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I am the true pastor: the true pastor exposes his life for the sheep.

(it was that Mary who perfum'd the Lord with ointment, after having wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

his two sisters therefore sent this message to Jesus; he, Lord, whom you love, is sick.

and then he said to his disciples, let us return to Judea.

upon which his disciples said, master, it is not long since the Jews attempted to stone you; and are you for going thither again?

then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he will recover;

then said Thomas, that is, Didymus, to his fellow-disciples, let us also go, that we may die with him.

Mary being come to the place where Jesus was, as soon as she saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not been dead.

when Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed from his heart, and was troubled,

then they took away the stone from the place where the corps was laid. and Jesus lifting up his eyes to heaven said, "father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

and he that was dead came forth, his body wrapt in a winding sheet: and his face bound about with a napkin. loose him, said Jesus, and let him go.

now this he did not say from his own motion: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation:

For which reason he did not afterwards appear publickly among the Jews; but retir'd into the country near the desart, to a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

whereupon one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was to betray him,

a great multitude of Jews knowing that Jesus was there, went thither, not for his sake only, but likewise to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

the people that were present testified, that he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead.

he that loveth his life, shall lose it: but he that sacrifices his life in this world, shall preserve it to eternity.

these things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

Then Jesus rais'd his voice, and said, he that believeth on me, does not so much believe on me, as on him that sent me.