John also gave testimony by stating: "I have seen the Spirit coming down like a dove out of Heaven; and it remained upon Him.

I did not yet know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down, and remaining, He it is who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

"Come and you shall see," He said. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained and spent that day with Him. It was then about ten o'clock in the morning.

(Now Philip came from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.)

"I tell you all in most solemn truth," He added, "that you shall see Heaven opened wide, and God's angels going up, and coming down to the Son of Man."

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven.

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.

for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.

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

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

They left the town and set out to go to Him.

Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."

When however He reached Galilee, the Galilaeans welcomed Him eagerly, having been eye-witnesses of all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Festival; for they also had been to the Festival.

Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

"Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."

and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.

"Sir," replied the sufferer, "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved; but while I am coming some one else steps down before me."

they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement.

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men numbering about 5,000.

Accordingly they gathered them up; and with the fragments of the five barley loaves--the broken portions that remained over after they had done eating--they filled twelve baskets.

When evening came on, His disciples went down to the Lake.

For God's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and gives Life to the world."

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.

They kept asking, "Is not this man Joseph's son? Is he not Jesus, whose father and mother we know? What does he mean by now saying, 'I have come down out of Heaven'?"

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

I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."

This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."

"One deed I have done," replied Jesus, "and you are all full of wonder.

Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing."

Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I am laying down my life for the sheep.

For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.

No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."

"Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him."

though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He had done.

Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples.

The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again, and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

"Master," asked Peter again, "why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life on your behalf.

"You say you will lay down your life on my behalf!" said Jesus; "in most solemn truth I tell you that the cock will not crow before you have three times disowned me."

"If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.

I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work which by Thine appointment has been mine to do.

"Am I a Jew?" exclaimed Pilate; "it is your own nation and the High Priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judge's seat in a place called the Pavement--or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

Taking down the body they wrapped it in linen cloths along with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish mode of preparing for burial.

Thomas, one of the twelve--surnamed 'the Twin' --was not among them when Jesus came.

Simon Peter was with Thomas, called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zabdi, and two others of the Master's disciples.