Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”

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

So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

He answered, “I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?”

Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

“Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and your chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?”

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!”

Jesus replied, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!”

Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?”

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

He kept back for himself part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge; he brought only part of it and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.