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Yeshua used this indirect manner of speaking with them, but they didn't understand what he was talking to them about.

All those who have come before me have been thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

but the reason you don't trust is that you are not included among my sheep.

The Judeans replied, "We are not stoning you for any good deed, but for blasphemy — because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God ."

But if I am, then, even if you don't trust me, trust the deeds; so that you may understand once and for all that the Father is united with me, and I am united with the Father."

One more time they tried to arrest him, but he slipped out of their hands.

Many people came to him and said, "Yochanan performed no miracles, but everything Yochanan said about this man was true."

But if a person walks at night, he does stumble; because he has no light with him."

Yeshua said these things, and afterwards he said to the talmidim, "Our friend El‘azar has gone to sleep; but I am going in order to wake him up."

Now Yeshua had used the phrase to speak about El‘azar's death, but they thought he had been talking literally about sleep.

And for your sakes, I am glad that I wasn't there, so that you may come to trust. But let's go to him."

So when Marta heard that Yeshua was coming, she went out to meet him; but Miryam continued sitting shiv‘ah in the house.

Yeshua had not yet come into the village but was still where Marta had met him;

But some of them said, "He opened the blind man's eyes. Couldn't he have kept this one from dying?"

I myself know that you always hear me, but I say this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you have sent me."

But some of them went off to the P'rushim and told them what he had done.

But one of them, Kayafa, who was cohen gadol that year, said to them, "You people don't know anything!

and not for the nation alone, but so that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.

Therefore Yeshua no longer walked around openly among the Judeans but went away from there into the region near the desert, to a town called Efrayim, and stayed there with his talmidim.

But one of the talmidim, Y'hudah from K'riot, the one who was about to betray him, said,