Then let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them who are in the midst of it depart from it; and let not them that are in the countries enter into it.

"And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity from the noise of the sea and [its] surging,

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 and lift up your heads [i.e., in anticipation], for your redemption [i.e., deliverance, either from destruction or condemnation] is getting closer."

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching. [Note: This was the annual Jewish festival commemorating Israel's deliverance from Egyptian bondage under Moses' leadership].

And he agreed, and began looking for a favorable opportunity to betray him to them apart from the crowd.

for I say unto you, I shall not drink from henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.

And, they, began to be enquiring together, among themselves, as to which, then, it could be, from among them, who, this thing, was about to perpetrate!

But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

And he was parted from them about a stone's cast; and he kneeled down and prayed,

saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.

And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.

And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto the disciples, and found them sleeping for sorrow,

And a certain one from among them smote the bondman of the high priest and took off his right ear.

And having seized him, they led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from afar.

And after a little while, another man having see him, said, Thou also are from them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.

And about an hour later someone else stated emphatically, "I know for sure that this man was also with him [i.e., Jesus], for he is from Galilee [too]." [Note: Peter's accent gave him away. See Matt. 26:73].

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. And Peter remembered the word from the Lord, and how he had told him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

But from henceforth shall the Son of man be seated at the right hand of the power of God.

And they said, What further need have we of witness? for we ourselves have heard from his own mouth.

Then the entire group of them [i.e., of the Jewish elders, priests and law experts] got up [from their Council meeting] and took Jesus to [governor] Pilate.

And they began to accuse him: "This is a man whom we found misleading our people, preventing them from paying taxes to the Emperor, and giving out that he himself is 'Christ, a King.'"

But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, and beginning from Galilee even unto this place.

And [when he] found out that he was from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him over to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem in those days.

And Herod seeing Jesus, rejoiced exceedingly: for from a long time, wishing to see Him, because He was hearing about Him; and he was hoping to see some miracle wrought by Him.

and from that day the enmity that had been between Pilate and Herod ended in friendship.

and said to them, "You brought this man to me on a charge of turning the people from allegiance, and here in your presence I have examined Him and do not find Him guilty of the charges you make against Him.

But they [loudly] shouted out all together, saying, “Away with this Man, and release Barabbas to us!”

And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.

And when they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to bear it after Jesus.

And when they came to the place called Kranium, there they crucified him, and the evil doers, truly one from the right, and one from the left.

People stood [around] watching [all this], while the leaders even sneered at Him, saying, "He saved other people; [now] let him save himself [i.e., from dying] if he [really] is the Christ, God's specially chosen one."

and sarcastically saying, “If you are [really] the King of the Jews, save Yourself [from death]!”

Now one of the criminals who were hanging from their crosses kept abusing Him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Then save yourself and us too!"

Then Jesus said to him, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise [Note: This is a place in God's presence, referred to as "the third heaven" (II Cor. 12:2-4), and where overcomers will be able to eat from "the tree of life" (Rev. 2:7)]."

But all his acquaintances, and the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed with him from Galilee, stood afar off, seeing these things.

And just then [there appeared] a member of the [Jewish] Council named Joseph from the city of Arimathea. He was a good man who tried to do what was right,

(this man was not consenting to their plan and deed), from Arimathea, {a Judean town}, who was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in a linen sheet and laid it in a tomb hewn out of rock, where no one had yet been laid.

The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

And the women who had been accompanying him from Galilee followed [and] saw the tomb and how his body was placed.

And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared; (and some others with them:) and found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre:

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

He is not here; for He has risen [from the dead]. [Do you not] remember what He told you when He was still in Galilee, saying,

The Son of man must be turned over into the hands of sinful men to be crucified, but the third day [He will] rise again [from the dead]?'"

and returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

Now the women who told these things to the apostles were Mary from Magdala; Joanna [Note: This was the wife of Chuzas, Herod's property manager. See Luke 8:3], and other women who were with them.

And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from Jerusalem.

but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.

And He replied, "What things?" And they said to Him, "The things concerning Jesus, from Nazareth, who was a prophet speaking powerful words and performing powerful deeds in front of God and all the people.

But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;

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

And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

And their eyes were opened, and they recognised him. And he disappeared from them.

And He disappeared from them. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, as He was talking with us by the way, and while He was opening to us the scriptures?

and learned from them that the Master had really risen and had been seen by Simon.

While they were talking about this, Jesus Himself [suddenly] stood among them and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

And while they still disbelieved from joy and wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything to eat here?

And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and from a bees honeycomb.

and he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day;

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

And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.

And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.

From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

This Word was from the first in relation with God.

All [things] came into being through him, and apart from him not one [thing] came into being that has come into being.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

a birth which they had not from circumcision, nor from the constitution of the body, nor the institution of man, but from God.

The Logos became incarnate, and had his tabernacle among us, being full of grace and truth; and we contemplated his glory, such glory as the Monogenes derived from the father.

For from his fullness we have all received, and grace after grace.

This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem, to ask him, who he was.

So, they asked him, "Who then [are you]? Are you Elijah [i.e., returned from the dead]?" But he answered, "[No], I am not." "[Then], are you the prophet [i.e., Moses. See Deut. 18:15-19]?" they asked. And he answered, "No."

And they had been sent from the Pharisees.

These things happened in Bethany on the east side of the Jordan River where John was immersing people. [Note: This was a different Bethany from the one just outside of Jerusalem].

and John testified, saying, I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

On the morrow, again, was John standing, and, from among his disciples, two;

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard this from John and followed him.

Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found [the one] whom Moses wrote [about] in the law, and the prophets wrote [about]--Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!"

And Nathanael said to him, What good can be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

Nathanael said to him, "From where do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, [when you] were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Then Jesus said to him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened up and the angels of God going up [from] and coming down on the Son of man" [i.e., probably a reference to angels ministering to Jesus' needs. See Matt. 4:6, 11; Luke 22:43].

Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from--but the servants who had drawn the water knew--the head steward summoned the bridegroom

And having made a whip from cords, he drove all out from the temple, both the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and turned over their tables.

And to the ones selling the doves he said, "Take these [things] away from here! Do not make my Father's house {a marketplace}!"

But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this;

and when he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembred that expression of his: and they believed the scripture, and what Jesus had said.

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

But there was a man from among the Pharisees, his name Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

who came to Jesus by night, and said to him, rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher sent from God: for no man can perform the miracles that you do, except God be 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."

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

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