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Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded and came. For I came not of myself: but he sent me.

You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.

The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.

But how he now seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, we know not. Ask himself: he is of age: Let him speak for himself.

These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they who see not may see; and they who see may become blind.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.

A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.

And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?

The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God.

And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

And I am glad, for your sakes; that I was not there, that you may believe. But, let us go to him.

And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?

And when she had said these things, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come and calleth for thee.

For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in that place where Martha had met him.