But Jesus called them to Him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop preventing them from it, for to such as these the kingdom of God belongs.

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me perfectly good? No one is perfectly good but God Himself.

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell everything you have, and distribute the money among the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

So when Jesus saw it, He said, "How hard it is for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was coming by.

Then he cried out, "Jesus, you Son of David, do pity me!"

Then Jesus stopped and ordered him to be brought to Him. And when he approached Jesus, He said to him,

Then Jesus said to him, "See again! Your faith has cured you."

Now he was trying to see Jesus to find out who He was, but he could not because of the crowd, as he was so small in stature.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up in a mulberry tree, just to get a glimpse of Him, for Jesus was coming through on that street.

And as Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, come down quickly! for today I must stop at your house."

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this home, for he too is a real descendant of Abraham.

So they brought it to Jesus.

Then they threw their coats upon it and mounted Jesus upon it. As He was going on, the people continued to spread their coats under Him on the road.

Then Jesus said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do."

Jesus said to them, "The people of this world marry and are married,

While He was still speaking, look! a crowd had come up, and Judas, one of the Twelve, was their guide; and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss Him.

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

But Jesus said, "Permit me to go as far as this!" So He touched his ear and healed him.

Then Jesus said to the high priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come to take Him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a robber?

Now Herod was very glad to see Jesus, for he had been wanting to see Him for a long time on account of what he had heard about Him; also he was hoping to see some spectacular performance done by Him.

So he continued to question Him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all.

Then Pilate again appealed to them, for He wanted to let Jesus go.

So he released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, whom they continued to demand, but turned Jesus over to their will.

Now as they led Him away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his shoulders, for him to carry as he walked behind Jesus.

But Jesus turned to the women and said, "Women of Jerusalem, stop weeping for me, but continue to weep for yourselves and for your children.

Then he went on to say, "Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom!"

Then Jesus uttered a loud cry, and said, "Father, I now commit my spirit to your care." As He said this He breathed His last.

He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.

So the women, who had come with Jesus from Galilee, followed closely after Joseph and saw the tomb and how His body was laid there.

And as they were talking, and discussing these things, Jesus Himself came up near to them and continued to walk with them,

And He said to them, "What sort of things?" They answered Him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who in the sight of God and of all the people became a prophet mighty in deed and word,

For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

and as he saw Jesus passing by he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God!"

The two disciples heard him say this, and so they followed Jesus.

Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus.

Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. So He sought out Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Philip sought out Nathaniel and said to him, "We have found the One about whom Moses wrote in the law and the One about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth."

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

Nathaniel said to Him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "While you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you, I saw you."

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

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.

Jesus and His disciples, too, were invited to the wedding.

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My time to act has not yet come."

Jesus said to them, "Fill these jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

Jesus performed this, the first of His wonder-works, at Cana in Galilee. By it He showed His glorious power, and so His disciples believed in Him.

After this Jesus went home to Capernaum, with His mother and brothers and disciples, and stayed there for a few days.

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching; so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days."

He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."

Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel and do not know this?

After this, Jesus and His disciples went into Judea, and for some time He stayed there with them and kept baptizing people.

though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, it was His disciples --

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

Jesus answered her, "Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again;

The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You were right in saying, 'I have no husband,'

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days.

After the two days were over, Jesus left there and went on to Galilee,

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.

Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

This is the second wonder-work that Jesus performed after He had come back from Judea to Galilee.

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Jesus saw him lying there, and when He found out that he had been in that condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet, and go to walking."

The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple court, and said to him, "See! You are now well. Stop sinning or something worse may befall you."

The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.

After this Jesus went to the other side of the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.

And so Jesus went up on the hill and was sitting there with His disciples.

So Jesus looked up and saw that a vast crowd was coming toward Him, and said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

Then Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were sitting on the ground; so too with the fish as much as they wanted.

So when Jesus learned that they were going to come and carry Him off by force to crown Him king, He again retired to the hill by Himself.

and got into a boat and started across the sea to Capernaum. Now it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terror-stricken.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there was only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone away by themselves.

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into boats themselves and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, you are looking for me, not because of the wonder-works you saw, but because you ate the loaves and had plenty.

Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the real bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the real bread out of heaven,

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. Whoever comes to me will never get hungry, and whoever believes in me will never get thirsty.

And they said, "Is He not Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? So how can He say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

Jesus answered them, "Stop grumbling to one another.

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in you.

But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?