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He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and spoke of him.

and I know that his commandment is life eternal. What therefore I speak, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

[Jesus,] knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came out from God and was going to God,

rises from supper and lays aside his garments, and having taken a linen towel he girded himself:

Jesus says to him, He that is washed all over needs not to wash save his feet, but is wholly clean; and ye are clean, but not all.

When therefore he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, having sat down again, he said to them, Do ye know what I have done to you?

Verily, verily, I say to you, The bondman is not greater than his lord, nor the sent greater than he who has sent him.

I speak not of you all. I know those whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

Now there was at table one of his disciples in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus loved.

If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.

[Some] of his disciples therefore said to one another, What is this he says to us, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away to the Father?

His disciples say to him, Lo, now thou speakest openly and utterest no allegory.

Behold, [the] hour is coming, and has come, that ye shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and [yet] I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

These things Jesus spoke, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;

Jesus, having said these things, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, he and his disciples.