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And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

When Jesus heard that, He said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him."

And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, "The Teacher has come and is calling for you."

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, "What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.

nor do you consider that it is expedient for us [fn] that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish."

Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

"Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii [fn] and given to the poor?"

This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.

But Jesus said, "Let her alone; she has kept [fn] this for the day of My burial.

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

Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-40">[xr] Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

For this reason the people also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign.