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Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) The Death of the Year (The Evangelist continues:) Now there came to be the winter Feast of Dedications in Jerusalem; and Jesus walked among the Temple columns in the portico of Solomon. The Jews (meaning Jewish leaders, per the Evangelist's standard usage) therefore surrounded Him and said to Him: "If you are the Anointed King, then tell us plainly!" Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. "The works which I am doing in My Father's name are testifying to Me. But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep--just as I have told you. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them; and they are following Me. Now I am giving them God's own life, and they shall by no means be dying-into-the-eon. "And no one shall be snatching them...

Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) The Good Portion Now at their going (says the Scholar), Jesus went into a certain village. [Footnote: Bethany, according to other story contexts--what we would call a suburb of Jerusalem over on the other side of Olivet Hill, where Jesus would often stay at night when He was in the area.] And a certain woman named Martha entertained Him in her home; and she had a sister named Mary, who sat at the feet of the Lord (i.e. learning as a disciple from a rabbi), hearing the Word of the Lord. Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together around Him when they had come from Jerusalem (say the Follower and the Disciple); and seeing that some of His disciples are eating their bread with impure hands... --that is, unwashed (explains the Follower for his audience), for the Pharisees and al...