and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They replied, “Lord, come and see.”

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should betray Jesus.

(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, “Not every one of you is clean.”)

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, “Who are you looking for?”

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

They replied, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”

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

They came up to him again and again and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly in the face.

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

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

So they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No!”

So they asked John, “Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”