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For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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John Testifies About Jesus
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
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John’s Disciples Follow Jesus
The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.
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When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
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When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
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Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
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Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus.
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And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).
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Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael
The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”
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Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
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When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
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“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
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Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.”
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Jesus Changes Water Into Wine
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
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and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
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When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
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“Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
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Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water” ; so they filled them to the brim.
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What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
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Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
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After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
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But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.
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Jesus Teaches Nicodemus
Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.
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He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
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Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
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Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
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“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?
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John Testifies Again About Jesus
After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.
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Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—
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although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
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Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
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When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”
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Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
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Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
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“I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.
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“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
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Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
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The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
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“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
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Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
After the two days he left for Galilee.
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(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)
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When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
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“Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
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“Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed.
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Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.
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This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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The Healing at the Pool
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.
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When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
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Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
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The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
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Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
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The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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The Authority of the Son
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
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In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
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Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
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Testimonies About Jesus
“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
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Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias),
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Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.
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When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?”
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Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there).
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Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
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After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
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Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
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Jesus Walks on the Water
When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,
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where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.
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When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened.
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The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone.
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Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.
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Jesus the Bread of Life
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
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Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
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Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
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Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
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Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
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They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’ ?”
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“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.
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Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
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Many Disciples Desert Jesus
On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
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Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you?
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Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.
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“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
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Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
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Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles
After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him.
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Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do.
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Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do.
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Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “Where is he?”
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Jesus Teaches at the Festival
Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.
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Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.
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Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
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Division Over Who Jesus Is
At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
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Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,
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Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
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On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
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By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
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Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.
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Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,
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but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
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and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
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They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
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At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
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Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
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“No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
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Dispute Over Jesus’ Testimony
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
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Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.
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Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
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Dispute Over Who Jesus Is
Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”
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“Who are you?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
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So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.
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Dispute Over Whose Children Jesus’ Opponents Are
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
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Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
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“Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did.
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Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.
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Jesus’ Claims About Himself
The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”
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“I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
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Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me.
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“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
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At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
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Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
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“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
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He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
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Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.
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His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
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Spiritual Blindness
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
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Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
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Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
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Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.
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Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
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Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
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Further Conflict Over Jesus’ Claims
Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,
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and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.
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Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me,
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but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
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Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’?
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Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed,
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And in that place many believed in Jesus.
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So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
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When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”
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Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
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Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light.
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Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
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Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus
On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
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When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.
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“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;
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Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
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When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
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When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
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Jesus wept.
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Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead
Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
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Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
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So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
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When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
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The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
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The Plot to Kill Jesus
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
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But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
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He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,
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Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
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They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?”
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But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
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Jesus Anointed at Bethany
Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
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Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him.
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Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
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“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.
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Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
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for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.
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Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
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Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
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At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.
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Jesus Predicts His Death
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival.
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They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.”
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Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.
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Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
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Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine.
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Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going.
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Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.
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Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews
Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.
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Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.
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Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
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Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet
It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
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The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
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Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
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Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
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“No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”
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Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.”
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Jesus Predicts His Betrayal
“I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’
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After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”
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One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him.
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Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
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Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
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As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”
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But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him.
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Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor.
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Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial
When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him.
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Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.”
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Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!
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Jesus Comforts His Disciples
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.
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Jesus the Way to the Father
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
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Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
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Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
“If you love me, keep my commands.
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Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
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The Disciples’ Grief Will Turn to Joy
Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”
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Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?
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Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.
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“Do you now believe?” Jesus replied.
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Jesus Prays to Be Glorified
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
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Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
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Jesus Prays for His Disciples
“I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.
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Jesus Prays for All Believers
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
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Jesus Arrested
When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.
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Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.
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Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Who is it you want?”
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“Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.)
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When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
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Again he asked them, “Who is it you want?” “Jesus of Nazareth,” they said.
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Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, then let these men go.”
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Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”
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Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him
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Peter’s First Denial
Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard,
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The High Priest Questions Jesus
Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
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“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
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When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby slapped him in the face. “Is this the way you answer the high priest?” he demanded.
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“If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?”
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Jesus Before Pilate
Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.
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This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.
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Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
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“Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”
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Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
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“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
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Jesus Sentenced to Be Crucified
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
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When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
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and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.
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Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
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From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
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When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
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Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.
The Crucifixion of Jesus
So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.
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There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
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Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.
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Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
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When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
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Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,”
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The Death of Jesus
Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
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A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.
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When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
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The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.
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But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
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Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
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The Burial of Jesus
Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.
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He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
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Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.
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At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.
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Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
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So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
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as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen.
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(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
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Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb
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and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
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At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
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Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
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Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
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Jesus Appears to His Disciples
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
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Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
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Jesus Appears to Thomas
Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
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A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
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Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
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The Purpose of John’s Gospel
Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
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But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
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Jesus and the Miraculous Catch of Fish
Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way:
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Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
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Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water.
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Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.”
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Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.
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Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.
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This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.
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Jesus Reinstates Peter
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
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Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
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The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.
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Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”
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Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”)
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Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.”
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Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”
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Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
