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

When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

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

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

(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.

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

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

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he has seen the Father.)

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”

Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”