And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to have them give him a share of the vintage, but the tenants beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and love to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets??47 men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get all the heavier sentence!"

But when you hear of wars and outbreaks, do not be alarmed. These have to come first, but the end does not follow immediately."

But before all this, men will arrest you and persecute you, and hand you over to synagogues and prisons and have you brought before kings and governors on my account.

But alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies, for there will be great misery in the land and anger at this people.

And he said to them, "I have greatly desired to eat this Passover supper with you before I suffer.

But it is you who have stood by me in my trials.

but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And afterward you yourself must turn and strengthen your brothers."

And 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?

Then they said, "What do we want of testimony now? We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."

and said to them, "You brought this man before me charged with misleading the people, and here I have examined him before you and not found him guilty of any of the things that you accuse him of.

And he said to them a third time, "Why, what has he done that is wrong? For I have found nothing about him to call for his death. So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."

for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!'

But the other reproved him and said, "Have you no fear even of God when you are suffering the same penalty?

But some women of our number have astounded us. They went to the tomb early this morning

Then he said to them, "How foolish you are and how slow to believe all that the prophets have said!

Did not the Christ have to suffer thus before entering upon his glory?"

Look at my hands and feet, for it is I myself! Feel of me and see, for a ghost has not flesh and bones, as you see I have."

But they could not yet believe it for sheer joy and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?"

The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

I tell you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen the things we testify to, yet you all reject our testimony.

If you will not believe the earthly things that I have told you, how can you believe the heavenly things I have to tell?

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her,

"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

I have sent you to reap a harvest on which you have not worked. Other men have worked and you have profited by their work."

and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.

But I have higher testimony than John's, for the things that my Father has intrusted to me to accomplish, the very things that I am doing, are proof that my Father has sent me,

and my Father who has sent me has thus borne witness to me. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,

but I know well that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

I have come in my Father's name, and you refuse to accept me. If someone else comes in his own name you will accept him.

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

Philip answered, "Forty dollars' worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

But as I have told you, although you have seen me, you will not believe.

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Simon Peter answered, "To whom can we go, sir? You have a message of eternal life,

Jesus answered, "I have done just one deed, and you are all astonished at it.

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

The attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to the attendants, "Why have you not brought him?"

The Pharisees answered, "Have you been imposed upon too?

Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered, "Even if I am testifying to myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I have come from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."

But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed, but I have respect for my Father, and you have no respect for me.

yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

The Jews said to him, "You are not fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

So they asked the blind man again, "What have you to say about him, because he has made you able to see?" He said, "He is a prophet!"

He answered, "I have already told you and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become disciples of his too?"

Jesus said to him, "You have seen him already, and it is he who is now talking to you."

And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them.

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it of my own accord. I have power to give it, and I have power to take it back again. These are the orders I have received from my Father."

Jesus answered, "I have told you so, and you will not believe it. The things I have been doing by my Father's authority are my credentials,

Jesus answered, "I have let you see many good things from the Father; which of them do you mean to stone me for?"

The disciples said to him, "Master, the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

Martha said to Jesus, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

he said, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Come and see, Master."

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of that blind man, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

Jesus said to her, "Have I not promised you that if you will believe in me you will see the glory of God?"

though I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the people that are standing around me that they may believe that you have made me your messenger."

for you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

Now my heart is troubled; what am I to say? Father, save me from this trial! And yet it was for this very purpose that I have come to this trial.

Father, honor your own name!" Then there came a voice from the sky, "I have honored it, and I will honor it again!"

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going.

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me may have to remain in darkness.

If anyone hears my words and disregards them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Whoever rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings is not without his judge; the very message I have given will be his judge on the Last Day,

for I have not spoken on my account, but the Father who has sent me has himself given me orders what to tell and what to say.

Peter said to him, "I will never let you wash my feet!" Jesus answered, "You will have no share with me unless I wash you."