So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.

Then his son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again -- he was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

"Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

The slave replied, 'Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got his son back safe and sound.'

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

Then the father said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

Then he said to the disciples, "The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

I tell you, he will give them justice speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them, "Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.

So he called out, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.'

But he said to them, "How is it that they say that the Christ is David's son?

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"

So they asked him, "Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?"

"And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

Then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory.

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!"

But Jesus said to him, "Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

So they all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" He answered them, "You say that I am."

When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign.

because the sun's light failed. The temple curtain was torn in two.

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

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

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

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about -- Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!"

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."

So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

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 this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

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

While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live.

Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed along with his entire household.

Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

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

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

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."

So they said to him, "Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)

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?

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

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.

Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.

So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"

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

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?"

They asked the parents, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

So his parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

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?"

Jesus told him, "You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you."

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

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

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."