"In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

"Rabbi, this woman has been found in the very act of adultery.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

Then Mary took a pound of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over his feet, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Now is my soul disquieted. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, for this very cause I am come to this hour.

"Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very words' sake.

Peter again denied it; and at that very moment a cock crew.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and discovered that the stone had been removed from the tomb.