The Gospel according to St John, read by Sir David Suchet

in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was with God in the beginning through him all things were made without him nothing was made what was made in him was life and that life It was the light of all humanity. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to bear witness to that light so that through him everyone would believe that he himself was not the light that he came only as a witness to the light the True Light that gives light to all was coming to the world he was in the world and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him he came to what was his But his own did not yet receive him to all who received him to those who believed in his name he gave the right to be children of God children born not of natural dissension nor of human decision or husband's will but born of God the verb He became flesh and made his dwelling among us we have seen his glory the glory of the only son who came from the father full of grace and truth John testified about him he cried out saying this is the one I spoke of when I said he who comes after me has surpassed because he was before me of his fullness we have all received Grace in place of the Grace al

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y given because the law was given through Moses Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ no one has ever seen God except the only one son who is God himself and is in the closest relationship with the father has made him known now this was the testimony of John when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was he did not stop confessing but confessed freely .

I am not the Messiah they asked him then who are you Elijah said I am not you the prophet answered no finally they said who are you give us an answer to take to those who sent us what do you say about yourself John responded in the words of the prophet Isaiah I am the voice of him who cries in the desert make straight the way to the Lord now the Pharisees who had been sent asked him why then you baptize if you are not the Messiah nor Elijah nor the prophet I baptize with water John responded but among you is one who you do not know he is He who comes after me the straps of my sandals, I am not worthy to untie this.

Everything happened to Bethany on the other side of the Jordan where John was baptizing. The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, look at the Lamb of God. take away the sin of the world. This is what I was referring to when I said that the man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me. I did not know him myself but the reason I came baptizing with water was so that he could be revealed to Israel so John gave this testimony I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove and remain on him and I myself did not know him but the The man who told me to baptize with water told me that the man about whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.

I have seen it and I testify that this is the chosen one of God. The next day John was there again with two of his disciples when they saw Jesus pass by he said look at the Lamb of God when the two disciples heard him say this they followed Jesus turning around Jesus saw them following and asked what do you want they said rabbi what does teacher mean where are you staying come he said and you will see then they went and saw where he was staying and they spent that day with him, it was about four in the afternoon.

Andrés Simon, Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and that he had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrés did was look for his brother. Simon and told him we have found the Messiah who is the Christ and he brought him to Jesus Jesus looked at him and said you are Simon son of John they will call you Cephas which when translated is Peter the next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee finding Philip He said follow me Philip as Andrew and Peter were from the town of Bethsaida Philip found Nathanael and said to him we have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law and of whom the prophets also wrote Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph Nazareth something good can come out of there Nathanael asked come and see said Philip when Jesus saw Nathanael approaching he said of him here truly as an Israelite in whom there is no deceit how do you know me Nathanael asked Jesus answered I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you then Nathanael declared Rabbi you are the son of God you are the king of Israel Jesus said do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree you will see greater things than that then he added very true I tell you you will see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending about the son of man on the third day a wedding was celebrated in Cana of Galilee the mother of Jesus was there and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding when the wine ran out the mother of Jesus told him they no longer have wine woman why am I involved?

Jesus answered, my time has not yet come. His mother told the servants to do whatever I tell them. Nearby were six stone jars of water that the Jews used for ceremonial washing, each with a capacity. from 80 to 120 liters. Jesus told the servants to fill the jars with water, so they filled them to the brim and then He told them to now draw some out. They took it out and took it to the master of the banquet, so they did and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had turned into wine, he did not realize where it had come from, although the servants who had drawn the water did know, so called. the groom aside and said everyone bring out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have drunk too much but you have kept the best until now what Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through of which he revealed his glory and his disciples believed in him.

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and his brothers and his disciples stayed there for a few days when it was almost time for the Jewish Passover. Jesus went up to Jerusalem in the courts of the temple He found people selling cattle, sheep and pigeons and others sitting at tables exchanging money, so he made a whip with ropes and expelled everyone from the temple courtyard, both sheep and cattle, he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables to the that they sold. Doves he said, get these out of here, stop turning my father's house into a market.

His disciples remembered that it was written: Zeal for your house will consume me. The Jews then answered him, what sign can you show us to demonstrate your authority to do everything? this? Jesus answered them, destroy this Temple and I will raise it again in three days. They responded that it took 46 years to build this Temple and you are going to raise it in three days, but the temple he had spoken of was the body of him after him. He rose from the dead His disciples remembered what He had said Then they believed the scriptures and the words that Jesus had spoken Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover festival Many people saw the signs He was performing and believed in His name But Jesus No He entrusted himself to them because he knew all the people.

