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And it was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

The disciples then said to Him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be saved from his sickness."

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of actual sleep.

Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, so that we may die with Him."

Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died."

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

Mary then took a litra of perfume of very costly pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was going to betray Him, *said,

These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him, and that they had done these things to Him.

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke about Him.

And I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God,

*got up from supper, and *laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He tied it around Himself.

Jesus *said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

So when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.

I do not speak about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.'