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$8 I do not the works of my Father, believe me not: but if

I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me, 59 and I in him." Upon this they sought again to appre40 hend him but he escaped out of their hand; and departed again beyond Jordan, to the place where John at 41 first baptized and there he abode. And many resorted

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to him, and said, "John did no miracle: but all things 42 which John spake of this man were true." And many believed in him there.

CH. XI. Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Be-
2 thany, the town of Mary and of her sister Martha. (Now
it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with balsam †, and
wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was
3 sick.) His sisters therefore sent to Jesus, saying, "Mas-
4 ter, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick." And 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
5 glorified by it." (Now Jesus loved Martha, and her
6 sister, and Lazarus.) When he heard therefore that Laz-
arus was sick, he still abode two days in the place where
7 he was.
Then afterward he saith to his disciples, "Let
8 us go again into Judea." His disciples say unto him,
"Master, but now the Jews sought to stone thee: and
9 goest thou thither again?" Jesus answered, "Are there
not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day,
he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world:
10 but if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth; because
11 the light is not in him ‡." He spake these things; and
afterward he saith unto them, "Our friend Lazarus sleep-
12 eth; but I go that I may awake him." Then his dis-
13 ciples said, "Master, if he sleep, he will recover." But
That the Father is in me, and I in him.] "Compare ch. xiv. 10, 11: where this
union is said to consist in speaking the words, and doing the works, of the Father."
Newcome.

† the same Mary that anointed the Lord with ointment. N. See Campbells
Or, in it, i. e. in the world, Sce Wakefield.

Jesus spake of his death: yet they thought that he was 14 speaking of rest in sleep. Then Jesus said to them plainly, 15" Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes that I

was not there, that ye may believe: but let us go to him." 16 Then Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow

disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." 17 When Jesus therefore came, he found that Lazarus had 18 already lain four days in the sepulchre. (Now Bethany 19 was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: and many

of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, that they 20 might comfort them concerning their brother.) Then

Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went 21 and met him: but Mary sat in the house. Then said

Martha to Jesus, "Master, if thou hadst been here, my 22 brother had not died. But I know that, even now, what23 soever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee." Jesus 24 saith unto her, "Thy brother shall rise again." Martha saith unto him, "I know that he will rise again in the re25 surrection at the last day." Jesus said unto her, “I am

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the resurrection, and the life he who believeth in me, 26 though he die, yet he shall live and whosoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die. Believest thou 27 this?" She saith unto him, "Yes, Master, I believe

that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who was to 28 come into the world." And when she had said this, she

went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, "The 29 Teachert is come, and calleth for thee." As soon as Mary 30 heard this, she riseth quickly, and cometh to him. (Now Jesus was not yet come into the town; but was in the 31 place where Martha met him.) The Jews then, who were with Mary in the house, and were comforting her, when they saw that she rose up hastily, and went out, followed her, saying,She goeth to the sepulchre, that she may 32 weep there." As soon then as Mary came where Jesus was,

came. N. See W.

N. m. Master, N. t.

and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, "Master,if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died." 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews

also weeping who came with her, he groaned in spirit, 34 and was troubled, and said, "Where have ye laid him?" 35 They say unto him, "Master, come and see." Jesus 36 wept. The Jews therefore said, "See, how he loved 37 him." But some of them said, "Could not He, that opened the eyes of the blind man, have caused even that 38 this Lazarus should not have died?" Jesus therefore,

again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre. Now 39 it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus saith, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, "Master, by this time the smell is offensive*: for he hath been buried four days." 40 Jesus saith unto her, "Said I not unto thee that, if thou

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wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God ?” 41 Then they took away the stonet. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank thee that thou 42 hast heard me. I know indeed that thou hearest me always but because of the multitude who stand by I have said this, that they may believe that thou hast sent 43 me." And when he had said these words, he cried out 44 with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." [And] he that had been dead came out, having his hands and feet bound with grave-clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, "Loose him, 45 and let him go." Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things which [Jesus] did, be46 lieved in him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

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The chief-priests therefore and the Pharisees assembled a council, and said, "What shall we do? for this man 48 doeth many miracles. If we suffer him to go on thus, al!

See Campbell. He stinketh, N.

from the place where the dead was laid. R. T.

men will believe in him: and the Romans will come and 49 take away both our place and nation." Then one of

them, named Caiaphas, being high-priest that year, said 50 unto them, "Ye know nothing; nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, 51 and that the whole nation should not perish." Now he spake not this of himself: but, being high-priest that 1 year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for that nation : 52 and indeed not for that nation only; but that he should gather together also in one the children of God, who 53 were scattered abroad. From that day therefore they 54 took counsel together to kill him. Jesus therefore no

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longer walked openly among the Jews; but went thence to a country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim ; and continued there with his disciples.

And the passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the pass56 over, to purify themselves. Then they sought for Jesus, and said among themselves, as they stood in the temple, "What think ye? that he will not come to the 57 feast?" Now both the chief-priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should discover it; that they might apprehend him.

CH. XII. Six days then before the passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, that had been dead, whom 2 he had raised from the dead. Upon which a supper was made for him there; and Martha served: and Lazarus 3 was one of those that were at the table with him. Then Mary took a pound of very precious balsam of spikenard*, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of 4 the balsamt. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, [the son of Simon,] who was about to deliver

Campbell, ointment of liquid nard, N.

+ ointment, N.

5 him up, "Why was not this balsam* sold for three hun6 dred denarii, and given to the poor?" Now he said this, not that he cared for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the purse, and carried what was put in it. 7 Then said Jesus, "Suffer her against the day of my

8 embalming she hath kept this.

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For ye have the poor

with you always; but me ye have not always."

Now a great multitude of the Jews knew that he was there and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised 10 from the dead. So the chief-priests consulted that they 11 might kill Lazarus also; because by reason of him many of the Jews withdrew from them, and believed in Jesus.

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On the next day, a great multitude who were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Je13 rusalem, took branches of palm-trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried out, "Hosannat; blessed be the King of Israel who cometh in the name of the Lord." 14 Now when Jesus had procured a young ass, he sat on it; 15 as it is written, "Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy king cometh, sitting on the foal of an ass."

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Now these things his disciples understood not at first : but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they 17 had done these things unto him. The multitude then who were with him, bare witness that he had called Lazarus out of his sepulchre, and raised him from the dead. 18 For this reason also the multitude met him; because they 19 heard that he had done this miracle. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "Perceive ye that ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.”

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Now certain Greeks were among those who came up 21 to worship at the feast. So these came to Philip, that was of Bethsaida in Galilee, and besought him, saying,

* ointment, N.

Save now, N.

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