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Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were going out to him,

But John tried to stop him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me? ”

Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

Then the devil left him, and angels came and began to serve him.

“No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.

“If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, pleading with him,

When Jesus saw a large crowd[fn] around him, he gave the order to go to the other side of the sea.

So the disciples came and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We're going to die! ”

“If you drive us out,” the demons begged him, “send us into the herd of pigs.”

At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that whole area.

“But whoever denies me before others, I will also deny him before my Father in heaven.

There he saw a man who had a shriveled hand, and in order to accuse him they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? ”

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, how they might kill him.

He warned them not to make him known,

Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

“As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

For Herod had arrested John, chained[fn] him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

Though Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd since they regarded John as a prophet.

Immediately he[fn] made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.

When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified. “It's a ghost! ” they said, and they cried out in fear.

When the men of that place recognized him, they alerted the whole vicinity and brought to him all who were sick.

Jesus did not say a word to her. His disciples approached him and urged him, “Send her away because she's crying out after us.”

The Pharisees and Sadducees approached, and tested him, asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

From then on Jesus began to point out to his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.

So the disciples asked him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? ”

“But I tell you: Elijah has already come, and they didn't recognize him. On the contrary, they did whatever they pleased to him. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”

“I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn't heal him.”

“Yes,” he said.

When he went into the house, Jesus spoke to him first,[fn] “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tariffs or taxes? From their sons or from strangers? ”[fn]

“And if your eye causes you to fall away, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire.[fn]

“If your brother sins against you,[fn] go tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.

“Since he did not have the money to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

“That servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii.[fn] He grabbed him, started choking him, and said, ‘Pay what you owe! '

“Then, after he had summoned him, his master said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

“And because he was angry, his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he could pay everything that was owed.

Some Pharisees approached him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds? ”

“See, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death.

He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves! ”

“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance.'

Although they were looking for a way to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because the people regarded him as a prophet.

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot,[fn] and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap him by what he said.[fn]

When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test him:

He asked them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit,[fn] calls him ‘Lord':

“If David calls him ‘Lord,' how, then, can he be his son? ”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make one convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as you are!

“He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And from that time he started looking for a good opportunity to betray him.

Judas, his betrayer, replied, “Surely not I, Rabbi? ”

“You have said it,” he told him.

After leaving them, he went away again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.

His betrayer had given them a sign: “The one I kiss, he's the one; arrest him.”

“But all this has happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted him and ran away.

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death,

When he had gone out to the gateway, another woman saw him and told those who were there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene! ”

After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate,[fn] the governor.

Now Jesus stood before the governor. “Are you the king of the Jews? ” the governor asked him.

Jesus answered, “You say so.”

While he was sitting on the judge's bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I've suffered terribly in a dream because of him.”

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the governor's residence and gathered the whole company[fn] around him.

Then they spat on him, took the staff, and kept hitting him on the head.

After crucifying him, they divided his clothes by casting lots.[fn]

Those who passed by were yelling insults at[fn] him, shaking their heads

“So give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come, steal him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

“Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there.' Listen, I have told you.”

and told them, “Say this, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him while we were sleeping.'

When they saw him, they worshiped,[fn] but some doubted.

The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

Immediately the Spirit drove him into the wilderness.

And the unclean spirit threw him into convulsions, shouted with a loud voice, and came out of him.

When evening came, after the sun had set, they brought to him all those who were sick and demon-possessed.

Simon and his companions searched for him,

Then a man with leprosy[fn] came to him and, on his knees,[fn] begged him, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”

Yet he went out and began to proclaim it widely and to spread the news, with the result that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly. But he was out in deserted places, and they came to him from everywhere.

They came to him bringing a paralytic, carried by four of them.

While he was reclining at the table in Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating[fn] with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.

On the Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, picking some heads of grain.

In order to accuse him, they were watching him closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath.

Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against him, how they might kill him.

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God! ”

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent word to him and called him.

Looking at those sitting in a circle around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

Again he began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around him. So he got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was by the sea on the shore.

When he was alone, those around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables.

So they left the crowd and took him along since he was in the boat. And other boats were with him.

He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher! Don't you care that we're going to die? ”

He lived in the tombs, and no one was able to restrain him anymore ​— ​not even with a chain ​— ​

And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the region.

The demons[fn] begged him, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

Then they began to beg him to leave their region.

One of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet

For Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he had married her.

