When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him: "Zacchaeus, be quick and come down, for I must stop at your house to-day."

So Zacchaeus got down quickly, and joyfully welcomed him.

But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master: "Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded any one of anything, I will give him back four times as much."

But his subjects hated him and sent envoys after him to say 'We will not have this man as our King.'

So the master said to him 'And you I appoint over five towns.'

Take away from him the ten pounds,' he said to those standing by, 'and give them to the one who has the hundred.'

'I tell you,' he answered, 'that, to him who has, more will be given, but, from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him: "Teacher, reprove your disciples."

On one of these days, when Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple Courts and telling the Good News, the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law, joined by the Councillors, confronted him,

And addressing him, said: "Tell us what authority you have to do these things. Who is it that has given you this authority?"

But they began arguing together: "If we say 'divine,' he will say 'Why did not you believe him?'

At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, that they should give him a share of the produce of the vineyard. The tenants, however, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

The owner afterwards sent another servant; but the tenants beat and insulted this man too, and sent him away empty-handed.

He sent a third; but they wounded this man also, and threw him outside.

'What shall I do?' said the owner of the vineyard. 'I will send my son, who is very dear to me. Perhaps they will respect him.'

But, on seeing him, the tenants consulted with one another. 'Here is the heir!' they said. 'Let us kill him, and then the inheritance will become ours.'

So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Every one who falls on that stone will be dashed to pieces, while any one on whom it falls--it will scatter him as dust."

Having watched their opportunity, they afterwards sent some spies, who pretended to be good men, to catch Jesus in the course of conversation, and so enable them to give him up to the Governor's jurisdiction and authority.

For they did not venture to question him any further.

David, then, calls him 'lord,' so how is he David's son?"

And all the people would get up early in the morning and come to listen to him in the Temple Courts.

They were glad of this, and agreed to pay him.

"Listen," he answered, "when you have got into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him into whatever house he enters;

When the time came, Jesus took his place at table, and the Apostles with him.

True, the Son of Man is passing, by the way ordained for him, yet alas for that man by whom he is being betrayed!"

But with you it must not be so. No, let the greatest among you become like the youngest, and him who leads like him who serves.

[Presently there appeared to him an angel from Heaven, who strengthened him.

While he was still speaking, a crowd appeared in sight, led by the man called Judas, who was one of the Twelve. Judas approached Jesus, to kiss him;

On which Jesus said to him: "Judas, is it by a kiss that you betray the Son of Man?"

Then, turning to the Chief Priests and Officers in charge at the Temple and Councillors, who had come for him, he said: "Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs?

Those who had taken Jesus prisoner took him away into the house of the High Priest. Peter followed at a distance.

Presently a maidservant saw him sitting near the blaze of the fire. Fixing her eyes on him, she said: "Why, this man was one of his companions!"

But Peter denied it. "I do not know him," he replied.

A little while afterwards some one else--a man--saw him and said: "Why, you are one of them!" "No," Peter said, "I am not."

About an hour later another man declared positively: "This man also was certainly with him. Why, he is a Galilean!"

And the Master turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the words that the Master had said to him-- "Before a cock has crowed to-day, you will disown me three times";

The men that held Jesus kept making sport of him and beating him.

They blindfolded him and then questioned him. "Now play the Prophet," they said; "who was it that struck you?"

And they heaped many other insults on him.

And they began to accuse him: "This is a man whom we found misleading our people, preventing them from paying taxes to the Emperor, and giving out that he himself is 'Christ, a King.'"

"Are you the King of the Jews?" Pilate asked him. "It is true," replied Jesus.

And, having satisfied himself that Jesus came under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who also was at Jerusalem at the time.

When Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly pleased, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, having heard a great deal about him; and he was hoping to see some sign given by him.

So he questioned him at some length, but Jesus made no reply.

Meanwhile the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law stood by and vehemently accused him.