He did not need any testimony about humanity because he knew what was in each person. Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus. At Night and said Rabbi we know that you are a teacher who has come from God because no one could perform the signs that you are doing if God were not with him Jesus answered very true I tell you no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again How can someone be born when they are old?

Nicodemus asked, surely they cannot enter their mother's womb a second time to be born. Jesus answered very truthfully, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the flesh spirit gives birth to flesh that the spirit gives birth Spirit you should not be surprised by my saying you must be born again the wind blows where it wants you hear it sound but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes so it is with all those born of the spirit how can this be Nicodemus asked Your teacher from Israel said Jesus and you do not really understand these things, I tell you, we speak of what we know and we bear witness to what we have seen, but even so you do not accept our testimony, I have spoken to you with earthly things and you do not believe, as then you will believe.

If I speak to you about heavenly things, no one has ever ascended to heaven except the one who came from heaven, the son of man, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the son of man must be lifted up so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. because God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life because God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him. believe in him is not condemned he who does not believe is al

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y condemned because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God this is the verdict the light has come into the world but people loved darkness instead of light because their works were evil, all those who do evil hate the light and will not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed, but he who lives in the truth comes to the light so that it can be clearly seen that what he has done has been done before the eyes of God.

After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them. and baptized now John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salem because there was a lot of water and people came and were baptized this was before John was imprisoned an argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of the washing ceremonial They approached John and said to him, Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, of whom you testified, look, he is baptizing and everyone is going to him.

To this John responded that a person can only receive what is given to him. from heaven you yourselves can testify that I said I am not the Messiah but that I am sent before him the bride is the groom's the friend who cares for the bridegroom waits for him and listens to him and is filled with joy when he hears the Voice of the bridegroom who The Joy is mine and now it is complete he must be greater I must be lesser he who comes from above is above all he who is from the earth belongs to the Earth and speaks as one of the Earth he who comes from Heaven is above everything bears witness to what he has seen and heard but no one accepts his testimony.

Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is true because the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God because God gives the spirit without limit. The Father loves the son and has Putting everything in his hands, he who believes in the son has eternal life but he who rejects the son will not see life because the wrath of God remains on them now Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John although In reality it was not Jesus who baptized but his disciples so he left Judea and returned once again to Galilee now he had to pass through Samaria so he arrived at a town in Samaria called Psycha near the land that Jacob had given him His son's well Joseph Jacob was there and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down at the well.

It was around noon when a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to him: will you give me a drink? His disciples had entered the city. to buy food the Samaritan woman told him you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan how can you ask me for a drink for the Jews do not associate with Samaritans Jesus answered her if you knew the gift of God and who is that he asked you for a drink you would have asked him and he would have asked you I would have given living water sir, the woman said you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep, where can you draw this living water from?

You are greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as well as his children and his livestock. Jesus answered: Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst again; In fact, the water that I give him will become a spring of water in him. water gushing forth for eternal life the woman said to him sir give me this water so that I do not thirst and have to keep coming here to draw water he told her go call your husband and come back I don't have a husband she responded Jesus told her he is right when he says who does not have a husband the fact is that she has had five husbands and the man she now has is not her husband what you just said is very true sir the woman said I can see that you are a prophet that our ancestors worshiped on this mountain But you Jews say that the place where we should worship is in Jerusalem.

Woman Jesus answered, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what we do not know that we worship what we know for salvation. of the Jews, but a time is coming and has already arrived when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth because they are the kind of worshipers that the father seeks God. It is Spirit and its worshipers must Worship in the spirit and in truth the woman said I know that the Messiah called Christ is coming when he comes he will explain everything to us then Jesus declared I am the one who speaks to you I am he or just then his disciples returned and were surprised Upon finding him talking to a woman but no one asked him what they want or why they are talking to her, then leaving her water jug, the woman returned to the town and told the people, come see a man who told me everything I have done.

