There will be great earthquakes and pestilences and famines in various places, and there will be dreadful portents and awful signs in the sky.

But before all this takes place, people will arrest you and persecute you, and turn you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

It will furnish you an opportunity to testify.

for I will give you such wisdom of speech as all your opponents combined will not be able to resist and refute.

Yes, you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

and you will be continuously hated by everyone, because you bear my name.

And yet not a single hair on your head will perish.

By your endurance you will win your souls.

for these are the days of vengeance when all that is written in the Scriptures will be fulfilled.

Alas for the women who are pregnant and those who have nursing babies in those days! For there will be great misery in the land and wrath on this people.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under the feet of the heathen, until the times of the heathen come to full measure.

And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on earth despair of nations in bewilderment at the roaring of the sea and its waves,

men fainting with fear and apprehension of the things that are to come upon the world, for the powers of the sky will be shaken.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming on a cloud in overwhelming power and splendor.

Then He told them a story: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

"I solemnly say to you, this generation will not pass away before all this takes place.

Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

For it will come upon all who are living anywhere on the face of the earth,

But ever be watching and always praying, so that you may have strength to escape all this that is going to take place, and so you may take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

while all the people would rise early in the mornings and come to listen to Him in the temple.

He answered them, "Just after you enter the city, a man with a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters

Then he will show you a large room upstairs already furnished. There make the preparations."

For the Son of Man is going away, as it has been divinely decreed, but a curse will be on that man by whom He is betrayed!"

"Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat,

But He said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow today before you deny three times that you know me!"

Then He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, you did not need anything, did you?" They answered, "Nothing at all."

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet, not my will but always yours be done!"

While He was still speaking, look! a crowd had come up, and Judas, one of the Twelve, was their guide; and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss Him.

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

While I was among you day after day in the temple, you never laid a hand on me! But this is your opportunity, even the power which darkness gives you!"

But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you mean." And all at once, while he was still speaking, a cock crowed.

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter was reminded of the word that the Lord had spoken to him, "Before a cock crows today, you will disown me three times."

"Tell us, if you are the Christ." But He said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe me,

and if I ask you a question, you will not answer me.

But from today the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God."

Then they all asked, "Are you then the Son of God?" And He answered, "Yes, I am."

Then the whole body of them arose and brought Him to Pilate.

But they continued emphatically insisting, "He is exciting the people by teaching all over Judea. He started in Galilee and now He is here."

So he continued to question Him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all.

So I will flog Him and let Him go."

But they all together began to shout, "Away with this fellow, but let us have Barabbas released!

Then a third time he spoke to them, "Why, what wrong has He done? I have found nothing in Him deserving the death penalty. So I will flog Him and let Him go."

So he released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, whom they continued to demand, but turned Jesus over to their will.

For a time is coming when people will say, 'Happy are the women who are childless, and the women who have never borne and nursed babies!'

Then people will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall upon us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us up!'

For if they do this when the wood is green, what will they do when it is dry?"

So He said to him, "I solemnly say to you, this very day you will be in paradise with me."

It was already about noon, and darkness covered the whole country, and lasted until three o'clock,

And all the crowds who had come together for this sight, when they had seen what took place, returned to the city but continued to beat their breasts in grief.

But all His acquaintances, and the women who used to follow Him from Galilee in a group, were standing at a distance looking on.

[He is not here but has risen.] Remember what He told you while He was still in Galilee, when

and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the Eleven and all the rest.

and were talking together about all these things that had taken place.

And He said to them, "What sort of things?" They answered Him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who in the sight of God and of all the people became a prophet mighty in deed and word,

But we kept hoping that He was the One who was coming to set Israel free. Moreover, besides all this, it is now the third day since these things occurred.

Then He said to them, "O men sluggish in mind and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets have said!

Then He began with Moses and went through all the prophets and explained to them all the passages in the Scriptures about Himself.

So at once they got up and went back to Jerusalem and found the Eleven and their company all together,

Even while they were talking about these things, He took His stand among them Himself, [and said to them, "Peace to you!"]

So while they were still disbelieving for sheer joy and still wondering about it, He asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?"

Then He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you, that everything which is written about me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, had to be fulfilled."

and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem

And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. But you, on your part, must stay right here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

And while He was blessing them, He parted from them, and was taken up to heaven.

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

For from His bounty we have all received spiritual blessing after spiritual blessing.

For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

He frankly admitted, and did not try at all to deny it; yes, he frankly admitted, "I am not the Christ."

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where He was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with Him; it was about four in the afternoon.

Nathaniel said to Him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "While you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you, I saw you."

Jesus answered him, "Do you believe in me because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this."

Then He said to him, "I most solemnly say to you all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God going up, and coming down upon the Son of Man!"

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables.

His disciples recalled that the Scriptures say, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days."

Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

But He would not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men

and needed no testimony from anyone about them, for He well knew what was in human nature.

Never wonder at my telling you that you must all be born from above.

I most solemnly say to you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen what we are testifying to, yet you are all rejecting our testimony.

But whoever is in the habit of living the truth will come out in the daylight, that his actions may be shown to be performed with God's help."

He who comes from above is far above all others. He who springs from earth belongs to the earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is far above all others.

Whoever trusts in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever refuses to trust in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God continues to remain on him.

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

You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, are you, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with all his sons and flocks?"

Jesus answered her, "Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again;

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

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

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

While he was still coming down, his slaves met him and told him, "Your boy is going to live."

Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw him lying there, and when He found out that he had been in that condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."

And at once the man was well, and picked up his pallet, and went to walking. Now it was the Sabbath.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple court, and said to him, "See! You are now well. Stop sinning or something worse may befall you."