But it is you who have stood by me in my trials.

So just as my Father has conferred a kingdom on me

For I tell you that this saying of Scripture must find its fulfilment in me: 'He was rated an outlaw.' Yes, that saying about me is to be fulfilled!"

And he went out of the city and up on the Mount of Olives as he was accustomed to do, with his disciples following him.

Those who were about him saw what was coming and said, "Master, shall we use our swords?"

And Jesus said to the high priests, captains of the Temple, and elders who had come to take him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a robber?

About an hour later, another man insisted, "This man was certainly with him too, for he is a Galilean!"

But Peter said, "I do not know what you mean." And immediately, just as he spoke, a cock crowed.

As soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the high priests and scribes assembled, and brought him before their council, and said to him,

"If you are the Christ, tell us so." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe me,

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

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."

Neither has Herod, for he has sent him back to us. You see he has done nothing to call for his death.

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

And he said to them a third time, "Why, what has he done that is wrong? For I have found nothing about him to call for his death. So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."

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!'

Then people will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us up!'

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

while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"

For there was a notice above his head, "This is the king of the Jews!"

One of the criminals who were hanging there, abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us too!"

as the sun was in eclipse. And the curtain before the sanctuary was torn in two.

The women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

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

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 we were hoping that he was to be the deliverer of Israel. Why, besides all this, it is three days since it happened.

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

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.

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?"

Look at my hands and feet, for it is I myself! Feel of me and see, for a ghost has not flesh and bones, as you see I have."

Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you??hat everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day,

And he led them out as far as Bethany. Then he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

And as he was blessing them, he parted from them.

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary.

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent up in the air, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

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."

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others.

It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true.

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

"Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

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."

for he himself declared that a prophet is not honored in his own country.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

The official said to him, "Come down, sir, before my child is dead!"

Jesus said to him, "You can go home. Your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and went home.

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheepgate a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five colonnades.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too."

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.

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.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

and he has given him the authority to act as judge, because he is a son of man.

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

"If I testify to myself, my testimony is not true.

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.

But the testimony that I accept is not from any man; I am only saying this that you may be saved.

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

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

But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid!"

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