Could this be the Messiah? They left the town and headed toward him while his disciples urged him.rabbi to eat something but he told them I have food to eat which you know nothing about so his disciples said among themselves someone could have brought him food my food he said Jesus must do the will of the one who sent me and finish his work, don't you have a saying? There are still four months until the harvest. I tell you to open your eyes and look at the fields for which they are ripe. Reap even now he who reaps receives a salary and gathers a harvest for eternal life. so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together so that one sows and another reaps it is true I sent you to reap what you have not worked for because others have done the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of their work many of the Samaritans of That people believed in him because of the woman's testimony.

He told me everything he had done. Then when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them and he stayed two days and through his words many more became believers. He told the woman we no longer believe just because of what you said now we have heard for ourselves and we know that this man really is the savior of the world after the two days he left for Galilee now Jesus himself had pointed out that a The prophet has no no honor in his own country when he arrived in Galilee the Galileans welcomed him they had seen everything he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover festival because they too had been there once again he visited Cana of Galilee where he had made the water spin . in wine and there was a royal official whose son was lying sick in Capernaum when this man heard that Jesus had come to Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son who was on the verge of death unless they saw signs. and he wonders Jesus told him you will never believe the royal officer said sir come down before my son dies go Jesus answered your son will live the man took Jesus' word and left while he was still on the road his servants found him with the news that His son was alive when he asked what time his son got better they told him yesterday at one in the afternoon his fever went away then the father realized the deaths it was the exact time Jesus had told him your son will live like this. that he and his entire household believed that this was the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee some time later Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pond that In Aramaic it is called Bethesda and is surrounded by five covered colonnades here a large number of disabled people used to lie down the blind the lame the paralytic who was there had been an invalid for 38 years and when Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been in This condition for a long time I asked him, does he want to get better, sir, the invalid responded, I don't have anyone to help me get into the pool.

When the water stirs while I'm trying to get in, someone else gets down in front of me. Then Jesus told him, get up, take your stretcher and walk. Immediately the man was healed, he took his stretcher and walked. The day this happened was Saturday and then the Jewish leader told the man that he had been healed. It is Saturday. The law forbids you to carry your stretcher, but he responded, "The man who healed me told me." He said to pick up his mat and walk so they asked him who this is who told you to pick it up and walk.

The man who was healed had no idea who he was because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Then Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: Look, you are well again, stop sinning or something worse could happen to you. The man went. and he told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him, so because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him in defense of him. Jesus told them that my father is always at his work to this day. and I'm also working that's why they tried even harder to kill him.

Not only did he break the Sabbath but he even called God his own father, making himself equal to God. Jesus gave them this answer, very truly, I tell you that the sun cannot do anything by itself, it can only do what it sees its father doing because Everything that the father does, the son also does because the father loves the son and shows him everything he does. Yes, and he will show you works even greater than these so that you will be amazed because just as the father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the sun gives life to those who are pleased to give it to him.

Furthermore, the father does not judge anyone but has entrusted all judgment to the son so that everyone honors the son just as they honor the father. He who does not honor the son does not honor the father who truly sent him, I tell you that he who hears my word and believe that the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has passed from Death to Life. Very truly I tell you that a time is coming and has already arrived when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who live here will live because As the father has life in himself, so he has granted the son also to have life in himself and has given him authority to judge because he is the son of man, do not marvel at this because the time is coming when all those who were in Their graves will hear his voice and those who have done Good will come out, they will rise alive and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned by myself I cannot do anything I judge only as I hear and my judgment is just because I do not seek to please myself. myself but him who sent me if I testify about myself my testimony is not true there is another who testifies in my favor and I know that his testimony about me is true you have sent John and he has testified to the truth it is not that I accept testimony human but I mention it to you so that you can be saved John was a lamp that burned and gave light and you chose for a time to enjoy his light I have a heavier testimony than that of John for the works that the father has given me to finish the same works what I am doing testify that the father has sent me and the same father who sent me has testified about me you have never heard his voice nor seen his form nor does his word dwell in you because you do not believe in the one he sent you study the scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life these are the same scriptures that testify of me however you refuse to come to me to have life I do not accept Glory from human beings but I know them I know that they do not have the love of God in their hearts I have come in the name of my father and you do not accept me but if another comes in his own name you will accept him as you can believe since you accept the glory of one another but you do not seek the glory that comes from the only God but not Do not think that you I will accuse before the father your accuser is Moses in whom your hopes are placed if you believed Moses you would believe me because he wrote about me but if you do not believe what he wrote how are you going to believe what I say?

