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Therefore Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's also go, so that we may die with Him!"

So when Mary came to the place 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. And Jesus raised His eyes, and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

Out came the man who had died, 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."

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

Mary then took a pound of very expensive perfume of 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, the one who intended 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 of Him, and that they had done these things for Him.

"The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

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 from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

got up from supper and laid His outer garments aside; and He took a towel and tied it around Himself.

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

Then, 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 for 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 am not speaking about all of you. I know the ones whom I have chosen; but this is happening so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'

Lying back on Jesus' chest was one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

"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, but the Father, as He remains in Me, does His works.

"If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love.