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?

that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again."

He said to them, "What things?" "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene," they replied, "a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

This is the one about whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'

I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God."

He continued, "I tell all of you the solemn truth -- you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

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

Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven -- the Son of Man.

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

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

Jesus told him, "Go home; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"

They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your mat and walk'?"

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.

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, "How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?"

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

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'?"

The officers replied, "No one ever spoke like this man!"

"Our law doesn't condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?"

It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

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!

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?"

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man's eyes

and said to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

Some people said, "This is the man!" while others said, "No, but he looks like him." The man himself kept insisting, "I am the one!"

He replied, "The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see."

They said to him, "Where is that man?" He replied, "I don't know."

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, "What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?" "He is a prophet," the man replied.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

The man replied, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"

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."

Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."

"Why wasn't this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?"

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

Jesus replied, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Then the crowd responded, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

"I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

Jesus replied, "I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go."

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

The girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You're not one of this man's disciples too, are you?" He replied, "I am not."

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?"

So Pilate came outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

They replied, "If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you."

Then they shouted back, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)

So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look, here is the man!"

From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!"

Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The king of the Jews,' but rather, 'This man said, I am king of the Jews.'"

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them

and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven."