and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

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

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”

Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

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.

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest’s officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, “Is that the way you answer the high priest?”

Pilate told them, “Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him according to your own law!” The Jewish leaders replied, “We cannot legally put anyone to death.”

and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” (called in Aramaic Golgotha).

Thus many of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”