No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down<n id="1" /> of my own free will.<n id="2" /> I have the authority<n id="3" /> to lay it down, and I have the authority<n id="4" /> to take it back again. This commandment<n id="5" /> I received from my Father.&#8221;p>

When Jesus heard this, he said, &#8220;This sickness will not lead to death,<n id="1" /> but to God&#8217;s glory,<n id="2" /> so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains<n id="1" /> in me &#8211; and I in him &#8211; bears<n id="2" /> much fruit,<n id="3" /> because apart from me you can accomplish<n id="4" /> nothing.

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, &#8216;The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining &#8211; this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.&#8217;

came to Jesus<n id="1" /> at night<n id="2" /> and said to him, &#8220;Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs<n id="3" /> that you do unless God is with him.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then some of the Pharisees began to say,<n id="1" /> &#8220;This man is not from God, because he does not observe<n id="2" /> the Sabbath.&#8221;<n id="3" /> But others said, &#8220;How can a man who is a sinner perform<n id="4" /> such miraculous signs?&#8221; Thus there was a division<n id="5" /> among them.

<p class="bodytext">Then the crowd responded,<n id="1" /> &#8220;We have heard from the law that <i>the Christi><n id="2" /> <i>will remain foreveri>.<n id="3" /> How<n id="4" /> can you say, &#8216;The Son of Man must be lifted up&#8217;? Who is this Son of Man?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders<n id="1" />),<n id="2" /> asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate<n id="3" /> gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.<n id="4" />

So the saying circulated<n id="1" /> among the brothers and sisters<n id="2" /> that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, &#8220;If I want him to live<n id="3" /> until I come back,<n id="4" /> what concern is that of yours?&#8221;p>