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So Jesus said again, "I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep.

"I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them.

but you will not believe, for you are not my sheep.

Jesus said to them, "I have done many good deeds in your presence which the Father gave me to do; for which one of these do you want to stone me?"

As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God?

But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father."

Yet when he received the news that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.

Jesus said, "A day has twelve hours, doesn't it? So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of this world.

but for your sake I am glad that I was not with him, so that you will believe. Let us go to him."

But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask him for."

After Martha said this, she went back and called her sister Mary privately. "The Teacher is here," she told her, "and is asking for you."

I know that you always listen to me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe that you sent me."

Don't you realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?"

Actually, he did not say this of his own accord; rather, as he was High Priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish people,

and not only for them, but also to bring together into one body all the scattered people of God.

The time for the Passover Festival was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to perform the ritual of purification before the festival.

They were looking for Jesus, and as they gathered in the Temple, they asked one another, "What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?"

They prepared a dinner for him there, which Martha helped serve; Lazarus was one of those who were sitting at the table with Jesus.

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?"