While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

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

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

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.”

When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.”

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

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

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him.”

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!”

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

Then Peter took hold of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

He gave her his hand and helped her get up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.