So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

The king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring John's head. So he went and beheaded him in prison,

but many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they ran on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.[fn]

When they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out,

As they got out of the boat, people immediately recognized him.

Wherever he went, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch just the end of his robe. And everyone who touched it was healed.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him.

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don't your disciples live[fn] according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ceremonially unclean[fn] hands? ”

“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

“Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”[fn]

When he went into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.

The woman was a Gentile,[fn] a Syrophoenician by birth, and she was asking him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking and begged Jesus to lay his hand on him.

They came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.

Again Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes. The man looked intently and his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly.

He spoke openly about this. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

“For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? ”

When the whole crowd saw him, they were amazed and ran to greet him.

“Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't.”

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Then it came out, shrieking and throwing him into terrible convulsions. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He's dead.”

But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask him.

Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? ”

As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? ”

Looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come,[fn] follow me.”

“See, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death. Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles,

and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.

He was teaching them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves! ”

They came again to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came

He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

“But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

“He still had one to send, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.'

They were looking for a way to arrest him but feared the crowd because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him:

“And to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding,[fn] and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

“David himself calls him ‘Lord.' How, then, can he be his son? ” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

While he was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

It was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a cunning way to arrest Jesus and kill him.

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.

Once again he went away and prayed, saying the same thing.

His betrayer had given them a signal. “The one I kiss,” he said, “he's the one; arrest him and take him away under guard.”

They took hold of him and arrested him.

Then they all deserted him and ran away.

But he kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One? ”

“You have heard the blasphemy. What is your decision? ” They all condemned him as deserving death.

When the maidservant saw him again, she began to tell those standing nearby, “This man is one of them.”

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews? ”

He answered him, “You say so.”

Pilate questioned him again, “Aren't you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you of! ”

For he knew it was because of envy that the chief priests had handed him over.

The soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor's residence) and called the whole company together.

After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple robe and put his clothes on him.

They led him out to crucify him.

They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull).

Then they crucified him and divided his clothes, casting lots for them to decide what each would get.

Those who passed by were yelling insults at[fn] him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had already died.

After he bought some linen cloth, Joseph took him down and wrapped him in the linen. Then he laid him in a tomb cut out of the rock and rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.

“But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there just as he told you.' ”

Later he appeared to the Eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table. He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who saw him after he had risen.

When his division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.

Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David,

Then she gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him tightly in cloth and laid him in a manger,[fn] because there was no guest room available for them.

And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were finished, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

Assuming he was in the traveling party, they went a day's journey. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.

When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”

“What then should we do? ” the crowds were asking him.

Some soldiers also questioned him, “What should we do? ”

He said to them, “Don't take money from anyone by force or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.”

But Jesus answered him, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone.”[fn]

So he took him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here.

They got up, drove him out of town, and brought him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl him over the cliff.

But Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be silent and come out of him! ” And throwing him down before them, the demon came out of him without hurting him at all.

After he left the synagogue, he entered Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him about her.

Also, demons were coming out of many, shouting and saying, “You are the Son of God! ” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.

He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then he sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat.

For he and all those with him were amazed at the catch of fish they had taken,

While he was in one of the towns, a man was there who had leprosy[fn] all over him. He saw Jesus, fell facedown, and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

Just then some men came, carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before him.

On a Sabbath, he passed through the grainfields. His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

On another Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. A man was there whose right hand was shriveled.

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, requesting him to come and save the life of his servant.

Jesus went with them, and when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to tell him, “Lord, don't trouble yourself, since I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.

When the men reached him, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask you, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else? ' ”

Then one of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table.

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him ​— ​she's a sinner! ”

As a large crowd was gathering, and people were coming to Jesus from every town, he said in a parable,

Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean? ”

“No one, after lighting a lamp, covers it with a basket or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in may see its light.

Then his mother and brothers came to him, but they could not meet with him because of the crowd.

But he replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”

They came and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master, we're going to die! ”

Then he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. So they ceased, and there was a calm.

“What is your name? ” Jesus asked him.

“Legion,” he said, because many demons had entered him.

Then all the people of the Gerasene region[fn] asked him to leave them, because they were gripped by great fear. So getting into the boat, he returned.

When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him.

While he was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am? ”

As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white.

“A spirit seizes him; suddenly he shrieks, and it throws him into convulsions until he foams at the mouth; severely bruising him, it scarcely ever leaves him.

As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

But they did not understand this statement; it was concealed from them so that they could not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask him about it.

John responded, “Master, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he does not follow us.”

