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John 10

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Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, *he* is a thief and a robber;

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but he that enters in by the door is [the] shepherd of the sheep.

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To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

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When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

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But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

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This allegory spoke Jesus to them, but they did not know what it was [of] which he spoke to them.

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Jesus therefore said again to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

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All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.

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I am the door: if any one enter in by me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and shall find pasture.

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The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might 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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but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

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Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

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I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine, and am known of those that are mine,

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as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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And I have other sheep which are not of this fold: those also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.

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On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.

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No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father.

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There was a division again among the Jews on account of these words;

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but many of them said, He has a demon and raves; why do ye hear him?

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Others said, These sayings are not [those] of one that is possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes?

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Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at Jerusalem, and it was winter.

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And Jesus walked in the temple in the porch of Solomon.

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The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, Until when dost thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, say [so] to us openly.

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Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye do not believe. The works which I do in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me:

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but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, as I told you.

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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

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and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.

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My Father who has given [them] to me is greater than all, and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father.

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I and the Father are one.

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The Jews therefore again took stones that they might stone him.

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Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?

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The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

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Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

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If he called *them* gods to whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),

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do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am Son of God?

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If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not;

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but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know [and believe] that the Father is in me and I in him.

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They sought therefore again to take him; and he went away from out of their hand

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and departed again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptising at the first: and he abode there.

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And many came to him, and said, John did no sign; but all things which John said of this [man] were true.

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And many believed on him there.

John 11

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Now there was a certain [man] sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.

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It was [the] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

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The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

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But 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 glorified by it.

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Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

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When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.

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Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

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The disciples say to him, Rabbi, [even but] now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?

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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;

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but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

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These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.

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The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen asleep, he will get well.

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But Jesus spoke of his death, but *they* thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.

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Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.

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And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.

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Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let *us* also go, that we may die with him.

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Jesus therefore [on] arriving found him to have been four days already in the tomb.

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Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,

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and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.

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Martha then, when she heard Jesus is coming, went to meet him; but Mary sat in the house.

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Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

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but even now I know, that whatsoever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee.

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Jesus says to her, Thy brother shall rise again.

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Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.

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Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;

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and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this?

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She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.

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And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee.

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She, when she heard [that], rises up quickly and comes to him.

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Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha came to meet him.

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The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the tomb, that she may weep there.

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Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

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Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled,

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and said, Where have ye put him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.

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Jesus wept.

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The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!

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And some of them said, Could not this [man], who has opened the eyes of the blind [man], have caused that this [man] also should not have died?

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Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

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Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days [there].

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Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

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They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me;

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but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said [it], that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

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And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

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And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.

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Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him;

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but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

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The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.

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If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

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But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing

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nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

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But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

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and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

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From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.

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Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.

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But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

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They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?

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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him.

John 12

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Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead [man] Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among [the] dead.

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There therefore they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.

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Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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One of his disciples therefore, Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

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Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

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But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into [it].

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Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

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

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A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus whom he raised from among [the] dead.

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But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus also,

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because many of the Jews went away on his account and believed on Jesus.

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On the morrow a great crowd who came to the feast, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,

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took branches of palms and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, blessed [is] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord, the King of Israel.

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And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat upon it; as it is written,

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Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

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[Now] his disciples knew not these things 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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The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from among [the] dead.

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Therefore also the crowd met him because they had heard that he had done this sign.

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The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.

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And there were certain Greeks among those who came up that they might worship in the feast;

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these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him saying, Sir, we desire to see Jesus.

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Philip comes and tells Andrew, [and again] Andrew comes and Philip, and they tell Jesus.

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But Jesus answered them saying, The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit.

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He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

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If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be *my* servant. [And] if any one serve me, him shall the Father honour.

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Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But on account of this have I come to this hour.

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Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, I both have glorified and will glorify [it] again.

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The crowd therefore, which stood [there] and heard [it], said that it had thundered. Others said, An angel has spoken to him.

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Jesus answered and said, Not on my account has this voice come, but on yours.

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Now is [the] judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out:

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and I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all to me.

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But this he said signifying by what death he was about to die.

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The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who *is* this, the Son of man?

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Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

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While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may become sons of light. Jesus said these things, and going away hid himself from them.

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But though he had done so many signs before them, they believed not on him,

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that the word of the prophet Esaias which he said might be fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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On this account they could not believe, because Esaias said again,

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He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.

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These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and spoke of him.

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Although indeed from among the rulers also many believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess [him], that they might not be put out of the synagogue:

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for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.

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But Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me;

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and he that beholds me, beholds him that sent me.

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I am come into the world [as] light, that every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness;

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and if any one hear my words and do not keep [them], I judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

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He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.

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For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak;

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and I know that his commandment is life eternal. What therefore I speak, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.

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