For these are to be the Days of Vengeance, when all that Scripture says will be fulfilled.

Alas for the women that are with child, and for those that are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great suffering in the land, and anger against this people.

As soon as they shoot, you know, as you look at them, without being told, that summer is near.

And so may you, as soon as you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.

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

Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.

Be on the watch at all times, and pray that you may have strength to escape all that is destined to happen, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

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

"Take this and share it among you. For I tell you that I shall not, after to-day, drink of the juice of the grape, till the Kingdom of God has come."

Yet see! the hand of the man that is betraying me is beside me upon the table!

True, the Son of Man is passing, by the way ordained for him, yet alas for that man by whom he is being betrayed!"

Then they began questioning one another which of them it could be that was going to do this.

So that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and be seated upon twelve thrones as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.

But I prayed for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. And you, when you have returned to me, are to strengthen your Brothers."

For, I tell you, that passage of Scripture must be fulfilled in me, which says--'He was counted among the godless'; indeed all that refers to me is finding its fulfillment."

And, when he reached the spot, he said to them: "Pray that you may not fall into temptation."

"Why are you asleep?" he asked them. "Rise and pray, that you may not fall into temptation."

On which Jesus said to him: "Judas, is it by a kiss that you betray the Son of Man?"

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";

The men that held Jesus kept making sport of him and beating him.

They blindfolded him and then questioned him. "Now play the Prophet," they said; "who was it that struck you?"

And they began to accuse him: "This is a man whom we found misleading our people, preventing them from paying taxes to the Emperor, and giving out that he himself is 'Christ, a King.'"

And, having satisfied himself that Jesus came under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who also was at Jerusalem at the time.

And Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, for before that there had been ill-will between them.

(Barabbas was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had broken out in the city and for murder.)

Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.

At that time people will begin to say to the mountains 'Fall on us,' and to the hills 'Cover us.'

But the other rebuked him. "Have not you," he said, "any fear of God, now that you are under the same sentence?

But very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, taking with them the spices that they had prepared.

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

How he said that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of wicked men, and be crucified, and rise again on the third day."

It happened that very day that two of the disciples were going to a village called Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem,

Talking together, as they went, about all that had just taken place.

But their eyes were blinded so that they could not recognize him.

"What is this that you are saying to each other as you walk along?" Jesus asked. They stopped, with sad looks on their faces,

And then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, said to Jesus: "Are you staying by yourself at Jerusalem, that you have not heard of the things that have happened there within the last few days?"

But we were hoping that he was the Destined Deliverer of Israel; yes, and besides all this, it is now three days since these things occurred.

And, not finding the body of Jesus there, came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he was alive.

Then Jesus said to them: "O foolish men, slow to accept all that the Prophets have said!

Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all through the Scriptures the passages that referred to himself.

Who told them that the Master had really risen, and had appeared to Simon.

Look at my hands and my feet, and you will know that it is I. Feel me, and look at me, for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see that I have."

"This is what I told you," he said, "when I was still with you--that everything that had been written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms, must be fulfilled."

"Scripture says that the Christ should suffer, and that he should rise again from the dead on the third day,

And that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed on his authority to all the nations--beginning at Jerusalem.

And now I am myself about to send upon you that which my Father has promised. But you must remain in the city until you have been invested with power from above."

That which came into being in him was Life; and the Life was the Light of Man;

He came as a witness--to bear witness to the Light that through him all men might believe.

That was the True Light which enlightens every man coming into the world.

"Who then are you?" they continued; "tell us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

It was of him that I spoke when I said 'After me there is coming a man who is now before me, for he was ever First.'

I myself did not know him, but, that he may be made known to Israel, I have come, baptizing with water."

This I have seen myself, and I have declared my belief that he is the Son of God."

"Come, and you shall see," he replied. So they went, and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four in the afternoon.

"Do you believe in me," asked Jesus, "because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You shall see greater things than those!

His disciples remembered that Scripture said--'Zeal for thy House will consume me.'

Afterwards, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the passage of Scripture, and the words which Jesus had spoken.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem, during the Passover Festival, many came to trust in him, when they saw the signs of his mission that he was giving.

And because he did not need that others should tell him what men were; for he could of himself read what was in men.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: "Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one could give such signs as you are giving, unless God were with him."

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Do not wonder at my telling you that you all need to be reborn.

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit."

"How can that be?" asked Nicodemus.

In truth I tell you that we speak of what we know, and state what we have seen; and yet you do not accept our statements.

That every one who believes in him may have Immortal Life."

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.

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

The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

For he who lives an evil life hates the light, and will not come to it, for fear that his actions should be exposed;

But he who acts up to the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be shown to have been done in dependence upon God.

You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.'

They who did accept his statement attested the fact that God is true.

He who believes in the Son has Immortal Life, while he who rejects the Son will not even see that Life, but remains under 'God's displeasure.'

Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

And, on his way, he came to a Samaritan town called Shechem, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

"How is it," replied the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask for water from a Samaritan woman like me?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans).

"If you knew of the gift of God," replied Jesus, "and who it is that is saying to you 'Give me some water,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you 'living water'."

"You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep," she said; "where did you get that 'living water?'

But whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst any more; but the water that I will give him shall become a spring welling up within him--a source of Immortal Life."

"Give me this water, Sir," said the woman, "so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water."

"For you have had five husbands, and the man with whom you are now living is not your husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth."

"I see, Sir, that you are a Prophet!" exclaimed the woman.

"It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem."

"Believe me," replied Jesus, "a time is coming when it will be neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem that you will worship the Father.

But a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father spiritually and truly; for such are the worshipers that the Father desires.

"I know," answered the woman, "that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming; when once he has come, he will tell us everything."

"Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?"

Do not you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!

Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for Immortal Life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.

I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have entered upon the results of their labor."

Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'

And they said to the woman: "It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world."

For he himself declared that 'a Prophet is not honored in his own country.'

When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.

When this man heard that Jesus had returned 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.

And, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.

So he asked them at what time the boy began to get better. "It was yesterday, about one o'clock," they said, "that the fever left him."

By this the father knew that it was at the very time when Jesus had said to him 'Your son is living'; and he himself, with all his household, believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"