For the Law was given through Moses, love and truth came through Jesus Christ.

He found Nathanael and said to him: "We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and of whom the Prophets also wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph's son!"

Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?"

When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?

As for these people who do not know the Law--they are cursed!"

"Does our Law pass judgment on a man without first giving him a hearing, and finding out what he has been doing?"

Why, in your own Law it is said that the testimony of two persons is trustworthy.

And yet you have not learned to know him; but I know him; and, if I were to say that I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him, and I lay his Message to heart.

Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father--and I lay down my life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life- -to receive it again.

No one took it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This is the command which I received from my Father."

"Are there not," replied Jesus, "these words in your Law--'I said "Ye are gods"'?

Again groaning inwardly, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against the mouth of it.

"We," replied the people, "have learned from the Law that the 'Christ is to remain for ever'; how is it, then, that you say that the Son of Man must be 'lifted up' Who is this 'Son of Man'?"

"Why cannot I follow you now, Master?" asked Peter. "I will lay down my life for you."

"Will you lay down your life for me?" replied Jesus. "In truth I tell you, the cock will not crow till you have disowned me three times.

If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart,

"Whoever loves me," Jesus answered, " will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.

If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love.

Remember what I said to you--'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

And so is fulfilled what is said in their Law--'They hated me without cause.'

And took him first of all to Annas. Annas was the father-in- law of Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year.

"Take him yourselves," said Pilate, "and try him by your own Law." "We have no power to put any one to death," the Jews replied- -

"But we," replied the Jews, "have a Law, under which he deserves death for making himself out to be the Son of God."