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Others said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible for an evil spirit to make blind people see?

Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?

This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.

And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.

Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.

And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.

You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast?

Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.

The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,