But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

“If a person of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

Then an expert in the law stood up to test him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? ”

Jesus took up the question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead.

“But a Samaritan on his journey came up to him, and when he saw the man, he had compassion.

He was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

He also said to them, “Suppose one of you[fn] has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

As he was saying these things, a woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the one who nursed you! ”

As he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at the table.

When he left there,[fn] the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him fiercely and to cross-examine him about many things;

“that servant's master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces[fn] and assign him a place with the unfaithful.[fn]

One Sabbath, when he went in to eat[fn] at the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away.

“The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,' and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place.

“Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.

“‘Your brother is here,' he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.'[fn]

“So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you can no longer be my manager.'

“One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side.[fn] The rich man also died and was buried.

“ ‘Father,' he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father's house ​— ​

While traveling to Jerusalem, he passed between[fn] Samaria and Galilee.

“But first it is necessary that he suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

“And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.'

A ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? ”

Seeing that he became sad,[fn] Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

As he approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.

Jesus stopped and commanded that he be brought to him. When he came closer, he asked him,

So he quickly came down and welcomed him joyfully.

“Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.

As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem, and they thought the kingdom of God was going to appear right away.

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those servants he had given the money to, so that he could find out how much they had made in business.

and said, “Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.

Then they brought it to Jesus, and after throwing their clothes on the colt, they helped Jesus get on it.

and he said, “It is written, my house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves! ”

Now he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went away for a long time.

“But when the tenant farmers saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let's kill him, so that the inheritance will be ours.'

Then the scribes and the chief priests looked for a way to get their hands on him that very hour, because they knew he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned him:

And they no longer dared to ask him anything.

“David calls him ‘Lord.' How, then, can he be his son? ”

“Teacher,” they asked him, “so when will these things happen? And what will be the sign when these things are about to take place? ”

Then all the people would come early in the morning to hear him in the temple.

So he accepted the offer and started looking for a good opportunity to betray him to them when the crowd was not present.

When those around him saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword? ”

Then Jesus said to the chief priests, temple police, and the elders who had come for him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a criminal?[fn]

They seized him, led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. Meanwhile Peter was following at a distance.

When a servant saw him sitting in the light, and looked closely at him, she said, “This man was with him too.”

After blindfolding him, they kept[fn] asking, “Prophesy! Who was it that hit you? ”

When daylight came, the elders[fn] of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought him before their Sanhedrin.

Then their whole assembly rose up and brought him before Pilate.

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews? ”

He answered him, “You say so.”[fn]

Finding that he was under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, mocked him, dressed him in bright clothing, and sent him back to Pilate.

“Neither has Herod, because he sent him back to us. Clearly, he has done nothing to deserve death.

A third time he said to them, “Why? What has this man done wrong? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore, I will have him whipped and then release him.”

When they arrived at the place called The Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.

“and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him.

“and when they didn't find his body, they came and reported that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.

But they urged him, “Stay with us, because it's almost evening, and now the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

And while he was blessing them, he left them and was carried up into heaven.

He was in the world, and the world was created through him, and yet the world did not recognize him.

This was John's testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you? ”

So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren't the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet? ”

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, he said, “You are Simon, son of John.[fn] You will be called Cephas” (which is translated “Peter”[fn]).

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Jesus, however, would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them all

“How can anyone be born when he is old? ” Nicodemus asked him. “Can he enter his mother's womb a second time and be born? ”

“so that everyone who believes in him may[fn] have eternal life.

“Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

He had to travel through Samaria;

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,' you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.”

In the meantime the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman said[fn] when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.

“Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my boy dies.”

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at one in the afternoon[fn] the fever left him,” they answered.

After this, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn't happen to you.”

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat? ”

Therefore, when Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

Then they were willing to take him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

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

“For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws[fn] him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

“The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since he did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill him.

So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples can see your works that you are doing.

The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he? ”

Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him?

Nicodemus ​— ​the one who came to him previously and who was one of them ​— ​said to them,

Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, making her stand in the center.

“You do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I keep his word.

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? ”

His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Isn't this the one who used to sit begging? ”

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

“But we don't know how he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he's of age. He will speak for himself.”

They ridiculed him: “You're that man's disciple, but we're Moses's disciples.

“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us? ” Then they threw him out.

Jesus answered, “You have seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”

The Jews surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense?[fn] If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”[fn]

Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

Many came to him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

So the sisters sent a message to him: “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died! ”

The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”

“If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray him), said,

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them[fn] and believing in Jesus.

