Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

Jesus answered, "You believe because I told you I had seen you under that fig tree? You shall see more than that."

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

and when the manager of the feast tasted the water which had become wine, not knowing where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn it knew), he called the bridegroom

and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

(John had not yet been thrown into prison).

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

He had to pass through Samaria,

and in so doing he arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar; it lay near the territory which Jacob had given to his son Joseph,

(his disciples had gone to the town to buy some food).

you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now espoused is not your husband. That was a true word."

on reaching Galilee, he was welcomed by the Galileans, who had seen all he did at the festival in Jerusalem ??for they too had gone to the festival.

Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum;

when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to improve; they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very time when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is alive"; and he became a believer with all his household.

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?"

So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat."

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away.

Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

followed by a large crowd on account of the Signs which they had seen him perform on sick folk.

Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

and embarking in a boat they started across the sea for Capharnahum. By this time it was dark, Jesus had not reached them yet,

Next day the crowd which had been left standing on the other side of the sea bethought them that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, who had left by themselves.

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up too, not publicly but as it were privately.

So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet.

(he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: ??as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

Nicodemus, one of their number (the same who had come to him before), said to them,

The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery, and making her stand forward

"Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple, but no one arrested him, because his time had not come yet.

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth;

Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.

Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes.

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?"

and went across the Jordan, back to the spot where John had baptized at first. There he stayed;

Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,

Now when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.

a number of Jews had gone to condole with Martha and Mary about their brother;

Said Martha to Jesus, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died.

Jesus had not entered the village yet, he was still at the spot where Martha had met him.

But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."

Now a number of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and who witnessed what he had done, believed in him.

But some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done;

(The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.)

Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead).

Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

Next day the great mass of people who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem,

(His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign.

Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival;

When they heard the sound, the people standing by said it had thundered; others said, "An angel spoke to him."

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;

so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

the Father had put everything into his hands ??knowing that he had come from God and was going to God,

then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now at last the Son of man is glorified, and in him God is glorified: [if God is glorified in him,]

They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin ??23 he who hates me hates my Father also.

They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen ??and they have hated ??both me and my Father.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear (the servant's name was Malchus);

and brought him first of all to Annas (for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year ??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interests that one man should die for the people).

Now the servants and the attendants were standing and warming themselves at a charcoal fire which they had lit (for it was cold), and Peter also stood beside them and warmed himself.

Then Annas had him bound and sent him to Caiaphas the high priest.

Said one of the high priest's servants, a kinsman of the man whose ear had been cut off by Peter, "Did I not see you with him in the orchard?"

They retorted, "If he had not been a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you."

(that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, by which he had indicated the kind of death he was to die).

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.

Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

Pilate had written an inscription to be put on the cross; what he wrote was, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Now many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus had been crucified was close to the city; besides, the inscription was in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and of the other man who had been crucified along with him;

accompanied by Nicodemus (he who had first come to Jesus by night) who brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds of it;

Now at the spot where he had been crucified there was an orchard, and in the orchard a new tomb where no one had yet been laid;

On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala went early to the tomb, when it was still dark; but as she saw the boulder had been removed from the tomb,

but that the napkin which had been round his head was folded up by itself, instead of lying beside the other bandages.

Upon this the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went inside too, and when he saw for himself he was convinced.

and noticed two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.

Away went Mary of Magdala to the disciples with the news, "I have seen the Lord!" ??telling them what he had said to her.

On the evening of that same day ??the first day of the week ??though the disciples had gathered within closed doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"

Peter turned round and saw that the favourite disciple of Jesus was following, the disciple who had leant on his breast at supper and put the question, "Lord, who is to betray you?"