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For I have come down from heaven,

For this is the will of my Father:

For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he?”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time.

You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

“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.”

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

“We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you—being a man—make yourself God.”

When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God,

I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

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,

and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.