The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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

Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.

So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.