and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

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.

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”

So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look, here is the man!”

They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

When the centurion heard this, he went to the commanding officer and reported it, saying, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.