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Jesus replied to them, "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?"

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."

But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness is not meant for death, but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let's go to him."

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

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."

nor are you taking into account that it is in your best interest that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish instead."

Now he did not say this on his own, but as he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

So they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple area, "What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?"

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

Therefore Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.

"For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."

These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things for Him.

For this reason also the people went to meet Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.

But Jesus answered them by saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

"Now My soul has become troubled; and what am I to say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

Jesus responded and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for yours.

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 this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,