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A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.

Finally, he said to his disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

But his disciples objected. "Rabbi," they said, "only a few days ago the people in Judea were trying to stone you. Are you going there again?"

Thomas, nicknamed the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too—and die with Jesus."

When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days.

When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, "Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died."

And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, "Unwrap him and let him go!"

He did not say this on his own; as high priest at that time he was led to prophesy that Jesus would die for the entire nation.

As a result, Jesus stopped his public ministry among the people and left Jerusalem. He went to a place near the wilderness, to the village of Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus' feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance.

His disciples didn't understand at the time that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. But after Jesus entered into his glory, they remembered what had happened and realized that these things had been written about him.

Jesus replied, "Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory.

This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted: " Lord , who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?"

And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say."

Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.

So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist,

After washing their feet, he put on his robe again and sat down and asked, "Do you understand what I was doing?

As soon as Judas left the room, Jesus said, "The time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory, and God will be glorified because of him.

And since God receives glory because of the Son, he will give his own glory to the Son, and he will do so at once.

Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me.