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The gospel of John is my favorite book in the New Testament. It's just so interesting to read! Memorizing it shouldn't be too hard. It has 21 chapters with 879 verses. This is part 3 of 5 verse sets.
John
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But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
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Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.
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The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them
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and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.
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In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?"
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(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
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When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."
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Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.
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Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
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Jesus stood up straight and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"
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She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."
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Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
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So the Pharisees objected, "You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!"
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Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.
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You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.
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But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.
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It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.
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I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me."
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Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."
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(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)
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Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."
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So the Jewish leaders began to say, "Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"
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Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.
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Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
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So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "What I have told you from the beginning.
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I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."
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(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)
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Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.
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And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."
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While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.
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Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples
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and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
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"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been anyone's slaves! How can you say, 'You will become free'?"
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Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.
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The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.
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So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
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I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.
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I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"
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They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.
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But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!
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You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."
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Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
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Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
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You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
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But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.
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Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?
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The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."
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The Judeans replied, "Aren't we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?"
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Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father - and yet you dishonor me.
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I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.
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I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death."
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Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'
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You aren't greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?"
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Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'
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Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.
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Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad."
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Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"
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Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!"
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Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.
9
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Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
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His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?"
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Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.
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We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.
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As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
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Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man's eyes
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and said to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.
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Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"
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Some people said, "This is the man!" while others said, "No, but he looks like him." The man himself kept insisting, "I am the one!"
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So they asked him, "How then were you made to see?"
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He replied, "The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see."
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They said to him, "Where is that man?" He replied, "I don't know."
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They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.
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(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)
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So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, "He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see."
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Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.
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So again they asked the man who used to be blind, "What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?" "He is a prophet," the man replied.
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Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.
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They asked the parents, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"
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So his parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
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But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."
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(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
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For this reason his parents said, "He is a mature adult, ask him.")
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Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."
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He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing - that although I was blind, now I can see."
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Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?"
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He answered, "I told you already and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don't want to become his disciples too, do you?"
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They heaped insults on him, saying, "You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!
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We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"
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The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!
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We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.
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Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.
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If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
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They replied, "You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?" So they threw him out.
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Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
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The man replied, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"
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Jesus told him, "You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you."
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[He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.
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Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."
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Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, "We are not blind too, are we?"
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Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."
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"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
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The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
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The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
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When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
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They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."
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Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
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So Jesus said to them again, "I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.
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All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
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I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.
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The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
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"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
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The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.
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Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.
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"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me -
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just as the Father knows me and I know the Father - and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.
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This is why the Father loves me - because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.
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No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."
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Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.
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Many of them were saying, "He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?"
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Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"
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Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.
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It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon's Portico.
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The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
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Jesus replied, "I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father's name testify about me.
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But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.
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My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
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My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.
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The Father and I are one."
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The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.
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Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"
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The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."
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Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?
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If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),
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do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
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If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.
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But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me."
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Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.
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Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.
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Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"
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And many believed in Jesus there.
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Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
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(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
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So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, look, the one you love is sick."
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When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
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(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
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So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.
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Then after this, he said to his disciples, "Let us go to Judea again."
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The disciples replied, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?"
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Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
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But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
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After he said this, he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him."
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Then the disciples replied, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
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(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)
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Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died,
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and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."
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So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."
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When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.
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(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,
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so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)
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So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
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Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."
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Jesus replied, "Your brother will come back to life again."
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Martha said, "I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day."
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Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
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and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
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She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."
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And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."
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So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
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(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)
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Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.
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Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
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When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.
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He asked, "Where have you laid him?" They replied, "Lord, come and see."
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Jesus wept.
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Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"
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But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"
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Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)
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Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."
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Jesus responded, "Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?"
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So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.
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I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."
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When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
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The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go."
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Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.
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But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.
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So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.
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If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation."
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Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing at all!
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You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."
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(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,
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and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)
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So from that day they planned together to kill him.
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Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.
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Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.
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Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"
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(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)
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