But we kept hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel. What is more, this is now the third day since these things occurred.

Even some of our women have startled us by what they told us. They were at the tomb early this morning

Then the two men began to tell what had happened on the road and how they had recognized him when he broke the bread in pieces.

But Jesus told them, "What's frightening you? And why are you doubting?

I am sending to you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

And many more believed because of what he said.

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words?"

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform God's works?"

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

Moreover, the one who sent me is with me. He has never left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"

Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the Father's hand.

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

And I know that what he commands brings eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me."

Jesus answered him, "You don't realize now what I'm doing, but later on you'll understand."

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right because that is what I am.

Then he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Do quickly what you are going to do!"

Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.

Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe me because of what I've been doing.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

But I'm doing what the Father has commanded me, to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place."

You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

Remember what I told you: "A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: "They hated me for no reason.'

He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, "He will take what is mine and declare it to you.'

At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, "because I am going to the Father'?"

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified through them.

This was to fulfill what he had said, "I did not lose a single one of those you gave me."

Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I said. These are the people who know what I said."

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? It is your own nation and high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

Pilate asked him, "What is "truth'?" and then he went out to the Jewish leaders again and told them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

Jesus answered him, "You have no authority over me at all, except what was given to you from above. That's why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

Carrying the cross all by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

Pilate replied, "What I have written I have written."

So they told each other, "Let's not tear it. Instead, let's throw dice to see who gets it." This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they threw dice." So that is what the soldiers did.

So Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I've seen the Lord!" She also told them what he had told her.

Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. This is what happened:

Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, Jesus told him, "Keep following me."

When Peter saw him, he said, "Lord, what about him?"

While he was meeting with them, he ordered them, "Don't leave Jerusalem. Instead, wait for what the Father has promised, about which you heard me speak,

He answered them, "It isn't for you to know what times or periods the Father has fixed by his own authority.

All of them continued to be stunned and puzzled, and they kept asking one another, "What can this mean?"

Rather, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

He has been exalted to the right hand of God, has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, and has caused you to experience what you are seeing and hearing.

When the crowd that had gathered heard this, they were pierced to the heart. They asked Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what should we do?"

The believers continued to devote themselves to what the apostles were teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to times of prayer.