It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

because they could see the signs he showed in what he did for the sick.

Your forefather Abraham exulted at the thought of seeing my coming. He has seen it, and it has made him glad."

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

If this man were not from God, he could not do anything."

"Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of that blind man, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

"Do not be afraid, Daughter of Zion! See, your king is coming mounted on an ass's colt!"

So they could not believe; for Isaiah says again,

You have heard me say that I am going away and am coming back to you; if you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

As it was cold the slaves and attendants had made a charcoal fire, and stood about it warming themselves. And Peter also was among them, standing and warming himself.

"Throw your net in on the right of the boat," he said to them, "and you will find them." They did so, and they could not haul it in for the quantity of fish in it.