John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and descendants of Levi to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days.

When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

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

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

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.

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

When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"

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

We know where this man comes from. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

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

When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and healed his eyes.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

I'm telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that I AM.

I've told you this now, before I leave, so that when I do leave, you will believe.

This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.

You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

When he comes, he will convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

"I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

When Jesus told them, "I AM," they backed away and fell to the ground.

When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him."

When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid.

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in a place called The Pavement, which in Hebrew is called Gabbatha.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, and took his cloak as well. The cloak was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

After this, when Jesus realized that everything was now completed, he said (in order to fulfill the Scripture), "I'm thirsty."

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

After saying this, he showed them his hands and his side, and when they saw the Lord, the disciples were overjoyed.

When he had said this, he breathed on them and told them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

Thomas, one of the Twelve (called the Twin), wasn't with them when Jesus came.

That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

When they arrived at the shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish lying on it, and some bread.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Jesus told him, "Feed my sheep. "Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your belt and go wherever you liked. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don't want to go."

When Peter saw him, he said, "Lord, what about him?"

up to the day when he was taken up to heaven after giving orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

Now those who had gathered together began to ask Jesus, "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?"

But you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

When they came into the city, these men went to the upstairs room where they had been staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

beginning when he was baptized by John until the day he was taken up from us. Therefore, someone like this must become a witness with us to his resurrection."

So they drew lots for them, and when the lot fell on Matthias, he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.

When the day of Pentecost was being celebrated, all of them were together in one place.

When that sound came, a crowd quickly gathered, startled because each one heard the disciples speaking in his own language.

When the crowd that had gathered heard this, they were pierced to the heart. They asked Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what should we do?"

When he saw that Peter and John were about to go into the Temple, he asked them to give him something.

When all the people saw him walking and praising God,

When Peter saw this, he told the people: "Fellow Israelis, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?

You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he told Abraham, "Through your descendant all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways."

Now when the Jewish leaders saw the boldness of Peter and John and found out that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and realized that they had been with Jesus.

When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, you made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

When they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken, and all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak messages from God boldly.

When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear seized everyone who heard about it.