The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only of the Father, full of grace and truth.

For of his fullness we all received, and grace upon grace.

For the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

He went out, carrying the cross himself, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"

Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Therefore the Jewish leaders, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.