Some time after this Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of ​​Galilee, which is the Sea of ​​Tiberias, and a large crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed when he healed those who were sick. Then Jesus went up to the hillside of a mountain and sat with his disciples. The Jewish Passover festival was approaching when Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming towards him. He said to Philip, where will we buy bread for these people to eat? He asked this just to test it because he already had it in mind what he was going to do.

Philip replied that it would take more than half a year's salary to buy enough bread for each one to eat a bite. Another of his disciples, Andrew Simon, Peter's brother spoke. Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but as far as they will go among so many Jesus said make the people sit down, there was a lot of grass in that place and they sat down. About 5,000 men were there. Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks and He distributed them to those who were sitting as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

When everyone had enough to eat, he told his disciples to collect the pieces that were left over so that nothing would be wasted. Then they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces of the five. barleys. bread that was left over from what they had eaten after the people saw the sign that Jesus did they began to say surely this is the prophet who will come to the world Jesus knowing that they were planning to come and make him King by force he withdrew again to a mountain Only when night came did his disciples go down to the lake, where they got into a boat and crossed the lake to Capernaum.

It was already night and Jesus had not yet joined them. A strong wind was blowing and the waters became turbulent when they arrived. They had traveled about three or four miles and they saw Jesus approaching the boat walking on the water and they were scared but he told them I'm not afraid so they wanted to put him in the boat and immediately the boat reached the shore where the crowd was heading the next day. who had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that there was only one boat there and Jesus had not entered it with his disciples but had gone alone, so they landed some of Tiberius' boats near the place where the people had eaten. bread after the Lord had given thanks and when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus, when they found him on the other side. about the lake they asked him rabbi when you got here Jesus answered very true I tell you that you are looking for me not because you saw the signs that I did but because you ate the loaves and were satisfied do not work for the food that spoils but for the food that endures eternal life that the son of man will give to you because on him God the father has put his seal of approval then they asked him what we must do to do the works that God requires Jesus answered the work of God is this to believe in the one he has sent then they asked him what sign then you will give so that we can see it and believe you what you will do with our ancestors the way in the desert as it is written he gave them bread from heaven to eat Jesus told them very truly I tell you that it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven heaven but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven because the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world, Lord, they said, always give us this bread, then Jesus declares that I am the bread of life that comes.

I will never go hungry and he who believes in me will never thirst, but as I told you, you have seen me and still not. I believe that all those that the father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me I will never drive away because I have come down from heaven. not to do my will but the will of him who sent me, and this is the will of him who sent me, that I may not lose any of all those whom he has given me, but may raise them up on the last day, because the will of my Father is that everyone who looks at the Sun and believes in it has eternal life and I will resurrect them.

On the last day, the Jews began to complain about him because he said: I am the bread that came down from heaven. They said: Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know how can say now that I came down? from heaven stop murmuring among yourselves Jesus answered no one can come to me unless the father who sent me brings you and I will raise you up on the last day it is written in the prophets everyone will be taught by God everyone who has listened to the father and learned from him comes to me no one has seen the father except he who is from God only he has seen the father of truth I tell you whoever believes has eternal life I am the bread of life your ancestors in the way in the desert however they died but here is the bread that comes down from heaven which anyone can eat and not die I am the living bread that came down from heaven whoever eats this bread will live forever this bread is my flesh that I will give for the life of the world Then the Jews began to argue strongly among themselves how this man can give us his flesh to eat.

Jesus told them very truly, I tell you that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you who eat my blood have no life in you. flesh and drink my blood has eternal life and I will resurrect you on the last day because my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them. Just as the living father sent me and I live thanks to the father, so he who feeds on me will live thanks to me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven to his ancestors in Manor and died, but whoever eats this bread will live forever. He said this while teaching in the synagogue of Capernaum. Upon hearing it, many of his disciples said that this is a harsh teaching. Who can accept it, knowing that his disciples complained about this? Jesus said to them, does this offend you? What if you see the son? of man Ascend to where you were before the spirit gives life the flesh counts for nothing the words I have spoken to you are full of the spirit and life however there are some of you who do not believe because Jesus had known from the beginning which of them They did not believe and who would betray him, he continued saying, that is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the father has allowed him, from this moment many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

I don't want to leave you too Jesus asked the twelve Simon Peter answered Lord to whom shall we go you have words of eternal life we ​​have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God then Jesus answered do I have? He did not choose you twelve, but one of you is a demon, he was referring to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who although one of the twelve would later betray himUntil now you have not asked for anything in my name ask and you will receive and your joy will be complete although I have been speaking figuratively the time is approaching when I will no longer use this type of language but will speak clearly to you about my father on that day you will ask in I do not say my name that I will ask the father in your name no the father himself loves you because you have loved me and you have believed that I came from God I came from the father and entered the world now I leave the world and return to the father then the disciples of Jesus they said now you are speaking clearly and without rhetorical figures now we can see that you know all things and that you don't even need anyone to ask you questions this makes us believe that you came from God Do you believe now that Jesus answered?

