Now those men had been sent from the Pharisees.

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

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.

So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

So the Jewish leaders told the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

So they collected and filled twelve baskets full of pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

After they had rowed about 25 or 30 stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea toward their boat. They became terrified.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

Other small boats from Tiberias arrived near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

One of their own, Nicodemus (the man who had previously met with Jesus), asked them,

But the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. After setting her before them,

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.

Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, "This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?"

So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

The Jewish leaders did not believe that the man had been blind and had gained sight until they summoned his parents

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

The Jewish leaders summoned the man who had been blind a second time and told him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

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

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.

Martha told Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"

Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

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

As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

Although he had performed numerous signs in their presence, they did not believe in him,

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

By supper time, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

Simon Peter told him, "Lord, not just my feet, but my hands and my head as well!"

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

Then he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Do quickly what you are going to do!"

Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.

After Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "The Son of Man is now glorified, and God has been glorified by him.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

"So now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.

After Jesus had said all of this, he went with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

This was to fulfill what he had said, "I did not lose a single one of those you gave me."

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.

Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

Then one of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "I saw you in the garden with Jesus, didn't I?"

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped.

The soldiers twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, put it on his head, and threw a purple robe on him.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, and took his cloak as well. The cloak was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.

After Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head and released his spirit.

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

Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.

A garden was located in the place where he was crucified, and in that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed.

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

and that the handkerchief that had been on Jesus' head was not lying with the linen cloths but was rolled up in a separate place.