Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;

"Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well."

Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.

"There is a boy here with five barley loaves and a couple of fish: but what is that among so many?"

So when they had crossed the Lake and had found Him, they asked Him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.

But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?

and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery. They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put the case to Him.

When however they persisted with their question, He raised His head and said to them, "Let the sinless man among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me.

Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill-- Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

(It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died.

After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you."

So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud there.

Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His feet and exclaimed, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit,

Availing herself of the opportunity, Mary took a pound weight of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over His feet, and wiped His feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.

Why do you question me? Question those who heard what it was I said to them: these witnesses here know what I said."

Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that time the disciple received her into his own home.

They spoke to her. "Why are you weeping?" they asked. "Because," she replied, "they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him."

Mary of Magdala came and brought word to the disciples. "I have seen the Master," she said. And she told them that He had said these things to her.

Then He said to Thomas, "Bring your finger here and feel my hands; bring you hand and put it into my side; and do not be ready to disbelieve but to believe."