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We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.

So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."

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

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

So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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

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

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to 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 from God and was going back to God,