Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.”

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.”

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

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.”

So Pilate went back into the governor’s residence, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

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

and he went back into the governor’s residence and said to Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.

The two were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.

Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went right into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen cloth lying there,

and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus’ head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself.

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed.

And she saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus’ body had been lying, one at the head and one at the feet.

Jesus replied, “The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.