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The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

So again Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.

Jesus replied, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"

The Jews answered, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God."

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."

So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me.

I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God.

They were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?"

There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

"Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?"

Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial.