After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean."

The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows today you will deny me three times."

The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy. Who is the one who struck you?"

They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

As soon as it was day, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king."

Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."

When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard concerning him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

I will therefore chastise him and release him."

but they shouted, saying, "Crucify. Crucify him."

He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and placed on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.

A great crowd of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

The people stood watching. The rulers also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Messiah of God, his Chosen One."

The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

An inscription was also written above him: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."

One of the criminals who hung there insulted him, saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us."

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

And he said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been placed.

The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was placed.

But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things which have happened there in these days?"

He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they did not see him."

They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

They gave him a piece of a broiled fish.

They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

All things were made through him, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

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

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

He came to his own, and those who were his own did not receive him.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name,

John testified about him. He shouted out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

No one has seen God at any time. The only God, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

And this is John's testimony, when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

And they asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

I did not know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

And John testified, saying, "I saw the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

And I did not recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, this is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

And the two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.

And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and you will see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

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

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah." (which is translated, Christ).

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas" (which is translated, Peter).

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me."

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

And Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are King of Israel."

Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these."

And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now."

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

The Jewish leaders therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"

The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these things be?"

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things?

that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, look, he is baptizing, and everyone is coming to him."

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from heaven.

You yourselves bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Messiah,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is now complete.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever refuses to believe in the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How can you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I do not get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

The woman answered and said to him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'

The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

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

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

They went out of the city, and were coming to him.