So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor.

And they asked him, "Master, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you show no favor, but teach the way of God in sincerity.

"Show me a denarius. Whose head and title does it bear?" They said, "The emperor's."

So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more.

For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God.

For they did not dare to ask him any more questions.

"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and love to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets??47 men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get all the heavier sentence!"

For they all gave from what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in all she had to live on."

Then they asked him, "Master, when will this happen, and what will be the sign that it is going to take place?"

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends and they will put some of you to death,

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great power and glory.

As soon as they put out their leaves, you see them and you know without being told that summer is coming.

And the high priests and the scribes were casting about for a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.

And they were delighted and agreed to pay him for it.

They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"

So they went and found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover supper.

And they began to discuss with one another which of them it was who was going to do this.

And he said to them, "When I sent you out without any purse or bag or shoes, was there anything you needed?" They said, "No, nothing."

But they said, "See, Master, here are two swords!" And he said to them, "Enough of this!"

Then they arrested him and led him away and took him to the house of the high priest. And Peter followed at a distance.

And they kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat about it, and Peter sat down among them.

and they blindfolded him, and asked him, "Show that you are a prophet! Who was it that struck you?"

And they said many other abusive things to him.

And they all said, "Are you the Son of God then?" And he said to them, "I am, as you say!"

Then they said, "What do we want of testimony now? We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

Then they arose in a body and took him to Pilate,

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."

But they persisted and said, "He is stirring up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He began in Galilee and he has come here."

And Herod and his guards made light of him and ridiculed him, and they put a gorgeous robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

And Herod and Pilate became friends that day, for they had been at enmity before.

But they all shouted out, "Kill him, and release Barabbas for us!"

But they kept on shouting, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

But they persisted with loud outcries in demanding that he be crucified, and their shouting won.

And Pilate pronounced sentence that what they asked for should be done.

He released the man they asked for, who had been put in prison for riot and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.

for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!'

For if this is what they do when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

When they reached the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, with the criminals one at his right and one at his left.

And they divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots for them,

And all the crowds that had collected for the sight, when they saw what happened, returned to the city beating their breasts.

Then they went home, and prepared spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested in obedience to the commandment,

but on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking spices they had prepared.

But they found the stone rolled back from the tomb,

and when they went inside they could not find the body.

They were in great perplexity over this, when suddenly two men in dazzling clothing stood beside them.

Then they remembered his words,

and they went back from the tomb and told all this to the eleven and all the rest.

They were Mary of Magdala and Joanna and Mary, James's mother; and the other women also told this to the apostles.

But the story seemed to them to be nonsense and they would not believe them.

and they were talking together about all these things that had happened.

And as they were talking and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went with them,

but they were prevented from recognizing him.

And he said to them, "What is all this that you are discussing with each other on your way?" They stopped sadly,

And he said, "What is it?" They said to him, "About Jesus of Nazareth, who in the eyes of God and of all the people was a prophet mighty in deed and word,

But some women of our number have astounded us. They went to the tomb early this morning

and could not find his body, but came back and said that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.

Then some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

When they reached the village to which they were going, he acted as though he were going on,

but they urged him not to, and said, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.

Then their eyes were opened and they knew him, and he vanished from them.

And they said to each other, "Did not our hearts glow when he was talking to us on the road, and was explaining the Scriptures to us?"

And they got up immediately and went back to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and their party all together,

And they told what had happened on the road, and how they had known him when he broke the bread in pieces.

While they were still talking of these things, he himself stood among them.

They were startled and panic-stricken, and thought they saw a ghost.

But they could not yet believe it for sheer joy and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?"

And they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

And they went back with great joy to Jerusalem,

The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

So they filled them full. And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast."

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

After this Jesus went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

Just then his disciples came back, and they were surprised to find him talking with a woman, yet no one of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days.

and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."

So when he reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen everything he had done at Jerusalem, at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.

So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

because they could see the signs he showed in what he did for the sick.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were resting on the ground, and in the same way as much of the fish as they wanted.

When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So they picked them up, and they filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five barley loaves that were left after the people had eaten.

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

So Jesus, seeing that they meant to come and carry him off to make him king, retired again to the hill by himself.

When they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and approaching the boat, and they were terrified.

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

But some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where they had eaten the bread after Jesus had given thanks for it.

So when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were any longer there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of him.

And when they had crossed the sea and found him, they said to him, "When did you get here, Master?"

Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?"

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

Then they said to him, "Give us that bread always, sir!"