Jesus told them, "Those who belong to this age marry and are married,

Now Jesus looked up and saw rich people dropping their gifts into the offering box.

Now during the day Jesus would teach in the Temple, but when evening came he would go out and spend the night on what is called the Mount of Olives.

So he went off and discussed with the high priests and the Temple police how he could betray Jesus to them.

Judas accepted their offer and began to look for a good opportunity to betray Jesus to them when no crowd was present.

So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover meal."

So they went and found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table, along with his apostles.

But Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know me."

Then Jesus asked his disciples, "When I sent you out without a wallet, traveling bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing at all."

While Jesus was still speaking, a crowd arrived. The man called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them, and he came close to Jesus to kiss him.

But Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"

When those who were around Jesus saw what was about to take place, they asked, "Lord, should we attack with our swords?"

But Jesus said, "No more of this!" So he touched the wounded man's ear and healed him.

Then Jesus told the high priests, the Temple police, and the elders, who had come for him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a bandit?

Then the men who were holding Jesus in custody began to make fun of him while they beat him.

When he learned with certainty that Jesus came from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at that time.

Now Herod was very glad to see Jesus, because he had been wanting to see him for a long time on account of what he had heard about him. He was also hoping to see some sign done by him.

So he continued to question him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all.

Even Herod and his soldiers treated him with contempt and made fun of him. He put a magnificent robe on Jesus and sent him back to Pilate.

But Pilate wanted to let Jesus go, so he appealed to them again,

But they kept pressing him with loud shouts, demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their shouts began to prevail.

So he released the man who had been put in prison for revolt and murder the man whose release they continued to demand but he let them have their way with Jesus.

As they led Jesus away, they grabbed Simon, a man from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, stop crying for me. Instead, cry for yourselves and for your children,

Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.

Jesus kept saying, "Father, forgive them, because they don't know what they're doing." Then they divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.

The soldiers also made fun of Jesus by coming up and offering him sour wine,

Then he went on to plead, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!"

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise."

Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit." After he said this, he breathed his last.

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

So the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee, following close behind, saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

but when they went in, they didn't find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Then the women remembered Jesus' words.

On the same day, two of Jesus' followers were walking to a village called Emmaus, about 60 stadia from Jerusalem.

While they were discussing and analyzing what had happened, Jesus himself approached and began to walk with them,

They answered him, "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in what he said and did before God and all the people, and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

Then Jesus told them, "O, how foolish you are! How slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!

As they came near the village where the two men were headed, Jesus acted as though he were going farther.

While they were all talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and told them, "Peace be with you."

But Jesus told them, "What's frightening you? And why are you doubting?

Even though they were still skeptical due to their joy and astonishment, Jesus asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

As he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"

When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus.

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

The next day, Jesus decided to go away to Galilee, where he found Philip and told him, "Follow me."

Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

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

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples and they remained there for a few days.

The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?

After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside. He spent some time there with them and began baptizing.

Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples

Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

"I am he," Jesus replied, "the one who is speaking to you."

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days.

Two days later, Jesus left for Galilee from there,

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!"

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."