neither shall any one pluck them out of my hand. 29. My Father, who gave them me, is greater than all; and none is able to pluck them out of my Fa ther's hand. 30. I and my Father are one.

31. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me? 33. The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; because, being a man, thou makest thyself God.

34. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? (being judges, Psal. Ixxxii. 2. Exod. xxii. 28. God's vicegerents). 35. If they be called gods to whom the word (of au thority from) God came, and the scripture cannot be made void; 36. Say ye of him whom the Fa ther sanctified, (authorized), and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37. If I do not my Father's works, believe me not. 38. But if I do, tho' ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him.

39. Therefore they sought again to take him; but he escaped out of their hands, 40. And departed again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. 41. And many resorted to him, saying, John did no miracle; but all things that John spake of this man were true. 42. And many believed on him there. CHAP. XI.

CHRIST RAISETH LAZARUS.

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2. It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick, Luke vii. 36. 3. Therefore the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

4. When Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for God's glory, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 5. Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6. When he heard that he was sick, he abode two days still in the place where he was.

7. After that he saith to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again. 8. His disciples say to him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

9. Jesus anwered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world? (Man's life is his day, in which, if he does his duty every hour, he walks in the light, and stumbles not). 10. But if a man walk in the night (being out of his duty) he stumbleth, because then light (or wisdom) is not in him.

11. These things he said; and afterward he saith to them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go to awake him. 12. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep he shall recover. 13. But Jesus spake of his death, yet they thought he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

14. Then said Jesus to them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 15. And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that ye may believe; but let us go to him. 16. Then said Thomas, who was called Didymus, to his fellow disciples, Let us also go and die with him.

17. When Jesus came, he found he had lain in the grave four days already. 18. Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.

19. Now many Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

20. Then Martha hearing that Jesus was coming, went and met him; but Mary sat in the house. 21. Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. 22. But I

know, that even now, whatever thou wilt ask of God, he will give it thee.

23. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 24. Martha said to him, I know he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

25. Jesus saith to her, I am (the author and cause of the) resurrection and the (new) life, he that believeth in me, tho' he were dead, yet shall he live (and be happy); 26. And whoever believeth on me while he liveth, shall not die for ever; believest thou this? 27. She saith to him, Yea, Lord; I believe thou art the Christ the Son of God, (the Mediator) who should come into the world. 28. And having so said, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

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29. At hearing that, she went quickly to him. 30. Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. When the Jews who were in the house comforting her, saw she rose hastily and went out, they followed her, saying, She goeth to the grave to weep there.

32. Now when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

33. When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he groaned in spirit and was troubled, 34. And said, Where have ye laid him? They say to him, Lord, come and see. 35. Jesus wept.

36. Then the Jews said, Behold how he loved him! 37. And some said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have even prevented this man's dying.

38. Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. 39. Jesus said, Take away the stone: Martha, the sister of him who was dead, saith to him, Lord, by this time he putrifies, for he hath been Hh

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buried four days. 40. Jesus said to her, Said I not to thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? (even his glorious power).

41. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus looked up, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. 42. And I know that thou hearest me always; but because of the people who stand by I said this, that they may believe that thou hast sent

me.

43. And having thus spoken, he cried aloud, Lazarus, come forth. 44. Then he that was dead turned out, bound hand and foot with graveclothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith to them, Loose him, and let him go.

45. Then many Jews who came to Mary, seeing what things Jesus did, believed on him. 46. But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told what things Jesus had done.

47. Then the chief priests and Pharisees assembled a council, and said, What shall we do? for this man doth many miracles. 48. If we suffer him thus to go on, all men will believe on him (as) the king of the Jews, and rebel), and then the Romans will come and put an end to our place and nation.

49. But one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing, 50. Nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should rather die for the people, than that the whole nation should perish. 51. This he spake, not of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for (the believers of) that nation: 52. And not for (believers of) that nation only, but also that he should gather and unite the children of God that were dispersed (among the Gentiles).

53. Then, from that day, they consulted together

to put him to death. 54. Then Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence into a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

55. Now the Jews' passover was near. And many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

56. Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves as they stood in the temple, What think ye, will he not come to the feast?

57. Now both the chief priests and Pharisees had given a command, that if any knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

CHAP. XII.

MARY ANOINTETH CHRIST'S FEET.

THEN Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2. There they made him a supper, and Martha served: and Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

3. Then Mary took a pound of very precious ointment of liquid nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

4. Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Si mon's son, who would betray him, said, 5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6. This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a (covetous) thief, and got the purse to keep, and carried it, with the money.

7. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: as (a preparation) for the day of my burial hath she kept this. 8. For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always, (as I will soon leave you).

9. Now many of the Jews knowing he was