Meanwhile, the crowd, which had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify.[fn]

So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

“If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

“The one who rejects me and doesn't receive my sayings has this as his judge:[fn] The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Now when it was time for supper, the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot's son,[fn] to betray him.

“If God is glorified in him,[fn] God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.

“If you know me, you will also know[fn] my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

“The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

“Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don't go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.

Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me'?

Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples.

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to him, went out and said to them, “Who is it that you're seeking? ”

Then the company of soldiers, the commander, and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus and tied him up.

Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Pilate told them, “You take him and judge him according to your law.”

“It's not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I'm bringing him out to you to let you know I find no grounds for charging him.”

When the chief priests and the temple servants[fn] saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify! ”

Pilate responded, “Take him and crucify him yourselves, since I find no grounds for charging him.”

Then he handed him over to be crucified.

Then they took Jesus away.[fn]

There they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.

When they came to Jesus, they did not break his legs since they saw that he was already dead.

For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he must rise from the dead.

“Woman,” Jesus said to her, “why are you crying? Who is it that you're seeking? ”

Supposing he was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you've carried him away, tell me where you've put him, and I will take him away.”

“If I want him to remain until I come,” Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”

And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if every one of them were written down, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books[fn] that would be written.

After he had suffered, he also presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time? ”

After he had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen him going into heaven.”

“God raised him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by death.

“Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”

Peter, along with John, looked straight at him and said, “Look at us.”

Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong.

All the people saw him walking and praising God,

“God raised up his servant[fn] and sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

The young men got up, wrapped his body, carried him out, and buried him.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, seized him, and took him to the Sanhedrin.

And all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

“Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living.

“And so he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

“and rescued him out of all his troubles. He gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over his whole household.

“When he was put outside, Pharaoh's daughter adopted and raised him as her own son.

“But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying: Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

“When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he was approaching to look at it, the voice of the Lord came:

Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,

and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,

so he does not open his mouth.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer but went on his way rejoicing.

As he traveled and was nearing Damascus, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around him.

Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

There was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.”

“Here I am, Lord,” he replied.

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to take my name to Gentiles, kings, and Israelites.

but Saul learned of their plot. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,

Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

When the brothers found out, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

So all who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to him who urged him, “Don't delay in coming with us.”

About three in the afternoon[fn] he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”

He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing something, he fell into a trance.

But Peter lifted him up and said, “Stand up. I myself am also a man.”

“but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

“how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the devil, because God was with him.

“God raised up this man on the third day and caused him to be seen,

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.

When Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him,

and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

When Herod was about to bring him out for trial, that very night Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.

Peter, however, kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were amazed.

After Herod had searched and did not find him, he interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

But Saul ​— ​also called Paul ​— ​filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at Elymas

“Now, look, the Lord's hand is against you. You are going to be blind, and will not see the sun for a time.” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

“After removing him, he raised up David as their king and testified about him, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my will.'

“But God raised him from the dead,

“As to his raising him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has spoken in this way, I will give you the holy and sure promises of David.

Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

Some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.

“For since ancient times, Moses has had those who proclaim him in every city, and every Sabbath day he is read aloud in the synagogues.”

Paul wanted Timothy to go with him; so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.

During the night Paul had a vision in which a Macedonian man was standing and pleading with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us! ”

Those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.

“He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

“because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man he has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the tribunal.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. After Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside[fn] and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Although Paul wanted to go in before the people, the disciples did not let him.

Some Jews in the crowd gave instructions to Alexander[fn] after they pushed him to the front. Motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense to the people.

When he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went on to Mitylene.

When they came to him, he said to them, “You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

grieving most of all over his statement that they would never see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

When we heard this, both we and the local people pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem.

When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd, and seized him,

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

Some in the crowd were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.

“and saw him telling me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

They listened to him up to this point. Then they raised their voices, shouting, “Wipe this man off the face of the earth! He should not be allowed to live! ”

the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, directing that he be interrogated with the scourge to discover the reason they were shouting against him like this.

So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately. The commander too was alarmed when he realized Paul was a Roman citizen and he had bound him.

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! You are sitting there judging me according to the law, and yet in violation of the law are you ordering me to be struck? ”

When the dispute became violent, the commander feared that Paul might be torn apart by them and ordered the troops to go down, take him away from them, and bring him into the barracks.

“So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you[fn] as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

So he took him, brought him to the commander, and said, “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, because he has something to tell you.”