Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him."

For they did not dare any longer to ask him anything.

"As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!"

He said, "Watch out that you are not misled. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them!

And when you hear of wars and rebellions, do not be afraid. For these things must happen first, but the end will not come at once."

Therefore be resolved not to rehearse ahead of time how to make your defense.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

"But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."

Jesus replied, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me."

When he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation."

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

So he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!"

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!"

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, "You are one of them too." But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

and said, "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe,

and if I ask you, you will not answer.

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

and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

(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.

but when they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,

But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

Look at my hands and my feet; it's me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have."

And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

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

And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

He confessed -- he did not deny but confessed -- "I am not the Christ!"

So they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No!"

So they asked John, "Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

John answered them, "I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!"

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel."

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

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!"

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

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."

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."

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

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

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

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

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."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

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

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"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.

"Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

"I do not accept praise from people,

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?"

Philip replied, "Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little."

got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)

But he said to them, "It is I. Do not be afraid."

The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

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.

But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

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

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

Jesus replied, "Do not complain about me to one another.