(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

But he had to pass through Samaria.

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed along with his entire household.

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

But some boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, "How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?"

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, "He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see."

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

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

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

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.)

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go."

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

But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

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

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.

The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light." When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he should betray Jesus.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.

So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?

When he had said these things, Jesus was greatly distressed in spirit, and testified, "I tell you the solemn truth, one of you will betray me."

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you --

And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

When he had said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley. There was an orchard there, and he and his disciples went into it.

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.)

He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, "I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear. (Now the slave's name was Malchus.)

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

(Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire they had made, warming themselves because it was cold. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.)

When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest's officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the orchard with him?"

(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)

Pilate asked, "What is truth?" When he had said this he went back outside to the Jewish leaders and announced, "I find no basis for an accusation against him.

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged severely.

Pilate also had a notice written and fastened to the cross, which read: "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, "It is completed!" Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.

Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance.

Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went right into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen cloth lying there,

and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus' head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself.

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed.