And if anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying [it]?' you will say this: 'The Lord has need of it.'"

So they said, 'The Lord has need of it.'

And they will dash thee to the ground and thy children within thee, and will not leave one stone upon another within thee; because thou hast not recognized the time of thy visitation."

Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves.

and spoke to him saying, Tell us by what authority thou doest these things, or who is it who has given thee this authority?

But he looked intently at them [and] said, "What then is this that is written: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}.'

And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and hast no regard to the person of men, but teachest the way of God truly.

Shew me a denarius. Whose image and superscription has it? And answering they said, Caesar's.

demanded of him saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother, who has a wife, die, and he die childless, his brother shall take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.

In the resurrection, therefore, which of them has her for a wife? for the seven had her for a wife.

And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead.

But that the dead are raised, even Moses at the bush has demonstrated, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

And certain of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou hast well said.

For David himself in the Book of Psalms says: 'The Lord has said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

And he said, Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all;

for all these out of their abundance have cast into the gifts of God; but she out of her need has cast in all the living which she had.

And certain speaking of the temple, that it has been arranged with beautiful stones and decorations, he said,

And he said, Watch that ye may not be led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, I am, and, The time has come near. Go ye not therefore after them.

And when you hear of wars and tumults, never be panic-stricken. For this has to take place first, but the end will not come all at once."

"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.

I tell you that even the present generation will not pass away till all has taken place.

For I tell you that I shall not eat it again, until it has had its fulfillment in the Kingdom of God."

For I say to you, I will not take of the fruit of the vine till the kingdom of God has come.

For the Son of Man is going according to what has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!"

And I appoint unto you, as my Father has appointed unto me, a kingdom,

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat,

but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.

But He replied, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before thou hast thrice denied that thou knowest me.

And he said to them, "But now the one who has a money bag must take [it], and likewise a traveler's bag. And the one who does not have a sword must sell his cloak and buy [one].

For I say to you that these words will be put into effect in me, And he was numbered among the evil-doers: for what has been said in the Writings about me has an end.

When I was with you every day in the Temple you did not raise a hand against me. But this is your hour [i.e., the time for you to act against me] and the power of darkness [has now taken over]."

And the Master turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the words that the Master had said to him-- "Before a cock has crowed to-day, you will disown me three times";

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

And Pilate said to the chief priests and the people, In my opinion this man has done no wrong

But they became more violent than before, saying, He has made trouble among the people, teaching through all Judaea from Galilee to this place.

You say that this man has been teaching the people evil things: now I, after going into the question before you, see nothing wrong in this man in connection with the things which you have said against him

But neither [did] Herod, because he sent him back to us. And behold, nothing deserving death {has been done} by him.

Then he said to them the third time, "Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no crime deserving death. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

So he said to them a third [time], "Why? What wrong has this man done? I found no basis for an accusation {deserving death} in him. Therefore I will punish him [and] release [him]."

And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also with them sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.

But the other addressing him, rebuked him, saying, Hast thou no fear of God, when thou art under the same condemnation?

And we indeed justly, for we are receiving {what we deserve} [for] what we have done. But this man has done nothing wrong!"

Then taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no man has ever been laid.

He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he spoke to you [while he] was still in Galilee,

And one of them, named Cleopas, answering said to him, Thou sojournest alone in Jerusalem, and dost not know what has taken place in it in these days?

But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;

And they constrained him, saying, Remain with us, because it is toward evening, and the day has declined. And he went in to remain with them.

saying, "The Lord has really been raised, and has appeared to Simon!"

behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me having.

then he said, this is what I told you, while I was yet with you, that what has been written concerning me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the psalms, must be all accomplished.

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,

And now I will send to you what my father has undertaken to give you, but do not go from the town, till the power from heaven comes to you.

All [things] came into being through him, and apart from him not one [thing] came into being that has come into being.

So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

But to all who have received him -- those who believe in his name -- he has given the right to become God's children

(John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)

No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father--that one has made [him] known.

He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

Philip findeth Nathaniel, and saith to him, We have found him whom Moses in the law has described, and the prophets, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is of Nazareth.

And Jesus said to her, "What {does your concern have to do with me}, woman? My hour has not yet come."

and saith unto him, Every man setteth on first the good wine; and when men have drunk freely, then that which is worse: thou hast kept the good wine until now.

And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has consumed me.

Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

Jesus answered and said to him, I tell you most truly, unless one has been born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'

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

So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

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

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

And they came unto John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

John replied to them, "A person cannot receive anything, unless it has been given to him from [God in] heaven.

The one 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 complete.

He has to become greater while I become less.

He who comes from above is above all. He who has his origin in the earth is of the earth, and speaks as of the earth. He who comes out of heaven is above all,

What he has seen and heard, this he testifies, and no one accepts his testimony.

The one who accepts his testimony has attested that God is true.

for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure.

The Father loves the Son and has given all [things] into his hand.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life--but the wrath of God remains on him.

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?

The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;

for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.

But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.

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."

Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one brought him anything to eat?

Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.

and said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of what thou hast spoken; for we ourselves have heard Him, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.

he having heard that Jesus has come out of Judea into Galilee, came away to Him, and continued to ask Him that He may come down and heal his son; for He was about to die.

"You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;

Then the father recollected that that was the time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son has recovered," and he and his whole household became believers.