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"Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.

"Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

"But the one who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.

"However, a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

"He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters the flock.

"He flees because he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.

Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?"

Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of those who are blind, can it?"

The Jews answered Him, "We are not stoning You for a good work, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."

Now a certain man was sick: Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, "Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days."

And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

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."

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council meeting, and they were saying, "What are we doing in regard to the fact that this Man is performing many signs?

Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

So they made Him a dinner there, and Martha was serving; and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

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.

Now he said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he kept the money box, he used to steal from what was put into it.

Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written: