Hi, I'm Kelly Mowrer, and
welcome to His Words Are Life.
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Let's pray together.
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank You
for these precious and beautiful
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words that You have sent to us.
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We want to hide them in
our heart that we will not sin
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against You.
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We don't want there to
be anything that keeps us
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apart from You.
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We want to grow closer, and
closer to You, so please take
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these words and write them
on our very souls so that we can
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bare fruit to Your
honor and Your glory.
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We love You so much!
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Thank You.
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Amen.
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I'm reading today from the King
James Version, the gospel of
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John, Chapter 10.
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When we were last together
Jesus was telling the listeners
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that He was the good shepherd
that lays down His life for
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His sheep.
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We'll pick it up in Verse 18.
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No man taketh it from me,
but I lay it down of myself.
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I have the power to lay
it down, and I have power to
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take it again.
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This commandment have
I received of my Father.
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There was a division
therefore again among the Jews
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for these sayings.
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And many of them said,
He hath a devil, and is mad;
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why hear ye him?
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Others said, These are not the
words of him that hath a devil.
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Can a devil open
the eyes of the blind?
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And it was at Jerusalem
the feast of the dedication,
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and it was winter.
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And Jesus walked in the
temple in Solomon's porch.
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Then came the Jews round
about him, and said unto him,
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How long dost
thou make us to doubt?
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If thou be the
Christ, tell us plainly.
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Jesus answered them, I
told you, and ye believed not:
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the works that I do
in my Father's name,
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they bear witness of me.
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But ye believe not,
because ye are not of my sheep,
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as I said unto 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 unto them eternal
life; and they shall never
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perish, neither shall any
man pluck them out of my hand.
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My Father, which gave them me,
is greater than all; and no man
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is able to pluck them
out of my Father's hand.
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I and my Father are one.
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Then the Jews took up
stones again to stone him.
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Jesus answered them, Many good
works have I showed you from my
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Father; for which of
those works do ye stone me?
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The Jews answered him, saying,
For a good work we stone thee
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not; but for blasphemy; and
because that thou, being a man,
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makest thyself God
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Jesus answered them, Is it
not written in your law, I said,
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Ye are gods?
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If he called them gods,
unto whom the word of God came,
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and the scripture cannot
be broken; say ye of him,
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whom the Father hath sanctified,
and sent into the world,
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Thou blasphemest; because
I said, I am the 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, though ye believe
not me, believe the works:
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that ye may know, and believe,
that the Father is in me,
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and I in Him.
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Therefore they sought again
to take him: but he escaped out
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of their hand, and went away
again beyond Jordan into the
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place where John at first
baptized; and there he abode.
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And many resorted unto him,
and said, John did no miracle:
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but all things that John
spake of this man were true.
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And many believed on him there.
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I'm reading from the King James
Version, the gospel of John,
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and we're now
starting with Chapter 11.
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Now a certain man was
sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany,
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the town of Mary
and her sister Martha.
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(It was that Mary which
anointed the Lord with ointment,
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and wiped his feet with
her hair, whose brother Lazarus
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was sick.)
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Therefore his sisters sent
unto him, saying, Lord, behold,
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he whom thou lovest is sick.
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When Jesus heard that, he said,
This sickness is not unto death,
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but for the glory of
God, that the Son of God
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might be glorified thereby.
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Now Jesus loved Martha,
and her sister, and Lazarus.
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When he had heard therefore
that he was sick, he abode two
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days still in the
same place where he was.
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Then after that saith to
his disciples, Let us go into
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Judea again.
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His disciples say unto him,
Master, the Jews of late sought
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to stone thee; and
goest thou thither again?
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Jesus answered, Are there
not twelve hours in the day?
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If any man walk in the day, he
stumbleth not, because he seeth
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the light of this world.
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But if a man walk in the night,
he stumbleth, because there is
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no light in him.
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These things said he: and
after that he saith unto them,
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Our friend Lazarus sleepeth;
but I go, that I may awake him
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out of sleep.
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Then said his disciples, Lord,
if he sleep, he shall do well.
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Howbeit Jesus spake of his
death: but they thought that he
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had spoken of
taking of rest in sleep.
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Then said Jesus unto
them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
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And I am glad for your
sakes that I was not there,
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to the intent ye may believe;
nevertheless let us go unto him.
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Then said Thomas, which is
called Didymus, unto his fellow
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disciples, Let us also
go, that we may die with him.
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Then when Jesus came, he found
that he had lain in the grave
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four days already.
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Now Bethany was nigh
unto Jerusalem, about fifteen
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furlongs off: and many of the
Jews came to Martha and Mary,
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to comfort them
concerning their brother.
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Then Martha, as soon as she
heard that Jesus was coming,
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went and met him: but
Mary sat still in the house.
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Then said Martha unto Jesus,
Lord, if thou hadst been here,
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my brother had not died.
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But I know, that even now,
whatsoever thou wilt ask of God,
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God will give it thee.
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Jesus said unto her, Thy
brother shall rise again.
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Martha said unto him, I know
that he shall rise again in the
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resurrection at the last day.
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Jesus said unto her, I am
the resurrection, and the life:
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he that believeth in
me, though he were dead,
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yet shall he live: and
whosoever liveth and believeth
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in me shall never die.
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Believest thou this?
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She saith unto him, Yea, Lord:
I believe that thou art the
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Christ, the Son of God, which
should come into the world.
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And when she had so said, she
went her way, and called Mary
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her sister secretly,
saying, The Master is come,
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and calleth for thee.
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As soon as she heard
that, she arose quickly,
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and came unto him.
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Now Jesus was not yet come into
the town, but was in that place
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where Martha met him.
