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Now he said this not out of concern for the poor, but because he was a thief — he was in charge of the common purse and used to steal from it.

You always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

A large crowd of Judeans learned that he was there; and they came not only because of Yeshua, but also so that they could see El‘azar, whom he had raised from the dead.

His talmidim did not understand this at first; but after Yeshua had been glorified, then they remembered that the Tanakh said this about him, and that they had done this for him.

Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless a grain of wheat that falls to the ground dies, it stays just a grain; but if it dies, it produces a big harvest.

He who loves his life loses it, but he who hates his life in this world will keep it safe right on into eternal life!

Yeshua answered, "This bat-kol did not come for my sake but for yours.

Nevertheless, many of the leaders did trust in him; but because of the P'rushim they did not say so openly, out of fear of being banned from the synagogue;

Yeshua declared publicly, "Those who put their trust in me are trusting not merely in me, but in the One who sent me.

If anyone hears what I am saying and does not observe it, I don't judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

For I have not spoken on my own initiative, but the Father who sent me has given me a command, namely, what to say and how to say it.

Yeshua answered him, "You don't understand yet what I am doing, but in time you will understand."

"Lord," Shim‘on Kefa replied, "not only my feet, but my hands and head too!"

Yeshua said to him, "A man who has had a bath doesn't need to wash, except his feet — his body is already clean. And you people are clean, but not all of you."

"I'm not talking to all of you — I know which ones I have chosen. But the words of the Tanakh must be fulfilled that say, ‘The one eating my bread has turned against me.'

But no one at the table understood why he had said this to him.

Shim‘on Kefa said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Yeshua answered, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow later."

Trust me, that I am united with the Father, and the Father united with me. But if you can't, then trust because of the works themselves.

In just a little while, the world will no longer see me; but you will see me. Because I live, you too will live.

Someone who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words — and the word you are hearing is not my own but that of the Father who sent me.