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Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division among them.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed him [to be the] Christ, he should be excommunicated from the synagogue.

And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not may see, and they which see may become blind.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep:

but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, as I told you.

Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?

The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

But when Jesus heard [it], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days [there].

The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.

nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into [it].

Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.