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A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'

For if such things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

[But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

And we rightly so, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did, but this man has done nothing wrong."

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Wasn't it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?"

and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

John said, "I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

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

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."