Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

And all those who knew Jesus stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw these things.

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood beside them in dazzling attire.

Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

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

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

Jesus said to him, “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”