He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow?

When he was near Bethphage and Bethany by the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples

Just as he was coming down the Mount of Olives and approaching the city, the whole throng of his disciples began to praise God loudly and joyfully, for all the wonders they had seen,

One day as he was teaching the people in the Temple, and preaching the good news, the high priests and scribes came up with the elders

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet."

Some of the scribes replied, "Master, that was a fine answer!"

The festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

But Satan entered into Judas, who was called Iscariot, a member of the Twelve.

And when he was handed a cup, he thanked God, and then said, "Take this and share it among you, for I tell you,

And they began to discuss with one another which of them it was who was going to do this.

And he said to them, "When I sent you out without any purse or bag or shoes, was there anything you needed?" They said, "No, nothing."

For I tell you that this saying of Scripture must find its fulfilment in me: 'He was rated an outlaw.' Yes, that saying about me is to be fulfilled!"

And he went out of the city and up on the Mount of Olives as he was accustomed to do, with his disciples following him.

While he was still speaking, a crowd of people came up, with the man called Judas, one of the Twelve, at their head, and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss him.

Those who were about him saw what was coming and said, "Master, shall we use our swords?"

When I was among you day after day in the Temple you never laid a hand on me! But you choose this hour, and the cover of darkness!"

A maid saw him sitting by the fire and looked at him and said, "This man was with him too."

About an hour later, another man insisted, "This man was certainly with him too, for he is a Galilean!"

and they blindfolded him, and asked him, "Show that you are a prophet! Who was it that struck you?"

As soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the high priests and scribes assembled, and brought him before their council, and said to him,

and learning that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he turned him over to Herod, for Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.

When Herod saw Jesus he was delighted, for he had wanted for a long time to see him, because he had heard about him and he hoped to see some wonder done by him.

(He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.

He was followed by a great crowd of people and of women who were beating their breasts and lamenting him.

For there was a notice above his head, "This is the king of the Jews!"

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole country, and lasted until three in the afternoon,

as the sun was in eclipse. And the curtain before the sanctuary was torn in two.

When the captain saw what had happened he praised God, and said, "This man was really innocent!"

Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the council, a good and upright man,

It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was just beginning.

The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was put there.

Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee,

And he said, "What is it?" They said to him, "About Jesus of Nazareth, who in the eyes of God and of all the people was a prophet mighty in deed and word,

But we were hoping that he was to be the deliverer of Israel. Why, besides all this, it is three days since it happened.

and could not find his body, but came back and said that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.

And they said to each other, "Did not our hearts glow when he was talking to us on the road, and was explaining the Scriptures to us?"

Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you??hat everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."

And as he was blessing them, he parted from them.

In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine.

It was he that was with God in the beginning.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was present.

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

and had no need of anybody's evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.

And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

Just then his disciples came back, and they were surprised to find him talking with a woman, yet no one of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live.

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

There was one man there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

And the man was immediately cured, and he picked up his mat and walked.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

Now the Jewish festival of the Passover was coming.

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

and got into a boat and started across the sea for Capernaum. By this time it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them;

a strong wind was blowing and the sea was growing rough.

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before?

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though he was one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.

But the Jewish camping festival was coming.

That was what he told them, and he stayed on in Galilee.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking where he was,

and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

But when the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

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.

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

He said these things in the treasury, as he was teaching in the Temple, and no one arrested him, because he was not yet ready.

They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, I existed before Abraham was born!"

His disciples asked him, "Master, for whose sin was this man born blind? For his own, or for that of his parents?"

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to let what God can do be illustrated in his case.

and said to him, "Go and wash them in the Pool of Siloam"?? name which means One who has been sent. So he went and washed them, and went home able to see.

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"