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The Jews then which
were with her in the house,
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and comforted her, when they saw
Mary, that she rose up hastily
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and went out, followed her,
saying, She goeth unto the grave
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to weep there.
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Then when Mary was come
where Jesus was, and saw him,
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she fell down at his
feet, saying unto him, Lord,
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if thou hadst been
here, my brother had not died.
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When Jesus therefore saw
her weeping, and the Jews also
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weeping which came with
her, he groaned in the spirit,
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and was troubled, and
said, Where have ye laid him?
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They said unto
him, Lord, come and see.
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Jesus wept.
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Then said the Jews,
Behold how he loved him!
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And some of them said, Could not
this man, which opened the eyes
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of the blind, have
caused that even this man should
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not have died?
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Jesus therefore again groaning
in himself cometh to the grave.
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It was a cave, and
a stone lay upon it.
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Jesus said, Take
ye away the stone.
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Martha, the sister of him that
was dead, saith unto him, Lord,
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by this time he stinketh:
for he hath been dead four days.
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Jesus saith unto her,
Said I not unto thee, that,
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if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God?
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Then they took away the
stone from the place where the
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dead was laid.
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And Jesus lifted up his eyes,
and said, Father, I thank thee
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that thou hast heard me.
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And I knew that thou hearest
me always: but because of the
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people which stand by I said it,
that they may believe that thou
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hast sent me.
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And when he thus had spoken,
he cried with a loud voice,
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Lazarus, come forth.
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And he that was dead came forth,
bound hand and foot with grave-
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clothes: and his face was
bound about with a napkin.
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Jesus said unto them,
Loose him, and let him go.
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Then many of the Jews which came
to Mary, and had seen the things
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which Jesus
did, believed on him.
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But some of them went their ways
to the Pharisees, and told them
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what things Jesus had done.
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Then gathered the chief priests
and the Pharisees a council,
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and said, What do we? for
this man doeth many miracles.
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If we let him thus alone,
all men will believe on him:
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and the Romans shall
come and take away both our
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place and nation.
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And one of them, named Caiaphas,
being the high priest that same
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year, said unto them, Ye know
nothing at all, nor consider
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that it is expedient for us,
that one man should die for the
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people, and that the
whole nation perish not.
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And this spake he not of
himself: but being high priest
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that year, he prophesied
that Jesus should die for that
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nation; and not for that nation
only, but that also he should
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gather together in one
the children of God that were
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scattered abroad.
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Then from that day forth they
took counsel together for to put
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him to death.
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Jesus therefore walked no
more openly among the Jews;
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but went thence unto a
country near to the wilderness,
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into a city called
Ephraim, and there continued
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with his disciples.
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And the Jews' Passover was nigh
at hand: and many went out of
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the country up to
Jerusalem before the Passover,
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to purify themselves.
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Then sought they for Jesus,
and spake among themselves,
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as they stood in the temple,
What think ye, that he will not
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come to the feast?
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Now both the chief priests
and the Pharisees had given a
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commandment, that, if
any man knew where he were,
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he should show it,
that they might take him.
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I'm reading from the
gospel of John, Chapter 12.
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Then Jesus six days before
the Passover came to Bethany,
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where Lazarus was which
had been dead, whom he raised
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from the dead.
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There they made him a supper;
and Martha served: but Lazarus
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was one of them that
sat at the table with him.
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Then took Mary a pound
of ointment of spikenard,
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very costly, and anointed
the feet of Jesus, and wiped his
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feet with her hair: and the
house was filled with the odor
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of the ointment.
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Then saith one of his disciples,
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
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which should betray him,
Why was not this ointment sold
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for three hundred
pence, and given to the poor?
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This he said, not that he cared
for the poor; but because he was
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a thief, and had the bag,
and bare what was put therein.
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Then said Jesus, Let her alone:
against the day of my burying
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hath she kept this.
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For the poor always ye have with
you; but me ye have not always.
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Much people of the Jews
therefore knew that he was
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there: and they came not for
Jesus' sake only, but that they
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might see Lazarus also, whom
he had raised from the dead.
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But the chief priests consulted
that they might put Lazarus
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also to death; because that by
reason of him many of the Jews
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went away, and
believed on Jesus.
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On the next day much people
that were come to the feast,
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when they heard that
Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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took branches of palm trees,
and went forth to meet him,
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and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is
the King of Israel that cometh
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in the name of the Lord.
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And Jesus, when he had
found a young ass, sat thereon;
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as it is written, Fear not
daughter of Zion: behold thy
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King cometh,
sitting on an ass's colt.
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These things understood
not his disciples at the first:
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but when Jesus was glorified,
then remembered they that these
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things were written of him,
and that they had done these
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things unto him.
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The people therefore that was
with him when he called Lazarus
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out of his grave, and raised
him from the dead, bare record.
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For this cause the people also
met him, for that they heard
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that he had done this miracle.
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The Pharisees therefore said
among themselves, Perceive ye
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how ye prevail nothing? behold,
the world is gone after him.
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And there were certain Greeks
among them that came up to
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worship at the feast: the
same came therefore to Philip,
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which was of Bethsaida
of Galilee, and desired him,
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saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
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Philip cometh and telleth
Andrew: and again Andrew and
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Philip tell Jesus.
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And Jesus answered them,
saying, The hour is come,
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that the Son of man
should be glorified.
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Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into
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the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die,
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it bringeth forth much fruit.
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He that loveth his life shall
lose it; and he that hateth his
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life in this world shall
keep it unto life eternal.
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If any man serve me, let
him follow me; and where I am,
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there shall also my
servant be: if any man serve me,
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him will my Father honor.
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Thank you for being with me.
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Please join me again next time.
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