He came as a witness--to bear witness to the Light that through him all men might believe.

I myself did not know him, but, that he may be made known to Israel, I have come, baptizing with water."

John also made this statement--"I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of the heavens, and it remained upon him.

So he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the Temple Courts, and the sheep and bullocks as well; he scattered the money of the money-changers, and overturned their tables,

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

Jacob's Spring was there, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about mid-day.

And, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.

"Stand up," said Jesus, "take up your mat, and walk about."

The man was cured immediately, and took up his mat and began to walk about.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat."

"The man who cured me," he answered, "said to me 'Take up your mat and walk about.'"

"Who was it," they asked, "that said to you 'Take up your mat and walk about'?"

This made the Jews all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father--putting himself on an equality with God.

So Jesus made this further reply: "In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.

These statements Jesus made in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him, for his time had not then come.

"Neither the man nor the parents," replied Jesus; "but he was born blind that the work of God should be made plain in him.

Saying this, Jesus spat on the ground, made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and gave him his sight.

Many of them said: "He is possessed by a demon and is mad; why do you listen to him?"

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.

As soon as Mary heard that, she got up quickly, and went to meet him.

Jesus had not then come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

And not for the nation only, but also that he might unite in one body the Children of God now scattered far and wide.

The Chief Priests and the Pharisees had already issued orders that, if any one learned where Jesus was, he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

And went out to meet him, shouting as they went: "'God save Him! Blessed is He who Comes in the name of the Lord'--The King of Israel!"

This, indeed, was why the crowd met him--because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.

In fulfillment of the words of the Prophet Isaiah, where he says--'Lord, who has believed our teaching? And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?'

So Simon Peter made signs to that disciple, and whispered: "Tell me who it is that he means."

I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also."

The place was well known to Judas, the betrayer, for Jesus and his disciples had often met there.

Jesus, aware of all that was coming upon him, went to meet them, and said to them: "For whom are you looking?"

The servants and police-officers were standing round a char- coal fire (which they had made because it was cold), and were warming themselves. Peter, too, was with them, standing and warming himself.

The soldiers made a crown with some thorns and put it on his head and threw a purple robe round him.

But Jesus made no reply. So Pilate said to him: "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do not you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

This made Pilate anxious to release him; but the Jews shouted: "If you release that man, you are no friend of the Emperor! Any one who makes himself out to be a King is setting himself against the Emperor!"

They took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.

At the place where Jesus had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a newly-made tomb in which no one had ever been laid.