Now Philip belonged to Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

Afterward he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and remained there a few days.

There is no one gone up to heaven, except the One who came down from heaven??he Son of man himself.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son who was lying at the point of death.

"Sir," said the king's officer, "come down before my little boy dies."

And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.

"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."

and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

"those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation.

Then Jesus walked up the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Jewish feast, the Passover, was at hand.

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

When evening came on, his disciples went down to the sea.

"for the bread of God is what come down from heaven, and gives life to the world."

"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking.

"Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

"This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die.

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

"This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever."

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them,

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

Then he stooped down again, and again began to write on the ground.

"If this man had not come of God he could have done nothing."

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

"The Father loves me for this, because I am laying down my life that I may take it again.

"No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

Upon this Thomas, who was called "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, that we may die with him."

but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,

His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written concerning him, and what they had done to him.

For this reason, too, the crowd came to meet him, because they had heard about this sign which he had done.

for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.

"Why cannot I follow you now, Master?" said Peter. "I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered him.

"Your life you will lay down for me? In solemn truth I tell you, the cock shall not crow before you have three times disowned me."

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

"If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.

"I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

Stooping down he glanced in and saw the linen wrapping lying on the ground; but he did not go in.

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called "The Twin." was not with them when Jesus came.

There were together Simon Peter and Thomas, called "The Twin," and Nathanael, from Cana of Galilee, and the two sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.