there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself.

In front of him there was a man who had dropsy;

Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests.

He also said: "There was a man who had two sons,

After he had spent his all, a severe famine set in throughout that land, and he began to feel in want;

He also said to the disciples: "There was a rich man who had a factor, and this factor, he found, was accused of misapplying his property.

The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

"In a certain town," he said, "there was a judge who had no reverence for God and no respect even for man.

But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.

However he secured the royal power and came home. Then he ordered the servants to be called who had been given the money, that he might find out what business they had done.

The messengers went off and found the colt exactly as he had told them.

and as he was now close to the descent from the Hill of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples started joyfully to praise God with a loud voice for all they had seen,

At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.

Then came the day of unleavened bread when the paschal lamb had to be sacrificed.

They went off and found it was as he had told them. So they prepared the passover,

Then he said to the high priests and commanders of the temple and elders who had appeared to take him, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

and sat down among some people who had lit a fire in the courtyard and were sitting round it.

About an hour had passed when another man insisted, "That fellow really was with him. Why, he is a Galilean!"

the Lord turned round and looked at Peter, and then Peter remembered what the Lord had told him, that 'Before cock-crow to-day you will disown me three times.'

Meantime the men who had Jesus in custody flogged him and made fun of him;

When day broke, the elders of the people all met along with the high priests and scribes, and had him brought before their Sanhedrin. They said to him,

Herod was greatly delighted to see Jesus; he had long wanted to see him, because he had heard about him and also because he hoped to see him perform some miracle.

Herod and Pilate became friends that day ??previously they had been at enmity.

(This was a man who had been put into prison on account of a riot which had taken place in the city and also on a charge of murder.)

he released the man they wanted, the man who had been imprisoned for riot and murder, and Jesus he handed over to their will.

One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."

When the army-captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent."

And when all the crowds who had collected for the sight saw what had happened, they turned away beating their breasts.

As for his acquaintances, they were all standing at a distance to look on, with the women who had accompanied him from Galilee.

who had not voted for their plan of action; he belonged to Arimathaea, a Jewish town, and he was on the outlook for the Reign of God.

He then took it down, wrapped it in linen, and put it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

So the women who had accompanied him from Galilee and who had followed Joseph, noted the tomb and the position of the body;

On the sabbath they rested in obedience to God's command, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.

that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."

Then they remembered what he had said,

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.

and could not find his body, but they came to tell us they had actually seen a vision of angels who declared he was alive.

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

Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"

who told them that the Lord had really risen and that he had appeared to Simon.

Then they related their own experience on the road and how they had recognized him when he broke the loaf.

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

Jesus answered, "You believe because I told you I had seen you under that fig tree? You shall see more than that."

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

and when the manager of the feast tasted the water which had become wine, not knowing where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn it knew), he called the bridegroom

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.

(John had not yet been thrown into prison).

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

He had to pass through Samaria,

and in so doing he arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar; it lay near the territory which Jacob had given to his son Joseph,

(his disciples had gone to the town to buy some food).

you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now espoused is not your husband. That was a true word."

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.

Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum;

when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to improve; they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very time when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is alive"; and he became a believer with all his household.

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?"

So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat."

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.

Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

followed by a large crowd on account of the Signs which they had seen him perform on sick folk.

Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

and embarking in a boat they started across the sea for Capharnahum. By this time it was dark, Jesus had not reached them yet,

Next day the crowd which had been left standing on the other side of the sea bethought them that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, who had left by themselves.

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up too, not publicly but as it were privately.

So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet.

(he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: ??as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

Nicodemus, one of their number (the same who had come to him before), said to them,

The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery, and making her stand forward

"Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple, but no one arrested him, because his time had not come yet.

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth;

Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.

Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes.

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?"

and went across the Jordan, back to the spot where John had baptized at first. There he stayed;

Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,

Now when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.

a number of Jews had gone to condole with Martha and Mary about their brother;

Said Martha to Jesus, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died.

Jesus had not entered the village yet, he was still at the spot where Martha had met him.

But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."

Now a number of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and who witnessed what he had done, believed in him.

But some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done;

(The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.)

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.

Next day the great mass of people who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem,

(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.)

and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign.