But they did not understand this saying ??indeed it was kept a secret from them, to prevent them from fathoming it ??and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God."

Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead.

So did a Levite who came to the spot; he looked at him but passed on the opposite side.

The men of Ninive will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for when Jonah preached they did repent, and here is One greater than Jonah.

Foolish men! did not He who made the outside make the inside of things too?

thus you testify and consent to what your fathers did, for they killed and you build.

The servant who knew his lord and master's orders and did not prepare for them, will receive many lashes;

whereas he who was ignorant and did what deserves a beating, will receive few lashes. He who has much given him will have much required from him, and he who has much entrusted to him will have all the more demanded of him.

I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did.

I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did."

for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone only goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

However, they did not understand a word of this; indeed the saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he meant.

He replied, 'You rascal of a servant, I will convict you by what you have said yourself. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, picking up what I never put down, and reaping what I never sowed!

Why then did you not put my money into the bank, so that I could have got it with interest when I came back?'

Day after day he taught within the temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, and so did the leaders of the people,

did the baptism of John come from heaven or from men?"

Now they reasoned to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why did you not believe him?'

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

and the third took her, as indeed all the seven did, dying and leaving no children.

but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,

And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.'

God is not a God of dead people but of living, for all live to him."

And he said to them, "When I sent you out with neither purse nor wallet nor sandals, did you want for anything?" "No," they said, "for nothing."

And one of them did strike the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

They were terrified and bent their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

Peter did get up and run to the tomb, but when he looked in he saw nothing except the linen bandages; so he went away home wondering what had happened.

Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago!

Some of our company did go to the tomb and found things exactly as the women had said, but they did not see him."

And they said to one another, "Did not our hearts glow within us when he was talking to us on the road, opening up the scriptures for us?"

"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

amid the darkness the Light shone, but the darkness did not master it.

he entered the world ??the world which existed through him ??yet the world did not recognize him;

he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.

he frankly confessed ??he did not deny it, he frankly confessed, "I am not the Christ."

I myself did not recognize him; I only came to baptize with water, in order that he might be disclosed to Israel."

I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.'

Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."

Then he said, "Now draw some out, and take it to the manager of the feast." They did so;

and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples),

"Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

Now many Samaritans belonging to that town believed in him on account of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

So when the Samaritans arrived, they pressed him to stay with them; he did stay there two days,

on reaching Galilee, he was welcomed by the Galileans, who had seen all he did at the festival in Jerusalem ??for they too had gone to the festival.

The official said, "Come down, sir, before my boy is dead."

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away.

And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.

for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

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

Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!"

(for even his brothers did not believe in him).

Did not Moses give you the Law? ??and yet none of you honestly obeys the Law. Else, why do you want to kill me?"

Jesus answered them, "I have only performed one deed, and yet you are all amazed at it.

They did not understand he was speaking to them about the Father;

They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did;

but now you want to kill me ??to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that.

Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure you are mad. Abraham is dead, and so are all the prophets; and you declare, 'If anyone holds to what I say, he will never taste death'!

Are you greater than our father Abraham? He is dead, and the prophets are dead. Who do you claim to be?"

Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced."

"What did he do to you?" they repeated; "How did he open your eyes?"

Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what he was saying to them;

Jesus replied, "I have let you see many a good deed of God; for which of them do you mean to stone me?"

The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."

and many came to him, saying, "John did not perform any Sign, but all he ever said about this man was true."

he then told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead;

Jesus said, "Remove the boulder." "Lord," said Martha, the dead man's sister, "he will be stinking by this time; he has been dead four days."

"Did I not tell you," said Jesus, "if you will only believe, you shall see the glory of God?"

Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."

(He did not say this simply of his own accord; he was high priest that year, and his words were a prophecy that Jesus was to die for the nation,

Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead).

Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

(His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

Now the people who were with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, testified to it;

Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then;

(this was to fulfil his own word: 'I did not lose a single one of those whom thou didst give me').

Said one of the high priest's servants, a kinsman of the man whose ear had been cut off by Peter, "Did I not see you with him in the orchard?"

Jesus replied, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did other people tell you about me?"

Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere."

they said to themselves, "Don't let us tear it. Let us draw lots to see who gets it" (that the scripture might be fulfilled, they distributed my clothes among them, and drew lots for my raiment). This was what the soldiers did.

but when they came to Jesus and saw he was dead already, they did not break his legs;

He glanced in and saw the bandages lying on the ground, but he did not go inside.

(For as yet they did not understand the Scripture that he must rise from the dead.)

With these words she turned round and noticed Jesus standing ??though she did not know it was Jesus.

Many another Sign did Jesus perform in presence of his disciples, which is not recorded in this book;

Now at break of day Jesus was standing on the beach (though the disciples did not know it was Jesus).

This was the third time, now, that Jesus appeared to the disciples after rising from the dead.

This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?"

Now there is much else that Jesus did ??so much, that if it were written down in detail. I do not suppose the world itself could hold the written records.

Judas did enter our number, he did get his allotted share of this our ministry.