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7.

The Jews' Passover was near. So many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to each other as they were standing in the Temple :

"What do you think? that he will not come to the feast?"

The Chief Priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if any one learned where he was he should show it so that they might arrest him.

So six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was who had been dead whom he raised from the dead. They made him a supper there. Martha was serving. But Lazarus was one of those sitting at table with him. Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

So

"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred dollars and given to the poor ?" said Judah

Iscariot one of his disciples betray him.

"Let her alone," said Jesus.

who was going to

For Judah did not

say this because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and carried what

was put in it. “Let her alone so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me."

So the great body of the Jews got to know Jesus was there and they did not come for Jesus' sake only, but so that they might see Lazarus also whom he had raised from the dead. But the Chief Priests plotted to put Lazarus also to death. For because of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

The next day a great crowd which had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem and took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They cried:

Hozanna!

Blessed is the King of Israel who is coming in the name of the Lord.

When Jesus had found an ass he sat on it, as it is written:

"Fear not daughter of Zion!

Behold thy King coming,

Sitting on an ass's colt."

His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified then they remembered they were written about him and they I had done them to him. So the people with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised

him from the dead, bore witness.

12: 17.

For this reason

also the people went and met him because they heard he had done this sign.

"You see how you have gained nothing," said the Pharisees to each other. "Why, the whole world has gone after him."

There were some Greeks among those who habitually went up to worship at the feast. So they came to Philip who was of Bethsaida of Galilee.

"We want to see Jesus, Sir," they said.

Philip came and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

"The time for the Son of man to be honored has come," Jesus answered. "Most truly I tell

you :

Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground

and dies

It continues by itself alone.

But if it dies,

It bears a great deal of fruit.
He who loves his life

Loses it.

He who hates his life in this world

Shall keep it to life eternal.

If any one is serving me let him follow me,

And where I am there will also my servant

be.

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If any one is serving me,

Him will my Father honor.

Now is my soul troubled.

And what shall I say?

Father, save me from this hour.

But for this purpose did I come to this hour. Father, honor thy name.'

"I have both honored it," a voice then came from heaven, "and I will honor it again."

"It thundered," said the people who were standing by and heard it.

"An angel has spoken to him," said others.

"This voice has not come for my sake," Jesus said, "but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world. Now shall the Ruler of this world be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up out of the earth, will draw all mankind to myself."

But Jesus said this intimating by what kind of a death he was going to die.

"We have heard out of the Law," the people answered, "that the Christ continues forever. So how do you say: The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?"

"The Light is still with you a little while," said Jesus. "Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not come on you. For he who keeps walking in darkness does not know where he is going. Believe in the light while you have

the light so that you may become children of light."

Jesus said this and went away and hid himself from them. But though he had done so many signs before them yet they did not believe in him, so that the word of Isaiah the Prophet might be fulfilled when he said:

Lord, who hath believed our report?

And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed ?

So they could not believe because Isaiah again said:

He hath blinded their eyes,

And hardened their heart;

Lest they should see with their eyes,

And perceive with their heart,

And should turn

And I should cure them.

Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

And yet even many of the rulers believed in Jesus. But because of the Pharisees they did not say so, for fear of being excommunicated. For they loved the praise which comes from men rather than that which comes from God.

"He who believes in me," Jesus cried, "does not believe in me, but in him who sent me. And he who sees me sees him who sent me.

I have