Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in."

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

But the one who did not know his master's will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.

But he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.'

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again -- he was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

Then the rich man said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

He replied to him, 'If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"

He won't thank the slave because he did what he was told, will he?

Then the disciples said to him, "Where, Lord?" He replied to them, "Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather."

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today."

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.'

The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!'"

They will demolish you -- you and your children within your walls -- and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God."

So they discussed it with one another, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

So they replied that they did not know where it came from.

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

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

For they did not dare any longer to ask him anything.

Jesus replied, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me."

Then Jesus said to them, "When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler's bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing."

Then Jesus went out and made his way, as he customarily did, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!"

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing.

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.

And we rightly so, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did, but this man has done nothing wrong."

And Jesus said to him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

but when they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?

But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

and said to them, "Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

He confessed -- he did not deny but confessed -- "I am not the Christ!"

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel."

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

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

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

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

"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can't be the Messiah, can he?"

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?"

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

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."

Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

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.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Jesus replied, "This is the deed God requires -- to believe in the one whom he sent."

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

Jesus stood up straight and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

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!

Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?"

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

(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,

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.

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.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. "I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the orchard with him?"

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor's residence. (Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor's residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.

So the soldiers said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it." This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice." So the soldiers did these things.

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in.

(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he did so.

When it was already very early morning, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.

This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?"

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

(Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, 'The Lord said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand

Peter looked directly at him (as did John) and said, "Look at us!"

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.