It is coming and in fact it has arrived when you will be scattered each one to your own home you will leave me alone but I am not alone because my father is with me I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace in this world you will have problems but take heart I have conquered the world after Jesus said this, he looked up to heaven and prayed, Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son so that your son may glorify you because you gave him authority over all people to give eternal life to all those you have given him now. this is eternal life that they may know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do and now father, glorify me in your presence with the glory that I had with you before the world began.

I have revealed to you those whom you gave me from the world, they were yours, you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. now they know that everything you have given me comes from you because I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them they knew with certainty that I came from you and they believed that you sent me I pray for them I am not praying for the world but for those who You have given me because they are yours everything I have is yours and everything you have is mine and the Glory has come to me through them I will no longer remain in the world but they remain in the world and I come to you Holy Father protect them with the power of your name the name you gave me so that they may be one As we are one while I was with them I protected them and kept them safe with that name you gave me none have lost except the one who was condemned to destruction so that the Writing.

I come to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not even of the world as I am not of it. sanctify them in the truth your word is truth as you sent me into the world I have sent them into the world for them I sanctify myself so that they too may be truly sanctified my prayer is not only for them I also pray for those who will believe in me through their message that All of them may be one father just as you are in me and I in you, may they also be in US so that the world may believe that you have sent me and I have given you. them the glory that you gave me so that they may be one as We Are One in them and you and I so that they may be brought to complete Unity then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them just as you have loved me father I want them that you have given me be with me where I am and can see my glory the glory that you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world righteous father although the world does not know you I know you and they know that you have sent me, I have sent you made known and I will continue to make you known so that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them.

When he finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and they crossed the Kidron Valley, on the other side there was a garden and He and his disciples entered it. Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place because Jesus had often met there with his disciples, so Judas came to the garden leading a detachment of soldiers and some officers of the chief priests and of the Pharisees carrying torches, lanterns and weapons. Knowing everything that was going to happen to him, he came out and asked them who is the one you want, Jesus of Nazareth. They responded, "I am he," said Jesus, and Judas the traitor was there with them.

When Jesus said, "I am he," they stepped back and fell to the ground again. He asked them. who do they want Jesus of Nazareth they said Jesus answered I told them that I am him if they are looking for I then I let these men go this happened so that the words that I had said would be fulfilled I have not lost one of those that you gave me then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the servant, the high priest, cutting off the servant's right ear. The name was Malcus. Jesus commanded Peter, put away your sword.

Shall I not drink the cup that the father has given me? Then the detachment of soldiers with their commander and the Jewish officers arrested Jesus, tied him up and took him first to Annas, who was the father. -law of Caiaphas the high priest of that year Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it would be good for a man to die for the people Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus because this disciple was known to the high priest he went with Jesus to the courtyard of the high priest, but Peter had to wait outside, at the door, the other known disciple of the high priest returned, spoke to the servant who was on duty there and brought Peter.

Do you want one of this man's disciples too? She asked Peter, he replied: No, it was cold and the servants and officials were around a fire they had made to warm themselves. Peter was also with them warming himself while the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teachings. I have spoken openly to the world Jesus answered I always taught in the synagogues or in the temple where all the Jews gather I did not say anything in secret why you ask me those who heard me surely know what I said when Jesus said this of the officials nearby she slapped him in the face this is how you respond to the high priest he asked if I said something wrong Jesus responded testify to what is wrong but if I told the truth why did you hit me then Anna sent him tied up to Caiaphas the tall Meanwhile the priest Simon Peter He was still there warming himself and they asked him: Aren't you one of his disciples too?

