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Then after this, he said to his disciples, "Let us go to Judea again."

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go."

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me."

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself.

Jesus replied, "The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you."

So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.