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And it was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Then His disciples said, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.

But Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that He spoke of the sleep of slumber.

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was, seeing Him, she fell at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You were here, my brother would not have died.

Then they lifted the stone where the dead one was laid. And Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, Father, I thank You that You heard Me.

And the one who had died came out, the feet and the hands having been bound with sheets, and his face being bound with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Loosen him and allow him to go.

Then Jesus no longer walked publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near a deserted place , to a city being called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

Then taking a pound of ointment of pure, costly spikenard, Mary anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped off His feet with her hairs. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

Then Simon's son , one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was about to betray Him, said,

But His disciples did not know these things at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they recalled that these things had been written on Him, and that they did these things to Him.

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

Isaiah said these things when he saw His glory, and spoke about Him.

And I know that His command is everlasting life. Then what things I speak, as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.

And before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He should move from this world to the Father, loving His own in the world, He loved them to the end.

Jesus knowing that the Father has given all things into His hands, and that He came out from God, and goes away to God,

He rose up from the supper and laid aside His garments. And taking a towel, He girded Himself.

Then when He had washed their feet and had taken His garments, reclining again, He said to them, Do you know what I have done to you?

Truly, truly, I say to you, A slave is not greater than his lord, nor a messenger greater than the one sending him.

I do not speak concerning all of you; I know whom I chose out; but that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "The one eating the bread with Me lifted up his heel against Me." Psa. 41:9

But there was one of His disciples reclining at the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus loved.