“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

“Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)