Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!"

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,

saying, "If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Now one day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up

Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him."

Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,

When they sprout leaves, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near.

Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table and the apostles joined him.

For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."

He said to them, "But now, the one who has a money bag must take it, and likewise a traveler's bag too. And the one who has no sword must sell his cloak and buy one.

Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

Now when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, "Certainly this man was innocent!"

Now there was a man named Joseph who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man.

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward," and they did.

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!"

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

Now a dispute came about between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

So he told them, "My Father is working until now, and I too am working."

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

(Now the Jewish feast of the Passover was near.)

(Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,

By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, "He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see."

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

They asked the parents, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing -- that although I was blind, now I can see."

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

The disciples replied, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?"

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.