"Rejoice in that day and exult, For your reward is great in heaven; For even so did their fathers to the prophets.

"Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you! For even so did their fathers to the false prophets.

"and so I did not think myself worthy to come to you; but speak the word, and let my man be cured.

Now when he drew near the gate of the city, behold, they were there carrying out one who was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.

And he who was dead sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother.

So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

"To What are they like, they are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another. "'We have piped to you,' they say, 'and you have not danced; we have wailed, and you did not cry.'

But Jesus said: "Some one did touch me; for I perceived that the power was proceeding out of me."

As he was speaking some one came from the house of the synagogue, saying. "Your daughter is dead! Do not trouble the Master."

The people were weeping and bewailing her, but he said: "Stop your wailing; for she is not dead, but asleep."

They began to laugh him to scorn, because they knew well that she was dead.

Now Herod, the Tetrarch, heard of all that was happening; and he was perplexed because of its being said by someone that John was risen from the dead;

This they did, and made them all sit down.

But they did not understand this saying; it was hidden from them so that they perceived it not, and they were sore afraid to ask him about his saying.

But they did not receive him because his face was set to go to Jerusalem.

And when his disciples, James and John, saw this they said, "Lord, are you willing for us to bid fire come down from heaven and destroy them?" As Elijah did.

"Leave the dead to bury their own dead," said Jesus to him, "go you and announce, far and wide the kingdom of God."

"A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell among bandits who both stripped him and beat him, and went off leaving him half dead.

And the Pharisee noticed, to his amazement, that he did not wash his hands before eating,

"Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

"Now if God so clothe the grass in the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

"The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes,

"but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

"I tell you no; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did."

As he said this, all adversaries were put to shame; and all the crowd rejoiced for the glorious things that he continually did.

"Go, tell that fox," he answered, "'Lo, today and tomorrow I am continuing to cast out demons and perform cures, and on the third day I finish my course.'

"Yet I must continue my journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it would never do for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

"'for this son of mine was dead and is alive again??e was lost and is found.'

"'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

"'Nay, Father Abraham,' he said 'but if some one went to them from the dead they would repent.'

"'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,' said Father Abraham, 'neither will they be persuaded if one should rise from the dead.'"

"Does he think the slave because he did the things that were commanded?

"Where, Master?" they asked him. "Where the dead body is," he answered, "there will the vultures be gathered together."

But they understood none of these sayings. His words were a mystery to them, and they did not know what he meant.

As soon as Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Come down quickly, Zaccheus, for today I must stay at your house."

"Today is salvation come to this house," said Jesus "since Zaccheus here is a son of Abraham.

"'For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what you did not sow.'

"He said to him, "'By your own words I will Judge you, you wicked slave. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man taking up what I did not lay down, reaping what I did not sow.

"'Then why did you not put my money into the bank, so that at my coming I might I might have gotten it back with interest?'

Day after day he continued to teach in the Temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, so did the rulers of the people.

So they reasoned among themselves. "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why did you not believe in him?'

So they answered that they did not know whence it was.

"but those who are counted worthy to reach that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

"But that the dead are raised, even Moses clearly implied in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord. "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.

"Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for to him all are alive.'

"Beware of the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and dote on salutations in the marketplaces, and on securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

Moreover, he said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or wallet or sandals, did you lack anything?" They answered him, "We lacked nothing.'

Then one of them did strike a blow at the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear.

"When daily I was with you in the temple you did not stretch out your hands to take me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness."

he who came from the Jewish town of Arimathea, and who was on the watch for the kingdom of God. He had not concurred in the designs and deed of the council.

and on entering they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

They were terrified, and bowed down their faces to the ground, but the men said to them. "Why are you seeking him who lives among the dead?

"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;

"Thereupon some of our own party to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said, but him they did not see."

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

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

He acknowledged??e did not deny it??ut acknowledged, "I am not the Christ."

I myself did not recognize him; I only came baptizing in water, in order that he might be openly shown to Israel."

And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets??esus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."

after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did;

and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

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

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

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.

But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place.

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

"Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

"In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus in reply, "Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread out of heaven;

"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.

After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.

For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

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

The officers answered, "Never yet did a man speak like this man."

They did not understand that he meant the Father,

"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.

"Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.'

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

"What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?"

He answered. "I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you wish to hear it again? Can it be that you, too, wish to become his disciples?"

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.

"All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. Come, let us go to him."

"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."

Jesus answered her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you should see the glory of God?"

Out came the dead man, wrapped hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face bound up in a napkin. Jesus said to them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary, and had seen what he did, believed on him;

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written concerning him, and what they had done to him.

Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing.

With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him.