It's true? He denied it saying that I am not one of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off. I challenged him, didn't I see you with him in the garden again? Peter denied it and at that moment he began to sing. Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from the hands of Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. It was already early in the morning and to avoid impurity ceremonies they did not enter the palace because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. So Pilate came out. and asked them: What charges would they bring against this man if he were not a criminal?

They responded that we would not have added you Pilate said take it yourselves and judge him

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to your own law but we have no right to execute anyone they objected this happened so that what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die would be fulfilled. Pilate then returned inside the palace summoned Jesus had asked him, are you the king of the Jews? Is it your idea? Jesus asked or others told you about me. I am Jewish? Pilate answered your own people and the chief priests handed you over to me, what have you done?

Jesus said my kingdom is not of this world if it were my servants they would fight to avoid my arrest by the Jewish leaders but now my kingdom is from another place you are king then said Pilate Jesus responded you say that I am king in fact the reason why The one that I was born and came into the world is to bear witness to the truth, all those who are on the side of the Truth listen to me, what is the truth? Pilate replied, with this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, I find no basis to accuse him.

But it is your custom that I release a prisoner to you at the time of Passover. Do you want me to release the king of the Jews? They shouted in response no, don't give us Barabbas now Barabbas had participated in an uprising so Pilate They took Jesus and made him whip the soldiers. They wove a crown of thorns together and placed it on his head. They wrapped him in a purple cloak and approached him again and again saying Hail, King of the Jews! and they slapped him once more. Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, look, I am bringing him to you so that you know that I find no basis to accuse him when Jesus came out with the crown of thorns and the purple robe.

Pilate told them here is the man as soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him they shouted crucify crucify Pilate responded take him and crucify him since for me I find no basis to accuse him the Jewish leaders insisted that we have a law and

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to that Law must die because he claimed to be the son of God. When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid and returned inside the palace, where do you come from? He asked Jesus but Jesus did not answer him. Do you refuse to speak? Pilate said to me, don't you realize that I have the power to free you or to crucify you?

Jesus replied you would not have any power over me if it had not been given to you from above, that is why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin from then on Pilate tried to free Jesus but the Jewish leaders kept shouting if you let go to this man you are not a friend of Caesar anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar when Pilate heard this he brought out Jesus and sat down in the court in a place known as the cobblestone which in Aramaic is gabita it was the day of preparation of the Easter was about noon here is your king Pilate said to the Jews but they shouted take him take him crucify him I will crucify your king Pilate asked we have no king but Caesar the chief priests responded finally Pilate handed him over to be crucified then the soldiers left.

They took charge of Jesus, carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle, Pilate had prepared a sign and fixed it on the cross, it said Jesus of Nazareth. the king of the Jews many of the Jews read this sign for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and the sign was written in Aramaic Latin and Greek the chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate not to write the king of the Jews but this man claimed to be the king of the Jews Pilate I answered what I have written I have written when the soldiers crucified Jesus they took his clothes dividing them into four parts one for each of them leaving the underwear this garment was woven without seams in one one piece from top to bottom, let's not tear it, they said, let's decide among others by lot who will keep this.

This happened to fulfill the scripture that says they divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my dress, so this is what the men did. soldiers near the cross of Jesus was his mother his mother's sister Mary the wife of Clopus and Mary Magdalene when Jesus saw his mother there and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby he said to his wife here is your son and the disciple here is your mother since then this disciple took her home later knowing that everything was over and for the scripture to be fulfilled Jesus said I am thirsty there was a jar of wine vinegar so they soaked a sponge in it they put the sponge on a stem of hyssop and they brought it to Jesus' lips when he received the drink Jesus said it was over, he bowed his head and gave up the spirit now it was the day of preparation and the next day was going to be a special Sabbath because the Jewish leaders did not want that the bodies would remain.

On the crosses during the Sabbath they asked Pilate to break their legs and take the bodies down, then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus and then those of the other, but when they came to Jesus and They found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, causing a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw him has given testimony and his testimony is true. He knows what the story says. truth and testify so that you also believe that these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, not a single one of his bones will be broken and as another scripture says, they will look at the one they pierced later Joseph Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus now Joseph He was a disciple of Jesus but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders with the permission of Pilate he came and took the body he was accompanied by Nicodemus the man who had previously visited Jesus at night Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes. about 35 kilograms, taking the body of Jesus, the two wrapped it with the spices in strips of linen.

