These men had been sent from the Pharisees;

"This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

But he who acts up to the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be shown to have been done in dependence upon God.

(For John had not yet been imprisoned).

You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.'

Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.

One man who was there had been afflicted for thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat."

But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.

And after this they were glad to take him into the boat; and the boat at once arrived off the shore, for which they had been making.

The people who remained on the further side of the Sea had seen that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone into it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.

It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

"What! Have you been led astray too?" the Pharisees replied.

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

"Does our Law pass judgment on a man without first giving him a hearing, and finding out what he has been doing?"

"Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus.

"We are descendants of Abraham," was their answer, "and have never yet been in slavery to any one. What do you mean by saying 'you will be set free'?"

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

They took the man, who had been blind, to the Pharisees.

The Jews, however, refused to believe that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called his parents and questioned them.

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

If this man had not been from God, he could not have done anything at all."

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

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

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

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she threw herself at his feet. "Master," she exclaimed, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

The dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in a winding- sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. "Set him free," said Jesus, "and let him go."

His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

The crowd of bystanders, who heard the sound, said that it was thundering. Others said: "An angel has been speaking to him."

In fulfillment of the words of the Prophet Isaiah, where he says--'Lord, who has believed our teaching? And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?'

When he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments and taken his place, he spoke to them again. "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?" he asked.

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: "Now the Son of Man has been exalted, and God has been exalted through him;

In my Father's Home there are many dwellings. If it had not been so, I should have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you.

"Have I been all this time among you," said Jesus, "and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, 'Show us the Father'?

You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

Yes, and you also are to bear testimony, because you have been with me from the first.

Although your hearts are full of sorrow at all that I have been saying to you.

As to Judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned.

In truth I tell you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will suffer pain, but your pain shall turn to joy.

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

Whilst I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul--in fulfillment of Scripture.

"If he had not been a criminal, we should not have given him up to you," they answered.

"My kingly power," replied Jesus, "is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the Jews; but my kingly power is not from the world."

"You would have no power over me at all," answered Jesus, "if it had not been given you from above; and, therefore, the man who betrayed me to you is guilty of the greater sin."

Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;

At the place where Jesus had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a newly-made tomb in which no one had ever been laid.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been removed.

And the cloth which had been upon Jesus' head, not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up on one side, separately.

And perceived two angels clothed in white sitting there, where the body of Jesus had been lying, one where the head and the other where the feet had been.

In the evening of the same day--the first day of the week-- after the doors of the room, in which the disciples were, had been shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said: "Peace be with you";

If you remit any one's sins, they have been remitted; and, if you retain them, they have been retained."

A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas with them. After the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood among them, and said: "Peace be with you."

But these have been recorded that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God--and that, through your belief in his Name, you may have Life.

So Simon Peter got into the boat and hauled the net ashore full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and yet, although there were so many, the net had not been torn.