At this point their eyes were opened and they recognized him. Then he vanished out of their sight.

– children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”

So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live.

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”

So the Pharisees objected, “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”

Then the Judeans replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”

His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

Then the squad of soldiers with their commanding officer and the officers of the Jewish leaders arrested Jesus and tied him up.

The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Completely baffled, they said, “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia,

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.