for although many men gave false testimony against Him, their testimonies did not agree.

But even in this matter their testimony did not agree.

Did you hear His own blasphemy? What do you think now?" And they all condemned Him as deserving to die.

Pilate wondered whether He was dead yet, and calling the captain to him asked whether He was already dead;

Then they left the tomb and fled, for they were trembling and bewildered, and they did not tell anybody a single thing about it, for they were afraid to do so.

Later on He appeared to the Eleven themselves while they were at table, and reproved them for their lack of faith and their stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had been raised from the dead.

Now you will keep silent and be unable to talk until the day when this takes place, because you did not believe what I told you, for it will be fulfilled at the proper time."

for today, in the town of David, a Saviour for you has been born, who is to be your Messiah and Lord.

As they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem in anxious search for Him.

When His parents saw Him, they were utterly amazed, and yet His mother said to Him, "My child, why did you treat us so? Just see how your father and I, in agony of mind, have been searching for you!"

Then He said to them, "Why is it that you were searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"

But they did not understand what He said to them.

Then He began to speak to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing."

He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote this proverb to me, 'Doctor, cure yourself! Do the things here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.'"

They did so and caught so vast a shoal of fish that their nets began to break.

Then an overwhelming wonder seized them all and they began to give praise to God. They were filled with awe and continued to say, "We have seen unthinkable wonders today!"

Jesus answered them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his soldiers became hungry?

Then He glanced around at them all and said to him, "Put out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was at once completely restored.

And so I did not deem myself worthy even to come to you. But simply speak the word, and let my servant-boy be cured.

As He approached the gate of the town, look, there was being carried out a dead man, his mother's only son, and she was a widow! A considerable crowd of townspeople were with her.

Then the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

And so He answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind are seeing and the crippled are walking, the lepers are being healed and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised and the poor are having the good news preached to them.

But when John's messengers had gone, He began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

If not, what did you go out there to see? A man dressed in silks and satins? No. People who dress gorgeously and live luxuriously are found in royal palaces.

If not, then what did you go out there to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one who is far more than a prophet.

They are like little children sitting in the market-place and calling to their fellows in the game: "'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not mourn.'

And turning face to face with the woman He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not give me a kiss, but she, from the moment I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet with affection.

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with perfume.

As soon as He stepped out upon the shore, there met Him a man from town, who was under the power of demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and did not stay in a house but in tombs.

While He was still speaking, someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; stop troubling the Teacher anymore."

Now they were all weeping and wailing over her. But He said, "Stop weeping! For she is not dead but asleep."

Then they began to laugh in His face, for they knew that she was dead.

Now Herod the governor heard of all that was taking place, and he continued to be puzzled over the reports -- by some that John had risen from the dead,

And they did so, and made all the people sit down and recline.

And just as they were starting to leave Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- although he did not know what he was saying.

But they remained ignorant of what this meant; indeed, it had been hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

Then He answered him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but you go on and continue to spread the good news of the kingdom of God."

And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven? No, you are to go down to the regions of the dead.

For I tell you, many prophets and kings have wished to see what you are seeing, but they did not, and to hear what you are hearing, but they did not."

Jesus answered: "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat him till he was half dead, and then went off and left him.

The Pharisee noticed that He did not first wash before lunch, and was surprised.

You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside too?

So you testify to what your forefathers did and approve it, because they killed them and you build monuments for them.

A curse on you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to the door of knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you kept out those who tried to get in."

Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, how much more surely will He clothe you, O you with little faith?

"You must keep your belts tight and your lamps burning,

By no means, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.

By no means, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did."

Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.

But He said to them: "Go and tell that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish these tasks.

because this son of mine was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found!' So they began to celebrate.

But we just had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found.'"

But he pleaded, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, they would repent.'

Then he answered, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, even if someone rises from the dead.'"

But they did not understand about these things, and this statement was an insoluble riddle to them; they did not even begin to grasp what He meant.

And as Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, come down quickly! for today I must stop at your house."

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this home, for he too is a real descendant of Abraham.

For I lived in constant dread of you, because you are a stern man, you pick up what you did not put down, you reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'On the ground of what you say I will sentence you, you wicked slave! You knew that I was a stern man, that I picked up what I did not put down, and reaped what I did not sow.

So why did you not put my money into the bank? In that case, when I came back I could have gotten interest on my principal.'

But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me to become king over them and slay them in my presence!'"

and said: "If today you yourself had only known the conditions of peace! But now they are hidden from you.

and they will throw you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know when God visited you."

And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

So they answered and said that they did not know where it was from.

and the third, married her; as also the seven did who died but left no child.

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

But that the dead are raised, even Moses at the bush has demonstrated, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

He is not the God of dead but of living people, for all live to Him."

For they did not dare to ask Him any more questions.

for I tell you, I shall not after today drink the product of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."

But He said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow today before you deny three times that you know me!"

Then He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, you did not need anything, did you?" They answered, "Nothing at all."

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter was reminded of the word that the Lord had spoken to him, "Before a cock crows today, you will disown me three times."

But from today the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God."

and yet on going inside they did not find the body.

Because the women were so frightened and were turning their faces to the ground, they said to them, "Why are you looking among the dead for Him who is alive?

And He said to them, "What sort of things?" They answered Him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who in the sight of God and of all the people became a prophet mighty in deed and word,

Then some of our company went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Him."

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"

Then they said to each other, "Did not our hearts keep burning in our bosoms as He was talking to us on the road, as He went on explaining the Scriptures to us?"

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,

He came into the world, and though the world through Him began to exist, it did not recognize Him.

He came into His own world, but His own people did not welcome Him.

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

He frankly admitted, and did not try at all to deny it; yes, he frankly admitted, "I am not the Christ."

I did not know Him myself, but I came baptizing in water, that He might be made known to Israel."

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

I did see it; and my testimony is that He is the Son of God."

As soon as the manager tasted the water just turned into wine, without knowing where it came from, although the servants who had drawn the water did know, he called the bridegroom

So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days.

The king's officer pleaded with Him, "Sir, come down at once before my child is dead!"

The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away.

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

I most solemnly say to you, a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

So when they had crossed the sea and found Him, they asked Him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"