This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.

But he said to them, “How is it that they say that the Christ is David’s son?

So Judas agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus when no crowd was present.

Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.

Then they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.

But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”

concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

I wrote the former account, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach