So they went and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

Then Jesus said to them, "When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler's bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing."

So they said, "Look, Lord, here are two swords." Then he told them, "It is enough."

When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said, "Lord, should we use our swords?"

Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.

When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, "Prophesy! Who hit you?"

They also said many other things against him, reviling him.

When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council

So they all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" He answered them, "You say that I am."

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

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king."

But they persisted in saying, "He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!"

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, for prior to this they had been enemies.

But they all shouted out together, "Take this man away! Release Barabbas for us!"

But they kept on shouting, "Crucify, crucify him!"

But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

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.

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'

So when they came to the place that is called "The Skull," they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

[But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

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

Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

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

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

While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood beside them in dazzling attire.

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

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

They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.

While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them

Then he said to them, "What are these matters you are discussing so intently as you walk along?" And they stood still, looking sad.

He said to them, "What things?" "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene," they replied, "a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

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."

So they approached the village where they were going. He acted as though he wanted to go farther,

but they urged him, "Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done." So he went in to stay with them.

At this point their eyes were opened and they recognized him. Then he vanished out of their sight.

They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"

So they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven and those with them gathered together

Then they told what had happened on the road, and how they recognized him when he broke the bread.

While they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."

But they were startled and terrified, thinking they saw a ghost.

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?"

So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,

So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

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

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

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

When John's two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, "What do you want?" So they said to him, "Rabbi" (which is translated Teacher), "where are you staying?"

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

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

Jesus told the servants, "Fill the water jars with water." So they filled them up to the very top.

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward," and they did.

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

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.

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

So they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified -- see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!"

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

So they left the town and began coming to him.

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?"

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

They said to the woman, "No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world."

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon the fever left him."

They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your mat and walk'?"

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.

A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

When they were all satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted."

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.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

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

So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

So then they said to him, "What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?"

So they said to him, "Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

So they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time!"

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.

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, "This really is the Prophet!"

None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?

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