and saying, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!”

There was also an inscription over him, “This is the king of the Jews.”

They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb,

but when they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.”

Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples.

When John’s two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did.

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)