Note in the pair of paragraphs above here how there is betrayal discussed in the first paragraph while in the second one some of those who have witnessed the rising of Lazarus go to the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem who then decide to 'sacrifice' Jesus. As well as the theme of betrayal both paragraphs here show a self-giving by Jesus.

One could wonder if, 2,000 years after the words of Jesus about giving his flesh to eat and his blood to drink it is any easier for someone to either understand this or to accept it.

Much of the first paragraph below appears to be repetition. But if (c/f the analysis of Reality Search) Jesus reflects the true order of the universe, it follows that people who try to pattern their lives on what he has set out will find a greater identification with Ultimate Reality. As Jesus c/f the cosmic Christ, exists within (but is not identical with) the universe, then it follows that his existence could also be found within something material and which he specifies. "Touching" this could help people become more linked in with his “way”.

5. Is doubted and outlawed		to be killed, sought after in temple, discussed
7:1-13	in Galilee . . not Judea		11:53-57	not openly

7:1-13 After these things (his offer of life-giving bread and the rejection of this by many of his disciples) Jesus continued to walk around Galilee. He did not want to go around Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jewish feast of the Tabernacles was near. His brothers therefore said to him "Leave here and go into Judea so that your disciples (those that had left him?) can see the things that you are doing. After all nobody would want to do these sorts of things in secret. but would rather seek to be in the open. If you are doing these things show yourself to the world." His brothers said this because they did not believe in him.

Jesus therefore says to them "My time has not yet arrived. But your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you. But it hates me because I show that its works are evil. You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet been fulfilled." And saying this to them he stayed on in Galilee. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly but as if in secret. Therefore the Jews were looking for him at the feast and they said "Where is that man?" There was much murmuring about him in the crowds. Some said "He is a good man." But others said "No. He deceives the crowd." But nobody openly spoke about him because of their fear of the Jews.

11:53-57 From that day on (after Caiaphas prophesied that one man would die for the nation) they (the Jewish council) considered that they might kill him. Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly amongst the Jews. Rather he went away from there into the country near the desert, to the city called Ephraim and he remained there with his disciples.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near and many people from the country went up to Jerusalem before the feast so that they might purify themselves. They therefore sought Jesus (there) and said to one another while standing in the Temple. "What do you think? It appears that he is definitely not coming to the feast?" Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given the order that if anyone knew where he was they should inform on him so that they might arrest him.

6. Is aware of death threats		ye seek to kill / she prepares me for day of burial
7:14-53	Temple / home		12:1-11	Bethany/home(?)

7:14-53 Now as it was in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the temple and taught (openly). The Jews marvelled at him saying "How does this man know (so much) since he has not been trained (by the chief scribes etc)? Jesus therefore answered them and said "My teaching is not mine but it comes from the one who has sent me. If anyone wants to do his will (the One who sent him) he will know about my teaching and whether it is from God that I speak or from myself. The one who speaks from himself is seeking his own glory. But the person who seeks the glory of the one who has sent him, this man is true and there is no unrighteousness within him. Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you carries out the law. Why do you seek to kill me?" The crowd answered "You have a demon. Who wants to kill you?" Jesus answered and said to them "I did one work (the miracle of the curing the man at the pool of Bethsaida?) and you all make a fuss about it. It was because of this (your narrowness?) Moses has given you circumcision, not that it was of Moses but rather of the fathers. On a Sabbath you circumcise a man. If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath and the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man whole and healthy (on the Sabbath). Do not judge according to "face" but judge according to what is right." Now some of the people who lived in Jerusalem said "Is not this the man that they are seeking to kill? Yet here he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Perhaps indeed the rulers have known that this is the Christ? But we know where this man comes from When the Christ comes, no one will know about where he comes from." Therefore Jesus cried out in the temple as he taught saying "You both know me and you know where I come from. (But) I have not come from myself. The one I have come from is truth itself and him you do not know. I know him because I exist from him and he has sent me." They therefore sought to arrest him yet nobody laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. Amongst the crowd there were many who believed in him and said "When the Christ comes, could he work any more signs that what this man has done?" The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him. The chief priests and the Pharisees sent attendants to arrest him. Jesus therefore said "For a little time I am with you and then I am going to the one who has sent me." You will seek me and will not find me for where I am you cannot come." The Jews therefore said to themselves. "Where is this man about to go to that we will not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks (around the Roman Empire) and so teach the Greeks? What does this word mean that he said "You will seek me and will not find me and where I am you cannot come?" Continued Over Page

12:1-11 (Because people come to the Passover early to purify themselves), Jesus came to Bethany (near Jerusalem) six days before the Passover. This was where Lazarus lived. He was the one whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They made a supper for him there and Martha served. Lazarus was one of those who were reclining with him (Jesus). Therefore Mary, taking a pound of pure and costly spikenard ointment anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Now Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples and who was the one who was about to betray him said "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" But he said this, not because the poor mattered to him but because he was a thief. He carried the bag that was common to the group. Jesus said Continued