I will therefore, after flogging him, release him."

Then the whole crowd shouted out, "Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas."

For the third time he appealed to them. "But what crime has he committed? I have found in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore flog him, and let him go."

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.

"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?"

It was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

And all the crowds who had assembled to see this spectacle, after witnessing what had been done, were returning beating upon their breast.

But all his acquaintances and the women who had been his followers continued to stand at a distance, looking on.

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

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

It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James, and the rest of the women who were telling all this to the apostles.

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

They were talking together about all these events,

"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;

"But we were hoping that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this is the third day since these things happened.

"O foolish men," said Jesus, "slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

And beginning with Moses and the Prophets, he interpreted all the passages concerning himself.

"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,

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

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

Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, how all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me."

"and that repentance unto remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

"And I will send forth the promise of my Father upon you. But tarry in Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."

And it happened that while he was blessing them, that he parted from them and was carried into heaven.

All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light??o that all men might believe through him.

But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

For out of his fulness we have all received, yes, grace upon grace.

You shall see greater things than that! Believe me," he added, "you all shall see heaven opened wide, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

So he plaited a scourge of rushes, and drove all out of the temple??oth the sheep and oxen. He began to pour out the coins of the money-changers, and to overturn their tables,

His disciples recalled that it is written, The zeal of thine house will devour me.

"Destroy this temple," answered Jesus, "and in three days I will raise it up."

The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"

but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men,

Marvel not at my telling you, 'You must all be born again from above.'

"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.

If I have told you earthly things and yet none of you believe me, how will you believe if I tell you concerning heavenly things?

"He that comes from above is above all; but one who is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is above all.

"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?

Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"

"All who drink of this water," Jesus answered, "will thirst again;

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 living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."

"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."

"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers.

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

Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

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 came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

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

"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."

Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."

The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well;

"For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder.

"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.

"The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

"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.

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

"Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again;

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"you will not come to me that you may have life.

"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

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

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

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.

"Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life??hat which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father??od??as set his seal."

"Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

"For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."

answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

"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.

"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

"He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

He spoke these words while in the synagogue, while he was teaching in Capernaum.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

"If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."

Jesus answered them. "There was one thing I did, and you are all amazed.

"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

"But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from."

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

"You will search for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

He said these words in the Treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested him, because his hour was not yet come.

Then again he said them. "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I am going, you cannot come."

Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"

"That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

"and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

"So then, if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed.

"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.