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So then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but Mary stayed in the house.

Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha met Him.

But some of them said, "Could this Man, who opened the eyes of the man who was blind, not have also kept this man from dying?"

"But I knew that You always hear Me; nevertheless, because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me."

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

Now he did not say this on his own, but as he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, the one who intended to betray Him, said,

Now he said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he kept the money box, he used to steal from what was put into it.

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

The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not on account of Jesus only, but so that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.

But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also,

These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things for Him.

But Jesus answered them by saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

"Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

"Now My soul has become troubled; and what am I to say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

Jesus responded and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for yours.

But though He had performed so many signs in their sight, they still were not believing in Him.