So it was in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

Jesus also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, thinking they were righteous, but who looked down on everyone else:

Now some people were even bringing their infants to Jesus to have him touch them. But when the disciples saw this, they sternly told the people not to do that.

Those who were listening to Jesus asked, "Then who can be saved?"

As they were listening to this, Jesus went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and because the people thought that the kingdom of God would appear immediately.

So those who were sent went off and found it as Jesus had told them.

While they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

He replied, "I tell you, if they were quiet, the stones would cry out!"

They will level you to the ground you and those who live within your city limits. They will not leave one stone on another within your walls, because you didn't recognize the time when you were visited."

Then Jesus went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling things.

but they couldn't find a way to do it, because all the people were eager to hear him.

When the scribes and the high priests realized that Jesus had told this parable about them, they wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the crowd.

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died childless.

While all the people were listening, he told his disciples,

Now while some people were talking about the Temple how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God he said,

So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the crowd.

They were delighted, and agreed to give him money.

When those who were around Jesus saw what was about to take place, they asked, "Lord, should we attack with our swords?"

Then Jesus told the high priests, the Temple police, and the elders, who had come for him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a bandit?

Then the men who were holding Jesus in custody began to make fun of him while they beat him.

Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. The leaders were mocking him by saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Messiah of God, the chosen one!"

But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, were standing at a distance watching these things.

While they were puzzling over this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly stood beside them.

The women who told the apostles about it were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some others.

On the same day, two of Jesus' followers were walking to a village called Emmaus, about 60 stadia from Jerusalem.

They were talking with each other about all these things that had taken place.

While they were discussing and analyzing what had happened, Jesus himself approached and began to walk with them,

but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.

Even some of our women have startled us by what they told us. They were at the tomb early this morning

and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who were saying that he was alive.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. However, they didn't see him."

As they came near the village where the two men were headed, Jesus acted as though he were going farther.

Then their eyes were opened, and they knew who he was. And he vanished from them.

While they were all talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and told them, "Peace be with you."

They were startled and terrified, thinking they were seeing a ghost.

Even though they were still skeptical due to their joy and astonishment, Jesus asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

They were continually in the Temple, blessing God.

Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from two to three measures.

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, have something to eat."

and under these a large number of sick people were lying blind, lame, or paralyzed waiting for the movement of the water.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed as much fish as they wanted.

When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

So they were glad to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, because he didn't want to travel in Judea, since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

Nevertheless, no one would speak openly about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.

The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, "How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?"

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, "This really is the Prophet,"

while others were saying, "This is the Messiah!"

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

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.

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, "We see,' your sin still exists."

Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why bother listening to him?"

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

These were the things he said. Then after this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm leaving to wake him up."

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

I have made your name known to these men whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since the other disciple was known to the high priest, he accompanied Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.

Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.

They answered him, "If he weren't a criminal, we wouldn't have handed him over to you."

Meanwhile, standing near Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

The two of them were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and came to the tomb first.

At this point Simon Peter arrived, following him, and went straight into the tomb. He observed that the linen cloths were lying there,

She saw two angels in white clothes who were sitting down, one at the head and the other at the foot of the place where Jesus' body had been lying.

It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."