Study Desk

“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to him.

The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they know his voice.

Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought he was speaking about natural sleep.

Then Thomas (called “Twin”) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go too so that we may die with him.”

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!”

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled.

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank

The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

Then Mary took a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped his feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray him), said,

His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.

The one who loves his life will lose it,