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Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Then after that time he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.

Then his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well.

Jesus, however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking about taking rest in sleep.

When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she went down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled,

But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?

And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said,

And Jesus saw a young ass and took his seat on it; as the Writings say,

(These things were not clear to his disciples at first: but when Jesus had been lifted up into his glory, then it came to their minds that these things in the Writings were about him and that they had been done to him.)

Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

(Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)

And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.

He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.

Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,