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7:14-53 Now as it was in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the temple and taught (openly). The Jews marvelled
at him saying "How does this man know (so much) since he has not been
trained (by the chief scribes etc)? Jesus therefore answered them and said
"My teaching is not mine but it comes from the one who has sent me. If anyone wants to do his will (the
One who sent him)
he will know about my teaching and whether it is from God
that I speak or from myself.
The one who speaks from himself is seeking his own glory. But the person who seeks the glory
of the one who has sent him, this man is true and there is no
unrighteousness within him. Did
not Moses give you the law? Yet
none of you carries out the law.
Why do you seek to kill me?" The crowd answered "You have a
demon. Who wants to kill
you?" Jesus answered and said
to them
"I did one work (the miracle of the curing the man at
the pool of Bethsaida?)
and you all make a fuss about it. It was because of this
(your narrowness?) Moses has given you circumcision, not that it was of
Moses but rather of the fathers. On a Sabbath you circumcise a
man. If a man receives
circumcision on a Sabbath and the law of Moses is not broken, why are you
angry with me because I made a man whole and healthy (on the Sabbath). Do not
judge according to "face" but judge according to what is
right." Now some of the
people who lived in Jerusalem
said "Is not this the man that they are seeking to kill? Yet here he is speaking openly and
they say nothing to him.
Perhaps indeed the rulers have known that this is the Christ? But we know where this man comes
from When the Christ comes, no
one will know about where he comes from." Therefore Jesus cried out in
the temple as he taught saying "You both know me and you know where I
come from. (But) I have not
come from myself. The one I have
come from is truth itself and him you do not know. I know him because I exist from him
and he has sent me." They
therefore sought to arrest him yet nobody laid a hand on him because his
hour had not yet come. Amongst
the crowd there were many who believed in him and said "When the Christ comes,
could he work any more signs that what this man has done?"
The
Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him. The chief priests and the Pharisees
sent attendants to arrest him.
Jesus therefore said "For a little time I am with you and then
I am going to the one who has sent me." You will seek me and will not find
me for where I am you cannot come." The Jews therefore said to
themselves. "Where is this
man about to go to that we will not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion
of the Greeks (around the Roman Empire)
and so teach the Greeks? What
does this word mean that he said "You will seek me and will not find
me and where I am you cannot come?"
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12:1-11
(Because people come to the Passover early to purify themselves), Jesus
came to Bethany (near Jerusalem) six days before the Passover.
This was where Lazarus
lived. He was the one whom
Jesus had raised from the dead. They
made a supper for him there and Martha served. Lazarus was one of those who were
reclining with him (Jesus).
Therefore Mary, taking a pound of pure and costly spikenard ointment
anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the odour
of the ointment. Now Judas the
Iscariot, one of his disciples and who was the one who was about to betray
him said "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and
given to the poor?" But he
said this, not because the poor mattered to him but because he was a
thief. He carried the bag that
was common to the group. Jesus
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