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25 The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Jesus presents a very clear choice: preserve your seed and lose it; plant your seed for his sake and keep it
through eternity. In giving everything away, he gained us. In Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, God brought
unimaginable life to the world – to you and to me. Jesus was the first of many seeds planted into the ground to
die.

Jesus was the first of many seeds planted into the ground to die

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me,
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the Father will honor him. “Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour?
But that is why I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have
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glorified it, and I will glorify it again!” The crowd standing there heard it and said it was thunder. Others
said, “An angel has spoken to Him!” Jesus responded, “This voice came, not for Me, but for you. Now is
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the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out. As for Me, if I am lifted up from the
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earth I will draw all [people] to Myself.” He said this to signify what kind of death He was about to die.
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34 Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah will remain forever. So how
can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?” Jesus answered, “The light will be
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with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one
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who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going. While you have the light, believe in the light so that
you may become sons of light.” Jesus said this, then went away and hid from them. Even though He had
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performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in Him. But this was to fulfill the word of
Isaiah the prophet, who said: Lord, who has believed our message? And who has the arm of the Lord been
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revealed to? This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said: He has blinded their eyes
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and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see with their eyes or understand with their hearts, and be
converted, and I would heal them. Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.
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42 Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not
confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue. For they loved praise from men more than
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praise from God. Then Jesus cried out, “The one who believes in Me believes not in Me, but in Him who sent
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Me. And the one who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. I have come as a light into the world, so that
everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness. If anyone hears My words and doesn’t keep
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them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects
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Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
49 For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what
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I should say and what I should speak. I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I
speak just as the Father has told Me.”
John 13:1-38 (HCSB)
1 Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father.
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Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. Now by the time of supper, the Devil
had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him. Jesus knew that the Father had
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given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God. So He got
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up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself. Next, He poured water into a
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basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him. He came to
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Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing
you don’t understand now, but afterwards you will know.” “You will never wash my feet—ever!” Peter said.
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Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.” Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not only my
feet, but also my hands and my head.” “One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash
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anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” For He knew who
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