saying, 'Go into the village in front of [you], in which [as you] enter you will find a colt tied, on which {no person has ever} sat, and untie it [and] bring [it].

So those who were sent went [and] found [it] just as he had told them.

And [as] they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, 'Why are you untying the colt?'

And [as] he was going along, they were spreading out their cloaks on the road.

Now [as] he was drawing near by this time to the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen,

saying, "Blessed [is] the king, the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"

saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

and said, saying to him, "Tell us, by what authority you are doing these [things], or who is the one who gave you this authority?

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

But [when] the tenant farmers saw him, they began to reason with one another, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance will become ours!'

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}.'

Is it permitted [for] us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

"Show me a denarius! Whose image and inscription does it have?" And they answered [and] said, "Caesar's."

Now some of the Sadducees--who deny {that there is a resurrection}--came up [and] asked him,

saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us if someone's brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.

Therefore in the resurrection, the woman--whose wife will she be? For the seven had her [as] wife."

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!"

But he said to them, "In what sense do they say [that] the Christ is David's son?

David therefore calls him 'Lord,' and how is he his son?"

"[As for] these [things] that you see--days will come in which not [one] stone will be left on [another] stone that will not be thrown down!"

And he said, Watch out that you are not deceived! For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am [he],' and 'The time is near!' Do not go after them!

people fainting from fear and expectation of what is coming on the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

But [when] these [things] begin to happen, stand up straight and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near!"

When they put out [foliage], now you see for yourselves [and] know that by this time the summer is near.

So also you, when you see these [things] happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

So [throughout] the days he was teaching in the temple [courts], and [throughout] the nights he was going out [and] spending the night on the hill that is called [the Mount] of Olives.

Now the feast of Unleavened Bread (which is called Passover) was drawing near.

And he sent Peter and John, saying, "Go [and] prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat [it].

So they said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare [it]?"

And you will say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?" '

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

For I tell you that I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

And he took bread, [and] [after] giving thanks, he broke [it] and gave [it] to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

And in the same way the cup after [they] had eaten, saying, "This cup [is] the new covenant in my blood which is poured out for you.

"But behold, the hand of the one who is betraying me [is] with me on the table!

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

And a dispute also occurred among them as to which of them was recognized as being greatest.

But you [are] not [to be] like this! But the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

For who [is] greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? [Is it] not the one who reclines at the table? But I am in your midst as the one who serves.

and I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred on me,

For I tell you that this that is written must be fulfilled in me: 'And he was counted with the criminals.' For indeed, [what is written] about me {is being fulfilled}."

So they said, "Lord, behold, here [are] two swords!" And he said to them, "It is adequate."

And Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come out against him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber?

Every day [when] I was with you in the temple [courts], you did not stretch out [your] hands against me! But this is your hour and the domain of darkness!"

And [after] about one hour had passed, someone else was insisting, saying, "In truth this man also was with him, because he is also a Galilean!"

and [after] blindfolding him they repeatedly asked [him], saying, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"

saying, "If you are the Christ, tell us!" But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will never believe,

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding [us] to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying [he] himself is Christ, a king!"

But they insisted, saying, "He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here."

[and] said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people, and behold, [when I] examined [him] before you, I found nothing in this man as basis for the accusation which {you are making} against him

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

But they all cried out in unison, saying, "Take this man away, and release for us Barabbas!"

And as they led him away, they seized Simon, a certain [man] of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, [and] placed the cross on him, to carry [it] behind Jesus.

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

For if they do these [things] {when the wood is green}, what will happen {when it is dry}?"

And when they came to the place that is called "The Skull," there they crucified him, and the criminals, the one on [his] right and the other on [his] left.

And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed [him], saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this [man] is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

And there was also an inscription over him, "This [is] the king of the Jews."

And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself--and us!"

And [as] they were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, "Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

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

And these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they refused to believe them.

And he said to them, "What [are] these matters that you are discussing with one another [as you] are walking along?" And they stood still, looking sad.

But we were hoping that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. But in addition to all these [things], this [is] the third day {since} these [things] took place.

But also some women from among us astonished us, who were at the tomb early in the morning,

And some of those with us went out to the tomb and found [it] like this, just as the women had also said, but him they did not see."

And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he acted as though he was going farther.

And they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is [getting] toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent." And he went in to stay with them.

And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"

Look at my hands and my feet, that I am I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as {you see that I have}."

And he said to them, "These [are] my words that I spoke to you [while I] was still with you, that everything that is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled."

and said to them, "Thus it is written [that] the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them.

A man came, sent from God, {whose name was} John.

But as many as received him--to those who believe in his name--he gave to them authority to become children of God,

And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed 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.

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, "Who are you?"

Then they said to him, "Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"

He said, "I [am] 'the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," ' just as Isaiah the prophet said."

This one is [the one] about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, '[The one] upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him--this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

And I have seen and testify that this one is the Chosen One of God.

and looking at Jesus [as he] was walking by, he said, "Look! The Lamb of God!"

This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ").

He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter").

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, "Look! {A true Israelite} in whom is no deceit!"

His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

Now there was a man of the Pharisees {whose name was} Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

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, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born [when he] is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb for the second time and be born, [can he]?"

Jesus answered, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'It is necessary for you to be born from above.'

The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man be lifted up,

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.