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After saying this, she went off and secretly called Miryam, her sister: "The Rabbi is here and is calling for you."

Yeshua said, "Take the stone away!" Marta, the sister of the dead man, said to Yeshua, "By now his body must smell, for it has been four days since he died!"

So the head cohanim and the P'rushim called a meeting of the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do? — for this man is performing many miracles.

You don't see that it's better for you if one man dies on behalf of the people, so that the whole nation won't be destroyed."

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

They were looking for Yeshua, and as they stood in the Temple courts they said to each other, "What do you think? that he simply won't come to the festival?"

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.

Yeshua said, "Leave her alone! She kept this for the day of my burial.

The next day, the large crowd that had come for the festival heard that Yeshua was on his way into Yerushalayim.

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.

Yeshua gave them this answer: "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

"Now I am in turmoil. What can I say — ‘Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason that I have come to this hour. I will say this:

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

Now is the time for this world to be judged, now the ruler of this world will be expelled.

As for me, when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself."

for they loved praise from other people more than praise from God.

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.

It was just before the festival of Pesach, and Yeshua knew that the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. Having loved his own people in the world, he loved them to the end.

For I have set you an example, so that you may do as I have done to you.