"And upon his return after he had secured the royal power, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he might know what they had gained by trading.

"'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.

"'I tell you that to every one who has it shall be given; and from him who has not shall be taken away even what he has.

exclaiming. "Oh that at this time you knew, yes, even you, on what your peace depends! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

They spoke to him saying. "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things? Who is it that gave you this authority?"

"Then the master of the vineyard said: "'What shall I do? I will send my beloved Son; it may be that they will reverence him.'

"So they turned him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What will the master of the vineyard do to them?

He looked at them and said: "Then what does this scripture mean. "The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner?

So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly.

"Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."

"As for what you are looking at, the time is coming when not one stone will be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down."

"Teacher, when will this be?" they asked him, "and what shall be the sign that these things are about to happen?"

Those who were around him, when they saw what was about to happen, said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with our swords?"

"Man," said Peter, "I do not know what you mean." And immediately, while he was still speaking, the cock crew.

"What need we of further evidence? for we ourselves have heard it from his own lips."

For the third time he appealed to them. "But what crime has he committed? I have found in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore flog him, and let him go."

So Pilate gave sentence what they wished should be done.

"For if this is what they do in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?"

Jesus kept saying, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided his garments among them, casting lots for them,

"We indeed justly, for we are receiving due retribution for what we have done. But he has done no wrong."

When the army captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent!"

And all the crowds who had assembled to see this spectacle, after witnessing what had been done, were returning beating upon their breast.

And he said to them, "What words are these that you are exchanging one with another, as you walk along?"

They stood still, looking sad. And one of them named Cleopas, answered him, "Do you sojourn alone in Jerusalem, that you do not know what things have been happening there these days?"

"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;

Then they began to tell what happened on the road, and he was known to them when he broke the bread.

"What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.

Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

One of the two men who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

"Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time is not yet come."

Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"

But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

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

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

"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.

but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."

He bears testimony to what he has heard and seen, yet no one receives his testimony.

You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman.

"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."

So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."

So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also.

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he intended to do.

"There is a lad who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"

"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"for the bread of God is what come down from heaven, and gives life to the world."

"Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

"The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.

"What does he mean saying, 'You shall seek me and you shall not find me,' and 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

"Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?"

"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

"Who are you?" then they asked him. "What I am telling you from the beginning," Jesus answered.

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been in slavery to any man. What do you mean by saying, 'You shall become free'?"

"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."

"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

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

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

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

but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

"What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people."

So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think??hat he will not come to the feast at all?"

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

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.

Now is my soul disquieted. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, for this very cause I am come to this hour.

(In saying this he was signifying by what kind of death he was to die.)

Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"

because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak.

Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later."

"Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am.

for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.

So when he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. And after he had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "What you do, do quickly," said Jesus.

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

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

"Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

He will glorify me; for he will take of what is mine and will make known to you.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he will take of what is mine and make it known to you.

At this some of his disciples said among themselves. "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me,' and 'because I am going to the Father'?"

So they kept asking. "What does that 'little while' mean of which he speaks? We do not know what he is talking about."

"Why do you question me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them; these witnesses here know what I said."

Jesus replied "If I have said anything wrong, give evidence concerning the wrong; but if I said what was true, why do you strike me?"

So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"

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

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

and entering the Praetorium again, he said to Jesus, "What is your origin?"

On hearing what they said, Pilate brought Jesus out and made him sit on the judge's seat in a place called the Mosaic Pavement (the Hebrew name is Gabbatha).

And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS"

Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"

so the soldiers said one to another. "Let us not tear it. Let us draw lots, to see whose it shall be"??hat the Scripture might be fulfilled. They divided my garments among them, For my raiment did they cast lots. This was what the soldiers did.

This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God. After speaking thus, he said to him, "Follow me."

On catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, what about him?"

"If I choose that he remain until I come," said Jesus, "what is that to you? Do you follow me."

Accordingly the report spread among the brothers that this disciple should not die; but Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said, "If I choose that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

we all hear these men telling in our own tongue what great things God has done."

All were astonished and bewildered and kept saying to one another, "What can this mean?"