And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.”
And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”
When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.
a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.
A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”
And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.
Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man,
Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.
That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,
And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit.
See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’
And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”
Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification.
John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”
“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”
(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.
In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing.
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