This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. In the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden and in the garden a new Tomb in which no one had ever been placed because it was the Jewish day of preparation and since the tomb was close they placed Jesus there early on the first day of the week while it was still dark Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance so she He came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and said that they had taken the Lord out of the Tomb and we do not know where Peter and the others had put him then.The disciples headed towards the tomb, both of them were running, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.

He bowed down and looked at the bandages that were there, but he did not enter, so Simon Peter came after him and went straight to the tomb and saw the bandages lying there, in addition to the linen that had been wrapped around Jesus' head, the linen was still in its place separated from the linen finally the other disciple who would arrive first at the tomb also entered, saw and believed that they still did not understand the Scriptures that Jesus had to rise from the dead, then the disciples returned to where they were staying. Now Mary was outside the tomb crying as she cried, she leaned over to look into the tomb and saw two angels dressed in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet.

They asked her, woman, why are you crying? take my Lord she said and I don't know where they have put him in this she turned and saw Jesus standing there but she didn't realize that it was Jesus asked her woman why are you crying who are you looking for thinking it was the gardener she said sir yes. you have taken tell me where you have put it and I will look for it Jesus said Mary turned to him and shouted in Aramaic bonai which means teacher Jesus said don't grab me because I have not yet ascended to the father go instead to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my father and your father to my God and your God Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news I saw the Lord and told them that he had told her these things on the afternoon of that first day of the week when the disciples were together with the doors closed for fear of the Jews. leaders Jesus came and stood among them and said peace to you after saying this he showed them his hands and sighed the disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord again Jesus said peace to you as the father has sent me I send you and With that he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit if you forgive someone's sins your sins are forgiven if you do not forgive them they are not forgiven now Thomas also known as didimus one of the twelve was not with the disciples when Jesus came then the other disciples They told him we have seen the Lord but he told them unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands and put my finger where the nails were and put my hand in his side I will not believe his disciples a week later.

They were in the house again and Thomas was with them although the doors were closed Jesus came and stood between them and said peace to you then he said to Thomas put your finger here look at my hands extend your hand and put it in my side stop hesitating And believing Thomas said to him my Lord and my God then Jesus said to him because you have seen me you have believed blessed those who have not seen and yet have believed Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not recorded in this book but these They are written so that you believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you have life in his name, after Jesus appeared again to his disciples by the Sea of ​​Galilee, this is what happened to Simon Peter Thomas, also known as Didimus, Nathanael of Cana of Galilee.

The sons of Zebedee and two other disciples were together, "I'm going fishing." Simon Peter told them and they said, "Let's go with you," so they went out and got into the boat, but that night they didn't catch anything. Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples They didn't realize it was Jesus. He called them friends. Don't you have fish? They did not answer, he said, cast your net to the right side of the sea, boat, and you will find some. When they did so, they could not take out the net due to the large number of fish.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord," as soon as Simon Peter heard him. That is to say, the Lord wrapped himself in his outer garment because he had taken it off and jumped into the water. The other disciples followed him in the boat, towing the net full of fish because they were not very safe. About a hundred meters away, when they disembarked, they saw a fire with embers there. lit with a fish on top and a little bread Jesus told them to bring some of the fish they had just caught so Simon Peter got back into the boat and dragged the net to the shore which was full of big fish 153. but despite of so many the net was not broken Jesus told them come and have breakfast none of the disciples dared to ask him who you are they knew it was the Lord Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them and did the same with the fish that was now the third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples after having risen from the dead when they finished eating Jesus said to Simon Peter Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?

Yes Lord said you know I love you Jesus said feed my Lambs again Jesus said Simon son of John do you love me answered yes Lord you know I love you Jesus said take care of my sheep the third time Simon son of John said do you love me Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time do you love me he said Lord you know all things you know that I love you Jesus said feed my sheep truly I tell you when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted but when you are old you will extend your hands and another will clothe you and take you where you do not want to go Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death with which Peter would glorify God then he said follow me Peter turned and saw that the disciple that Jesus loved was following them, this was the one who He had leaned against Jesus at dinner and had said Lord, who is going to betray you?

When Peter saw him, he asked the Lord what about him. Jesus answered, "If I want him to stay alive until I return, what is it that you must follow me, that's why he A rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die but Jesus did not say that he would not die, he only said if I want him to stay alive until I return, what is that for you? This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them, we know. that his testimony is true Jesus also did many other things if each of them were written I suppose the whole world would not even have room for the books that would be written