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For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong."

for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.

who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.

Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body.

In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?

But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.' "

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, "Follow me."

Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

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

When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men.

He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.

He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.