Jesus replied, "The things that are impossible for people are possible for God."

because I was afraid of you. You are a hard man. You withdraw what you didn't deposit and harvest what you didn't plant.'

If anyone asks you why you are untying it, say this: "The Lord needs it.'"

While they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

and asked him, "Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

But if we say, "From humans,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Jesus told them, "Those who belong to this age marry and are married,

but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children.

Even Moses demonstrated in the story about the bush that the dead are raised, when he calls the Lord, "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

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

He said, "Be careful that you are not deceived, because many will come in my name and say, "I AM' and, "The time has come.' Don't follow them.

because these are the days of vengeance when all that is written will be fulfilled.

"How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! because there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the unbelievers until the times of the unbelievers are fulfilled."

"There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and there will be distress on earth among the nations that are confused by the roaring of the sea and its waves.

People will faint from fear and apprehension because of the things that are to come on the inhabited world, because the powers of heaven will be shaken.

So be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

But he told them, "The kings of the unbelievers lord it over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors.

But you are not to do so. On the contrary, the greatest among you should become like the youngest, and the one who leads should become like the one who serves.

"You are the ones who have always stood by me in my trials.

So they said, "Lord, look! Here are two swords." He answered them, "Enough of that!"

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

He asked them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and keep on praying that you may not be tempted."

But Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"

A little later, a man looked at him and said, "You are one of them, too." But Peter said, "Mister, I am not!"

They said, "If you are the Messiah, tell us."

Then they all asked, "Are you, then, the Son of God?" He answered them, "You said it I AM."

Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "You say so."

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting him, "You are the Messiah, aren't you? Save yourself"and us!"

But the other criminal rebuked him, "Aren't you afraid of God, since you are suffering the same penalty?

We have been condemned justly, because we are getting what we deserve for what we have done, but this man has done nothing wrong."

While the women remained terrified, bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living?

He asked them, "What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?" They stood still and looked gloomy.

The one whose name was Cleopas answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know what happened there in the past few days?"

Then Jesus told them, "O, how foolish you are! How slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!

But Jesus told them, "What's frightening you? And why are you doubting?

Then he told them, "These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled."

You are witnesses of these things.

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?"

So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

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?"

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

Nathaniel replied to him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

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!"

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

The woman told him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet!

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

But you are not willing to come to me to have life.

"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

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

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

Besides, we have believed and remain convinced that you are the Holy One of God."

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Jesus answered them, "I performed one action, and all of you are astonished.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

Then they asked him, "Who are you?"

So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

The Jewish leaders replied to him, "Surely we're right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?"

You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

I and the Father are one."

Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your Law, "I said, "You are gods"'?

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

Then he came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"