So I will punish him and let him go."

but they continued to shout, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

Then he spoke to them a third time: "What has he done wrong? I have found nothing in him worthy of death. So I will punish him and let him go."

But they kept pressing him with loud shouts, demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their shouts began to prevail.

As they led Jesus away, they grabbed Simon, a man from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

A large crowd of people followed him, including some women who kept mourning and wailing for him.

When they reached the place called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. The leaders were mocking him by saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Messiah of God, the chosen one!"

The soldiers also made fun of Jesus by coming up and offering him sour wine,

There was also an inscription over him written in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "This is the King of the Jews."

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?

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise."

But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, were standing at a distance watching these things.

but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.

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?"

They answered him, "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in what he said and did before God and all the people, and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. However, they didn't see him."

But they strongly urged him, "Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the daylight is nearly gone." So he went in to stay with them.

Then the two men began to tell what had happened on the road and how they had recognized him when he broke the bread in pieces.

They gave him a piece of broiled fish,

They worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem filled with great joy.

Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

In him was life, and that life brought light to humanity.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

However, to all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,

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.'"

No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

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?"

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 didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, "The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

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?"

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

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").

The next day, Jesus decided to go away to Galilee, where he found Philip and told him, "Follow me."

Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

Nathaniel asked him, "From Nazareth? Can anything good come from there?" Philip told him, "Come and see!"

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

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

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

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

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!"

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

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."

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

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?"

Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"

Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?

so that everyone who believes in him would have eternal life.

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

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

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

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?

But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life."

The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

The woman answered him, "I don't have a husband."

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

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.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

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."

The people left the town and started on their way to him.

Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, have something to eat."

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?"

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

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

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.

Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

The official told him, "Sir, please come down before my little boy dies."

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."

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."

Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!"

They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, "Pick it up and walk'?"

Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."