So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

Then they shouted out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked, “Shall I crucify your king?” The high priests replied, “We have no king except Caesar!”

Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”

If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.”

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance.