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| 12:1 |
Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
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| 12:2 |
So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining [at the] [table] with Him.
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| 12:3 |
Mary therefore took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
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| 12:4 |
But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,
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| 12:5 |
"Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to poor [people]?"
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| 12:6 |
Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
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| 12:7 |
Jesus therefore said, "Let her alone, in order that she may keep it for the day of My burial.
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| 12:8 |
"For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have Me."
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| 12:9 |
The great multitude therefore of the Jews learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.
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| 12:10 |
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus to death also;
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| 12:11 |
because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.
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| 12:12 |
On the next day the great multitude who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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| 12:13 |
took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet Him, and [began] to cry out, "Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel."
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| 12:14 |
And Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,
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| 12:15 |
"Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, seated on a donkey's colt."
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| 12:16 |
These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.
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| 12:17 |
And so the multitude who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, were bearing Him witness.
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| 12:18 |
For this cause also the multitude went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
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| 12:19 |
The Pharisees therefore said to one another, "You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him."
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| 12:20 |
Now there were certain Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
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| 12:21 |
these therefore came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and [began to] ask him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
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| 12:22 |
Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came, and they told Jesus.
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| 12:23 |
And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
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| 12:24 |
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
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| 12:25 |
"He who loves his life loses it; and he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.
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| 12:26 |
"If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall My servant also be; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
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| 12:27 |
"Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, 'Father, save Me from this hour '? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
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| 12:28 |
"Father, glorify Thy name." There came therefore a voice out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
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| 12:29 |
The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, "An angel has spoken to Him."
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| 12:30 |
Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.
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| 12:31 |
"Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world shall be cast out.
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| 12:32 |
"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."
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| 12:33 |
But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.
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| 12:34 |
The multitude therefore answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"
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| 12:35 |
Jesus therefore said to them, "For a little while longer the light is among you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
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| 12:36 |
"While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light." These things Jesus spoke, and He departed and hid Himself from them.
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| 12:37 |
But though He had performed so many signs before them, [yet] they were not believing in Him;
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| 12:38 |
that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "LORD, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
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| 12:39 |
For this cause they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,
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| 12:40 |
"He has blinded their eyes, and He hardened their heart; lest they see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and be converted, and I heal them."
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| 12:41 |
These things Isaiah said, because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
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| 12:42 |
Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing [Him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue;
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| 12:43 |
for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.
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| 12:44 |
And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me does not believe in Me, but in Him who sent Me.
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| 12:45 |
"And he who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me.
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| 12:46 |
"I have come [as] light into the world, that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness.
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| 12:47 |
"And if anyone hears My sayings, and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
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| 12:48 |
"He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.
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| 12:49 |
"For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak.
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| 12:50 |
"And I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."
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