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"DO NOT FEAR, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY'S COLT."

these people then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were making a request of him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

"Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

"Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

So Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; also, the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

"For I did not speak on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

got up from supper and laid His outer garments aside; and He took a towel and tied it around Himself.

"Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.

The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking.

"Little children, I am still with you a little longer. You will look for Me; and just as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you: 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'

"I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Jesus replied, "Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.

"In My Father's house are many rooms; if that were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you.

"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you also will be.

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you for so long a time, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

"After a little while, the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to see Me; because I live, you also will live.

"If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

"Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.

"Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they followed My word, they will follow yours also.

"They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.