let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

(Now none of those present at the table understood why Jesus said this to Judas.

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”

She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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

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.

But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”

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

Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)

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

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.