The<n id="1" /> master commended the dishonest<n id="2" /> manager because he acted shrewdly.<n id="3" /> For the people<n id="4" /> of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries<n id="5" /> than the people<n id="6" /> of light.

But<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> said to them, &#8220;You are the ones who justify yourselves in men&#8217;s eyes,<n id="3" /> but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized<n id="4" /> among men is utterly detestable<n id="5" /> in God&#8217;s sight.p>

Besides all this,<n id="1" /> a great chasm<n id="2" /> has been fixed between us,<n id="3" /> so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.&#8217;

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this:<n id="1" /> &#8216;God, I thank<n id="2" /> you that I am not like other people:<n id="3" /> extortionists,<n id="4" /> unrighteous people,<n id="5" /> adulterers &#8211; or even like this tax collector.<n id="6" />

But Jesus<n id="1" /> looked straight at them and said, &#8220;Then what is the meaning of that which is written: &#8216;<b><i>The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstonei>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" />

The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed<n id="1" /> him, saying, &#8220;He saved others. Let him save<n id="2" /> himself if<n id="3" /> he is the Christ<n id="4" /> of God, his chosen one!&#8221;

He<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;What things?&#8221; &#8220;The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;a man<n id="2" /> who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet<n id="3" /> before God and all the people;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me<n id="2" /> in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms<n id="3" /> must be fulfilled.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> this was<n id="2" /> John&#8217;s<n id="3" /> testimony<n id="4" /> when the Jewish leaders<n id="5" /> sent<n id="6" /> priests and Levites from Jerusalem<n id="7" /> to ask him, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221;<n id="8" />

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, &#8220;What do you want?&#8221;<n id="1" /> So they said to him, &#8220;Rabbi&#8221; (which is translated Teacher),<n id="2" /> &#8220;where are you staying?&#8221;

Philip found Nathanael<n id="1" /> and told him, &#8220;We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also<n id="2" /> wrote about &#8211; Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.&#8221;

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs,<n id="1" /> in Cana<n id="2" /> of Galilee. In this way he revealed<n id="3" /> his glory, and his disciples believed in him.<n id="4" />p>

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture<n id="1" /> and the saying<n id="2" /> that Jesus had spoken.p>

Now this is the basis for judging:<n id="1" /> that the light has come into the world and people<n id="2" /> loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

Surely you&#8217;re not greater than our ancestor<n id="1" /> Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

But a time<n id="1" /> is coming &#8211; and now is here<n id="2" /> &#8211; when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks<n id="3" /> such people to be<n id="4" /> his worshipers.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now at that very moment his disciples came back.<n id="1" /> They were shocked<n id="2" /> because he was speaking<n id="3" /> with a woman. However, no one said, &#8220;What do you want?&#8221;<n id="4" /> or &#8220;Why are you speaking with her?&#8221;

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> at the feast<n id="2" /> (for they themselves had gone to the feast).<n id="3" />p>

For this reason the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jesus said, &#8220;Have<n id="1" /> the people sit down.&#8221; (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.)<n id="2" /> So the men<n id="3" /> sat down, about five thousand in number.