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His disciples say to him, Raban, now have the Jihudoyee sought to stone thee; and again goest thou thither ?

His disciples say to him, Our Lord, if he sleep [fn] he is healed.

But Jeshu spake concerning his death; and they thought that concerning the repose of sleep he spake.

Thoma, who is called the Twin, saith to his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

But she, Mariam, when she was come where Jeshu was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying, If thou hadst been here, my Lord, my brother had not died.

But Jeshu, when he saw her weeping, and those Jihudoyee who came with her weeping, he was moved in his spirit, and was troubled,

And they took up the stone. And Jeshu lifted his eye upward, and said, Father, I give thanks to thee that thou hast heard me;

And he, the dead, came forth, his hands and his feet being bound with bandages, and his face in a linen cloth. Jeshu saith to them, Release him, and let (him) go.

But Jeshu himself walked not openly among the Jihudoyee, but went from thence to the region near the wilderness, to a region which was called Ephrem, and there conversed with his disciples.

But Mariam took a vase of balsam of the finest nard, great in price, and anointed the feet of Jeshu, and wiped with her hair his feet, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the balsam.

And Jihuda Scarjuta, one of his disciples, he who would betray him said,

He who loveth his life shall lose it; and he who hateth his life in this world shall keep it to the life which is eternal.

These said Eshaia when he saw his glory, and spake concerning him.

And I know that his commandments are life everlasting: these therefore which I speak, as said to me my Father, so I speak.

NOW before the feast of petscha, Jeshu knew that his hour was come, and that he should pass from this world unto his Father, and he had loved his who were in this world, and unto the end he had loved them.

But Jeshu himself, because he knew that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that from Aloha he had come forth, and unto Aloha he was going,

riseth from supper, and setteth his garments apart, and took a towel, (and) bound (it) upon his loins;

and he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and wiped (them) with the towel that he had bound upon his loins.

Jeshu saith, He that hath bathed needeth not but his feet only to wash, for all of him he hath cleansed: also you are clean, but not all of you.

But when he had washed their feet, he took up his garments and reclined, and said to them, Know you what I have done for you ?