They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"

He said to them, "Just after you enter the city, you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him to the house to which he goes,

When the time came, he took his place at the table, with the apostles about him.

For which is greater, the man at the table, or the servant who waits on him? Is not the man at the table? Yet I am like a servant among you.

Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go to prison and to death with you!"

He said to them, "But now, if a man has a purse let him take it, and a bag too. And a man who has no sword must sell his coat and buy one.

And he went out of the city and up on the Mount of Olives as he was accustomed to do, with his disciples following him.

While he was still speaking, a crowd of people came up, with the man called Judas, one of the Twelve, at their head, and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss him.

Jesus said to him, "Would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"

Those who were about him saw what was coming and said, "Master, shall we use our swords?"

But Jesus answered, "Let me do this much!" And he touched his ear and healed him.

And Jesus said to the high priests, captains of the Temple, and elders who had come to take him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a robber?

Then they arrested him and led him away and took him to the house of the high priest. And Peter followed at a distance.

A maid saw him sitting by the fire and looked at him and said, "This man was with him too."

But he denied it, and said, "I do not know him."

Shortly after, a man saw him and said, "You are one of them too!" But Peter said, "I am not!"

About an hour later, another man insisted, "This man was certainly with him too, for he is a Galilean!"

And the Master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the words the Master had said to him??"Before the cock crows today, you will disown me three times."

The men who had Jesus in custody flogged him and made sport of him,

and they blindfolded him, and asked him, "Show that you are a prophet! Who was it that struck you?"

And they said many other abusive things to him.

As soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the high priests and scribes assembled, and brought him before their council, and said to him,

Then they arose in a body and took him to Pilate,

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."

And Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "Yes."

and learning that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he turned him over to Herod, for Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.

When Herod saw Jesus he was delighted, for he had wanted for a long time to see him, because he had heard about him and he hoped to see some wonder done by him.

And he questioned him at some length, but he made him no answer.

Meanwhile the high priests and the scribes stood by and vehemently accused him.

And Herod and his guards made light of him and ridiculed him, and they put a gorgeous robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

and said to them, "You brought this man before me charged with misleading the people, and here I have examined him before you and not found him guilty of any of the things that you accuse him of.

Neither has Herod, for he has sent him back to us. You see he has done nothing to call for his death.

So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."

But they all shouted out, "Kill him, and release Barabbas for us!"

But they kept on shouting, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

And he said to them a third time, "Why, what has he done that is wrong? For I have found nothing about him to call for his death. So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.

He was followed by a great crowd of people and of women who were beating their breasts and lamenting him.

Two criminals were also led out to execution with him.

When they reached the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, with the criminals one at his right and one at his left.

while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"

The soldiers also made sport of him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

One of the criminals who were hanging there, abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us too!"

But the other reproved him and said, "Have you no fear even of God when you are suffering the same penalty?

And he said to him, "I tell you, you will be in Paradise with me today!"

And all his acquaintances and the women who had come with him from Galilee, stood at a distance looking on.

The women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?

but they were prevented from recognizing him.

and one of them named Cleopas said to him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know what has happened there lately?"

And he said, "What is it?" They said to him, "About Jesus of Nazareth, who in the eyes of God and of all the people was a prophet mighty in deed and word,

and how the high priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and had him crucified.

Then some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

but they urged him not to, and said, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.

Then their eyes were opened and they knew him, and he vanished from them.

And they told what had happened on the road, and how they had known him when he broke the bread in pieces.

And they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

(John testified to him and cried out??or it was he who said it??He who was to come after me is now ahead of me

The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

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

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

The woman said to him, "I see that you are a prophet, sir.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

Just then his disciples came back, and they were surprised to find him talking with a woman, yet no one of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.

The people went out of the town to see him.

Meanwhile the disciples urged him, saying, "Master, eat something."

So the disciples said to one another, "Do you suppose that someone has brought him something to eat?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

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

and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."

So when he reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen everything he had done at Jerusalem, at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.

When he heard that Jesus had come back 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.

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and marvels you will never believe!"