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20 1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, MaryMagdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removedfrom the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the otherdisciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have takenthe Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laidhim.” 3 Then Peter and the other…

12The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard thatJesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13So they took branches of palm treesand went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one whocomes in the name of the Lord— the King of Israel!” 14Jesus found ayoung donkey and sat on it; as it is written: 15“Do not be afraid, daughterof Zion. Look, your king…

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2And the soldierswove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressedhim in a purple robe. 3They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, Kingof the Jews!” and striking him on the face. 4Pilate went out again andsaid to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that Ifind no case against him.” 5So Jesus…

28Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It wasearly in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, soas to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover. 29SoPilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring againstthis man?” 30They answered, “If this man were not a criminal, we wouldnot have handed him…

After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with hisdisciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was agarden, which he and his disciples entered. 2 Now Judas, whobetrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with hisdisciples. 3 So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together withpolice from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and…

Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hourhad come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Havingloved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.2The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariotto betray him. And during supper 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father hadgiven all things into his hands, and…

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village ofMary and her sister Martha. 2Mary was the one who anointed theLord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brotherLazarus was ill. 3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom11 5 you love is ill.” 4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does notlead to death; rather it is for…

As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciplesasked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he wasborn blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned;he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4Wemust work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is comingwhen no one can work. 5As long…

46Then Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed thewater into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill inCapernaum. 47When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee,he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was atthe point of death. 48Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs andwonders you will not believe.”…

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus ismaking and baptizing more disciples than John” 2—although it wasnot Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— 3 he left Judea andstarted back to Galilee. 4But he had to go through Samaria. 5So he cameto a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob hadgiven to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s…