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But whoever walks at night will stumble because there is no light."

And I am glad I was not there. I am happy for you because now you will believe in me. We will go to him now."

I know that you always hear me. But I said these things because of the people here around me. I want them to believe that you sent me."

But Judas did not really care about the poor. He said this because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the moneybag for the group of followers. And he often stole money from the bag.

Because of him, many Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus. That is why they wanted to kill Lazarus too.

That's why so many people went out to meet him—because they had heard about this miraculous sign he did.

This is why the people could not believe. Because Isaiah also said,

Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' divine greatness. So he spoke about him.

That is because what I taught was not from myself. The Father who sent me told me what to say and what to teach.

You call me ‘Teacher.' And you call me ‘Lord.' And this is right, because that is what I am.

Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or believe because of the miracles I have done.

"I can assure you that whoever believes in me will do the same things I have done. And they will do even greater things than I have done, because I am going to the Father.

The Helper is the Spirit of truth. The people of the world cannot accept him, because they don't see him or know him. But you know him. He lives with you, and he will be in you.

In a very short time the people in the world will not see me anymore. But you will see me. You will live because I live.

You heard me say to you, ‘I am leaving, but I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would be happy that I am going back to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

I no longer call you servants, because servants don't know what their master is doing. But now I call you friends, because I have told you everything that my Father told me.

They will do to you whatever they did to me, because you belong to me. They don't know the one who sent me.

And you will tell people about me too, because you have been with me from the beginning.

They will do this because they have not known the Father, and they have not known me.

I have told you all this now to prepare you. So when the time comes for these things to happen, you will remember that I warned you. "I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you then.