Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?”

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus.

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

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

There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!