Then I'll say to myself, "You've stored up plenty of good things for many years. Take it easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself."'

But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

"I've come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze!

So he told the gardener, "Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?'

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

For I say to you, that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. For many are called, but few chosen.

Then he goes home, calls his friends and neighbors together, and says to them, "Rejoice with me, because I've found my lost sheep!'

A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”

And as He entered a certain village, He was met by ten men with infectious skin diseases, who were standing some distance away [Note: Restrictions in the Jewish law prevented contact with persons having infectious diseases. See Lev. 13:45ff],

And when Jesus saw them, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." [See Lev. 13:49; 14:2ff]. And it happened, as they went [along], that they were healed.

I tell you, he will speedily avenge them. however, when the son of man comes, how few of the faithful will he find in the land?

Made an attempt to get a view of Jesus, and was not able to do so, because of the people, for he was a small man.

so he ran before, and climb'd up a mulberry-tree to view him; for he was to pass that way.

He went on to tell a parable in their hearing, as he was approaching Jerusalem and as they imagined God's Reign would instantly come into view.

"Then the other servant came and said, "Sir, look! Here's your coin. I've kept it in a cloth for safekeeping

When He came into full view of the city, He wept aloud over it, and exclaimed,

the time is coming, said he, when these buildings, which you now view, shall be all thrown down and lost in ruins.

“Listen,” He said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.

“Why do we need any more testimony,” they said, “since we’ve heard it ourselves from His mouth?”

And these words appeared in their view as idle talk; and they were disbelieving them.

The one whose name was Cleopas answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know what happened there in the past few days?"

And then their eyes were open, and they had knowledge of him, but he went from their view.

and that repentance [necessary] for forgiveness of sins would be preached in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

And He brought them out to within view of Bethany, and then lifted up His hands and blessed them.

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew's and Peter's home town. [Note: This town was on the northwest shore of Lake Galilee, a few miles from Capernaum].

After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

Say not ye, 'There are yet four months, and the harvest is coming?' Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and view the fields, because they are white for harvest.

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

Under these porticos a large number of sick, blind, crippled and deformed people were placed {{A few ancient authorities add "to wait for the water [of the pool] to become choppy.

And a vast crowd continued to follow Him, for they pressed on to view the wonder-works which He performed for the sick people.

But as I told you, you’ve seen Me, and yet you do not believe.

For I came down from heaven, not with a view to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

What then, if ye should view the Son of Man ascending where he was before? --

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

His brethren, therefore, said unto him - Remove hence, and withdraw into Judaea, that, thy disciples also, may view thy works which thou art doing.

You men go [on] up to the festival, but I am not going up yet [Note: Although "yet" appears in only a few manuscripts, it seems to be the proper idea here], because my time has not yet come. [See verse 6].

he that speaks from himself, has a view to his own glory: but he that has a view to his glory that sent him, deserves credit, and is a stranger to all imposture.

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

“Who are You?” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

You’ve never known Him, but I know Him. If I were to say I don’t know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

Your forefather Abraham was glad that he could look forward to my day [i.e., by faith he anticipated the coming of the Messiah. See Heb. 11:13ff]. And he saw it [by faith] and was glad."

The Jews replied, “You aren’t 50 years old yet, and You’ve seen Abraham?”

He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"

The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look—the world has gone after Him!”

While you have the Light, believe and trust in the Light [have faith in it, hold on to it, rely on it], so that you may become sons of Light [being filled with Light as followers of God].”

Jesus said these things, and then He left and hid Himself from them.

I've come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won't remain in the darkness.

The one who rejects me and doesn't receive my words has something to judge him: The word that I've spoken will judge him on the last day,

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe me because of what I've been doing.

I've told you this now, before I leave, so that when I do leave, you will believe.

You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.

I've told you this, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

They said to her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“Because they’ve taken away my Lord,” she told them, “and I don’t know where they’ve put Him.”

“Woman,” Jesus said to her, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

Supposing He was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you’ve removed Him, tell me where you’ve put Him, and I will take Him away.”

So Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I've seen the Lord!" She also told them what he had told her.

Upon saying this, Jesus breathed on the disciples and said to them, "[Be willing to] receive the Holy Spirit." [Note: This "breathing" served as a pledge of the Holy Spirit which actually came on these apostles a few weeks later. See Acts 1:5-8; 2:4].

So the other disciples kept telling him, "We've seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I'll never believe!"

Jesus told him, "Is it because you've seen me that you have believed? How blessed are those who have never seen me and yet have believed!"

“Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus told them.

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,” He told him.

because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit a few days from now."

And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.

But what you see happening is simply [the fulfillment of] what was predicted by the prophet Joel [2:28ff],

[In that day] the sun will become dark and the moon will [appear] as blood. [This will all happen] before the great and wonderful day when the Lord comes. [Note: Some view these last two verses as a reference to events occurring at the end of time. See Matt. 24:29-30].

King David said this about Jesus [Psa. 16:8ff], 'I always see the Lord in front of me, He is at my right side for protection;

"Repent," replied Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, with a view to the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

and the Prince of life ye killed; Whom God raised from the dead??f which fact we are witnesses.

for we cannot stop talking about what we've seen and heard."

But a Pharisee of the name of Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, held in honour by all the people, rose from his seat and requested that they should be sent outside the court for a few minutes.

And when the time of forty years was completed to him, it came up upon his heart to take a view of his brethren the sons of Israel.

And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I've heard their groans, and I've come down to rescue them. Now come, I'll send you to Egypt.'

But God turned [away from them] and allowed them to worship heavenly bodies [i.e., stars], just as it was written in the prophet [Amos 5:25ff], 'Did you offer me slain animals as sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, you Israelites?

However, the Highest [i.e., God] does not live in a house made by human beings, as the prophet said [Isaiah 66:1ff],

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who declared beforehand concerning the coming of the Righteous One??f Whom just now ye became the betrayers and murderers;

Now the passage of Scripture he was reading said [Isa. 53:7ff], "He was led out to be slaughtered as a sheep; He made no sound, just like a lamb when it was being sheared.

The sky had opened to his view, and what seemed to be an enormous sail was descending, being let down to the earth by ropes at the four corners.

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.