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46 but some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things that Jesus had done.

47 Then, the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled a council, and said, What are we doing? for this man worketh many miracles:

48 if we let him thus alone, all will believe on him; and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and nation :

49 and one of them, Caiaphas, who was the high priest of that year, said to them,

50 Do ye not know, nor consider, that it is better for us that one man should die for the people; and not that the whole nation should perish : 51 and this he said, not from himself, but being high priest of that year, he prophesied ; 52 for, Jesus was about to die for the nation; and not for the nation only, but also, that he might gather into one, the scattered children of God:

53 from that day, therefore, they took counsel together to put him to death.

54 Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews; but went from thence into the country near the wilderness, to 2 Chron. xiii. a city called Ephraim; and continued there, with the disciples. 55 And the passover of the Jews was near at hand: and

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many went up from that country to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves : 56 they sought, therefore, for Jesus; and said among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?

57 Now, the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders, that, if any one knew where he was, he should declare it; that they might seize him.

CHAPTER XII.

THEN Jesus, six days be

fore the passover, came

to Bethany; where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead:

2 and they made a supper for him there; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of them that sat down with him at the table:

3 then Mary, taking a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, anointed the feet of c. xi. 2. Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

4 And one of his disciples, the Iscariot, who was about to betray him, saith,

5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

6 but this he said, not because he cared for the poor;

but, because he was a thief, and had the purse, and bare what was put into it:

7 then said Jesus to him, Suffer her to have kept it for the day of my burial:

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

9 Now, a great multitude of the Jews knew that he was there, and came, not for the sake of Jesus only, but also, that they might see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead:

10 but the chief priests consulted, that they might put Lazarus also to death;

11 because, on his account, many of the Jews went from them, and believed on Jesus.

12 On the next day, the great multitude that had come to the feast, having heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

13 took branches of palm trees, and went out to meet Luke xiii. 36; him, and cried, "Hosanna! and xix. 37. "Blessed is He who cometh

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they then remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.

17 The people, therefore, who were with him when he called Lazarus out of the grave, and raised him from the dead, bare witness of him;

18 and for this cause the multitude met him, because they heard that he had wrought that miracle:

19 the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, Ye see that ye prevail nothing: the world is gone after him.

20 And there were some Greeks among those that came up to worship at the feast:

21 these, therefore, came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we wish to see Jesus: 22 Philip goeth and telleth Andrew; and Andrew and Philip go and tell Jesus :

23 and Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, when the Son of man is to be glorified:

24 verily, verily, I tell you, Unless a grain of corn fall into the ground and die, it remaineth single; but, if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

25 He who loveth his life, will lose it; but he who hateth his life in this world, will keep it to life eternal:

26 if any one would serve me,

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c. iii. 14; viii. 18.

32 and I, though I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to me:

33 this he said, signifying by what death he was about to die :

34 the people answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ continueth for ever; and how sayest thou, That the Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?

35 then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you walk while ye have c. i. 5. the light, lest darkness over

come you: for, he who walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he goeth:

36 while ye have the light, trust to the light, that ye may become children of light.

37 These words spake Jesus, and departed, and concealed himself from them:

38 but though he had done so many miracles before them, they believed not on him:

39 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, "Lord, who Isaiah, lii. 1 "hath believed our report? "and to whom hath the arm "of the Lord been revealed?" 40 therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

41 "He hath blinded their Ib. vi. 9, 10. "eyes, and hardened their "heart; that they should not

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see with their eyes, nor un"derstand with their heart, "and turn to me, and I should "heal them :"

42 these words said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

43 Nevertheless, many even of the rulers believed on him; but they did not confess him, on account of the Pharisees, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

44 for they loved the praise of men, more than the praise of God.

45 And Jesus cried out and

c. xiv. 1.

i. e. the day
of the pass-

over.
Lev. xxiii.
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said, He who believeth on me, believeth not on me only, but on him also who sent me:

46 and he who seeth me, seeth also him who sent me.

47 I am come a light into the world, that he who believeth on me should not remain in darkness:

48 and if any one hearkeneth not to my words, and keepeth them not, I condemn him not: for I came not to condemn the world, but to save the world: 49 he who rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one to condemn him; the word itself that I have spoken, will condemn him in the last day: 50 for I have not spoken from myself; but the Father, who sent me, hath himself given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak :

51 and I know, that his commandment is eternal life: whatsoever, therefore, I speak, I so speak as the Father hath commanded me.

CHAPTER XIII.

NOW, on the day before

the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should return out of this world to the Father: having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them to the end;

2 and during supper, (the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,)

3 knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God;

4 he riseth from the supper, and layeth aside his garments; and taking a towel, he girded himself with it:

5 then he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded:

6 he cometh, therefore, to Simon Peter: he said to him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

7 Jesus answered and said to him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know afterward:

8 Peter saith to him, Thou shalt not wash my feet he answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me: 9 Simon Peter saith to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head:

10 Jesus saith to him, He who is washed, needeth not to wash more than his feet, but is altogether clean; and ye are clean, but not all:

11 for, he knew who would betray him; therefore he said, Ye are not all clean.

12 When, then, he had washed their feet, and had taken

V. 27.

his garments, and was again set down, he said to them,

Luke,xxii. 27. Know ye what I have done to you?

13 ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well; for so I am :

14 if I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet,

ye also ought to wash one another's feet:

15 for, I have given you an 1 Pet. ii. 21. example, that as I have done to you, ye also should do: 16 verily, verily, I tell you, The servant is not greater than his lord; nor he that is sent, greater than he who sent him:

Ps. xli. 9.

17 if ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but, that the scripture may be fulfilled, “He that eateth my "bread, hath lifted up his heel "against me.”

19 I tell you this now, before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.

20 Verily, verily, I tell you, He who receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me; and he who receiveth me, receiveth him who sent me.

21 When Jesus had said these words, he was troubled in spirit; and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I tell you, that you will betray me: 22 the disciples looked one on

one of

another, doubting of whom he spake:

23 and one of his disciples was lying at Jesus' bosom, whom Jesus loved:

24 Simon Peter, therefore, made a sign to him, and said; Tell, which is he of whom he speaketh?

25 he, therefore, who thus lay at Jesus' breast, saith to him, Lord, which is he?

26 Jesus answered, It is he to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it and when he had dipped the sop, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon :

27 and after the sop, Satan entered into him: then said Jesus to him, What thou doest, do quickly.

28 No one at the table knew why he said this to him;

29 though some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had said to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor :

30 he, then, having received the sop, immediately went out: and it was night.

31 When, therefore, he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him:

32 and God will also glorify him in himself, and will straightway glorify him.

33 Children, but a little while

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