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Therefore Yeshua no longer walked around openly among the Judeans but went away from there into the region near the desert, to a town called Efrayim, and stayed there with his talmidim.

so they gave a dinner there in his honor. Marta served the meal, and El‘azar was among those at the table with him.

Miryam took a whole pint of pure oil of spikenard, which is very expensive, poured it on Yeshua's feet and wiped his feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

The next day, the large crowd that had come for the festival heard that Yeshua was on his way into Yerushalayim.

His talmidim did not understand this at first; but after Yeshua had been glorified, then they remembered that the Tanakh said this about him, and that they had done this for him.

He who loves his life loses it, but he who hates his life in this world will keep it safe right on into eternal life!

And I know that his command is eternal life. So what I say is simply what the Father has told me to say."

It was just before the festival of Pesach, and Yeshua knew that the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. Having loved his own people in the world, he loved them to the end.

Yeshua was aware that the Father had put everything in his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.

So he rose from the table, removed his outer garments and wrapped a towel around his waist.

Yeshua said to him, "A man who has had a bath doesn't need to wash, except his feet — his body is already clean. And you people are clean, but not all of you."

After he had washed their feet, taken back his clothes and returned to the table, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

Yes, indeed! I tell you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is an emissary greater than the one who sent him.

One of his talmidim, the one Yeshua particularly loved, was reclining close beside him.

Don't you believe that I am united with the Father, and the Father united with me? What I am telling you, I am not saying on my own initiative; the Father living in me is doing his own works.

If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love — just as I have kept my Father's commands and stay in his love.

No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends.

I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn't know what his master is about; but I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours too.

However, when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own initiative but will say only what he hears. He will also announce to you the events of the future.