"Teacher, when will this be?" they asked him, "and what shall be the sign that these things are about to happen?"

"But before all these things happen, they will apprehend you and persecute you and deliver you to the synagogues and to prisons, and bring you before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

"Some of you they will put to death. And you shall be hated by all men for the sake of my name.

"They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive among the Gentiles, and Jerusalem shall be trampled under foot by the Gentiles, until the appointed times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

"and then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.

"Look at the fig tree and all the trees! When they put out their leaves you can see for yourselves that summer is coming.

They were delighted, and agreed to give him money.

"Where shall we get it ready?" they asked.

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

And they began to question among themselves which of them it could be who was going to do such a thing.

Moreover, he said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or wallet or sandals, did you lack anything?" They answered him, "We lacked nothing.'

"Master" they said, "here are two swords!" "That is enough," he answered.

Those who were around him, when they saw what was about to happen, said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with our swords?"

So they seized him and led him away, and took him to the house of the high priest; while Peter was following him a long way off.

And when they had lighted a fire in the center of the court, and had sat down together, Peter was taking his seat among them.

They would blindfold him and ask him. "Prophesy! Tell who struck you!"

And they said many other insulting things against him.

Then they all said, "Are you then the Son of God."

But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

Herod and Pilate became friends again from that very day; for before they had been at enmity between themselves.

but they continued to shout out and say, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day.

So Pilate gave sentence what they wished should be done.

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, the man whom they asked for; but Jesus he handed over to their will.

And when they led him away they took hold of Simon, a Cyrenean, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus.

"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.'

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

"For if this is what they do in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?"

When they came to the place called "The Skull," there they crucified him and the criminals also, one upon his right hand, and one upon his left.

Jesus kept saying, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided his garments among them, casting lots for them,

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes.

On the Sabbath Day they rested in obedience to the commandment, but in the deep dawn of the first day of the week they took the spices which they had prepared, and came to the tomb.

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

and on entering they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

While they were still perplexed over this, it happened that the two men stood near them in dazzling raiment.

They were terrified, and bowed down their faces to the ground, but the men said to them. "Why are you seeking him who lives among the dead?

Then they recollected his words,

and turning away from the tomb they told all this to the eleven, and to all the rest.

But the whole story seemed to them but an idle tale; and they disbelieved the women.

They were talking together about all these events,

and as they talked and discussed matter, Jesus himself drew near and began walking beside them.

But their eyes continued to be held that they should not recognize him even for an instant,

They stood still, looking sad. And one of them named Cleopas, answered him, "Do you sojourn alone in Jerusalem, that you do not know what things have been happening there these days?"

"What kind of things?" he answered. And they said: "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

"Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They went to his tomb at daybreak,

"and found that his body was not there; then they came and told us that besides they had seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

"Thereupon some of our own party to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said, but him they did not see."

When they drew near to the village to which they are were going, he appeared to be going farther.

But they urged him to stay with them, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent."

their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

"Were not our hearts burning within us," they said to each other, "while we were talking with him on the way, and he was opening to us the scriptures?"

So they rose and returned to Jerusalem that very hour, and found the Eleven and the others all met together,

Then they began to tell what happened on the road, and he was known to them when he broke the bread.

While they were yet speaking he stood among them and said, "Peace be to you!"

They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.

But while they still did not believe it for joy, and were filled with wonder, he asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?"

So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

And he led them out until they were over against Bethany; and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

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

"What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.

Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

The two disciples heard his exclamation, and they followed Jesus.

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

And when the wine ran short, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did;

Then some of John's disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him.

They left the city and set out to go to him.

"Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."

Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.

So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.

Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman.

When he reached Galilee, however, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they, too, had been at the feast.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?"

"in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

"You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,

A great crowd were following him, because they witnessed the signs which he was continually performing among those who were ill.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks he distributed them among those who were seated; in like manner also of the fish, as much as they wished,

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves??he broken pieces that were left after they had eaten.

So when the people saw the sign which he had performed, they said, "This is in the truth the Prophet who is to come into the world."

When Jesus perceived that they intended to seize him in order to make him a king, he retired again to the hill all by himself.

There they got in a boat, and started across the sea for Capernaum. The darkness had already fallen,

After they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea, and drawing near to the boat, and they were terrified;

Then they were willing to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the shore they were making for.

So, on the following day, when boats came from Tiberias near the place were they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks, they got into the boats themselves,

when they saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

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

"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"Ah, Sir," said they, "evermore give us this bread."

Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking.

"It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.

"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died.

So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?"