And Herod, with his soldiers, treated Jesus with scorn; he mocked him by throwing a gorgeous robe round him, and then sent him back to Pilate.

And said to them: "You brought this man before me charged with misleading the people; and yet, for my part, though I examined him before you, I did not find this man to blame for any of the things of which you accuse him;

Nor did Herod either; for he has sent him back to us. And, as a fact, he has not done anything deserving death;

So I shall have him scourged, and then release him."

But they kept calling out: "Crucify, crucify him!"

"Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him."

And, as they were leading Jesus away, they laid hold of Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and they put the cross on his shoulders, for him to carry it behind Jesus.

There was a great crowd of people following him, many being women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him.

Meanwhile the people stood looking on. Even the leading men said with a sneer: "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is God's Christ, his Chosen One."

The soldiers, too, came up in mockery, bringing him common wine,

Above him were the words--'THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.'

One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us," he said.

But the other rebuked him. "Have not you," he said, "any fear of God, now that you are under the same sentence?

All the friends of Jesus had been standing at a distance, with the women who accompanied him from Galilee, watching all this.

And, when he had taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet, and laid him in a tomb cut out of stone, in which no one had yet been buried.

But, when in their fear the women bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them: "Why are you looking among the dead for him who is living?

But their eyes were blinded so that they could not recognize him.

And how the Chief Priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and afterwards crucified him.

But they pressed him not to do so. "Stay with us," they said, "for it is getting towards evening, and the sun in already low." So Jesus went in to stay with them.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him; but he disappeared from their sight.

They handed him a piece of broiled fish,

They [bowed to the ground before him and] returned to Jerusalem full of joy;

Through him all things came into being, and nothing came into being apart from him.

That which came into being in him was Life; and the Life was the Light of Man;

He came as a witness--to bear witness to the Light that through him all men might believe.

He was in the world; and through him the world came into being--yet the world did not know him.

He came to his own--yet his own did not receive him.

But to all who did receive him he gave power to become Children of God--to those who believe in his Name.

(John bears witness to him; he cried aloud--for it was he who spoke--"'He who is Coming' after me is now before me, for he was ever first");

No man has ever yet seen God; God the Only Son, who is ever with the Father--He has revealed him.

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him, and exclaimed: "Here is the Lamb of God, who is to take away the sin of the world!

It was of him that I spoke when I said 'After me there is coming a man who is now before me, for he was ever First.'

I myself did not know him, but, that he may be made known to Israel, I have come, baptizing with water."

John also made this statement--"I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of the heavens, and it remained upon him.

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him--he it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

The two disciples heard him say this, and followed Jesus.

"Come, and you shall see," he replied. So they went, and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four in the afternoon.

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him: "We have found the Messiah!" (a word which means 'Christ,' or 'Consecrated'.)

Then he brought him to Jesus. Fixing his eyes on him, Jesus said: "You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Kephas" (which means 'Peter,' or 'Rock').

The following day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. He found Philip, and said to him: "Follow me."

He found Nathanael and said to him: "We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and of whom the Prophets also wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph's son!"

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said: "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!"

And, when the wine ran short, his mother said to him: "They have no wine left."

He called the bridegroom and said to him: "Every one puts good wine on the table first, and inferior wine afterwards, when his guests have drunk freely; but you have kept back the good wine till now!"

This, the first sign of his mission, Jesus gave at Cana in Galilee, and by it revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem, during the Passover Festival, many came to trust in him, when they saw the signs of his mission that he was giving.

And because he did not need that others should tell him what men were; for he could of himself read what was in men.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: "Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one could give such signs as you are giving, unless God were with him."

No one has ascended to Heaven, except him who descended from Heaven--the Son of Man himself.

That every one who believes in him may have Immortal Life."

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

He who believes in him escapes condemnation, while he who does not believe in him is already condemned, because he has not believed in the only Son of God.

And the disciples came to John and said: "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, and to whom you have yourself borne testimony--he, also, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."