[Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.

When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief.

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

Then they said, "Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!"

When he learned that he was from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

And all those who knew Jesus stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw these things.

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb,

and when they returned from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

and said to them, "Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

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

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

Then John testified, "I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must all be born from above.'

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven -- the Son of Man.

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.

Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."

After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

"I do not accept praise from people,

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

But some boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But still others said, "No, for the Christ doesn't come from Galilee, does he?

Don't the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

"Our law doesn't condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?"

They replied, "You aren't from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!"

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "What I have told you from the beginning.

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.

Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"

So from that day they planned together to kill him.

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)