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But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

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

for because of him many of the Jews left them and became believers in Jesus.

His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Now is my soul full of trouble; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this purpose I have come to this hour.

"It is not for my sake," said Jesus, "that that voice came, but for your sakes.

The crowd answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains for ever. In what sense do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is that Son of Man?"

"Yet a little while," He replied, "the light is among you. Be faithful to the light that you have, for fear darkness should overtake you; for a man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

For this reason they were unable to believe--because Isaiah said again,

Nevertheless even from among the Rulers many believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not avow their belief, for fear they should be shut out from the synagogue.

For they loved the glory that comes from men rather than the glory that comes from God.

And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

"What I am doing," answered Jesus, "for the present you do not know, but afterwards you shall know."

For He knew who was betraying Him, and that was why He said, "You are not all of you clean."

You call me `The Rabbi' and `The Master,' and rightly so, for such I am.

For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

"It is the one," answered Jesus, "for whom I shall dip this piece of bread and to whom I shall give it." Accordingly He dipped the piece of bread, and took it and gave it to Judas, the son of the Iscariot Simon.

Some, however, supposed that because Judas had the money-box Jesus meant, "Buy what we require for the Festival," or that he should give something to the poor.

Dear children, I am still with you a little longer. You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, `Where I am going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you.