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A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

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

He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep.

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, that I may take it again.

Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?"

The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God."

But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death; it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it."

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

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

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days."

So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish."

He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

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

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

This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it.

Jesus said, "Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial.

And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified.