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So the Lord isn't the God of the dead, but of the living. This means that everyone is alive as far as God is concerned.

Jesus took a cup of wine in his hands and gave thanks to God. Then he told the apostles, "Take this wine and share it with each other.

After the meal he took another cup of wine in his hands. Then he said, "This is my blood. It is poured out for you, and with it God makes his new agreement.

But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right side of God All-Powerful."

Then they asked, "Are you the Son of God?" Jesus answered, "You say I am!"

But the other criminal told the first one off, "Don't you fear God? Aren't you getting the same punishment as this man?

When the Roman officer saw what had happened, he praised God and said, "Jesus must really have been a good man!"

"What do you mean?" Jesus asked. They answered: Those things that happened to Jesus from Nazareth. By what he did and said he showed that he was a powerful prophet, who pleased God and all the people.

They also say that all people of every nation must be told in my name to turn to God, in order to be forgiven. So beginning in Jerusalem,

They spent their time in the temple, praising God.

In the beginning was the one who is called the Word. The Word was with God and was truly God.

From the very beginning the Word was with God.

And with this Word, God created all things. Nothing was made without the Word. Everything that was created

God sent a man named John,

The Word was in the world, but no one knew him, though God had made the world with his Word.

Yet some people accepted him and put their faith in him. So he gave them the right to be the children of God.

They were not God's children by nature or because of any human desires. God himself was the one who made them his children.

The Word became a human being and lived here with us. We saw his true glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father. From him all the kindness and all the truth of God have come down to us.

No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is truly God and is closest to the Father, has shown us what God is like.

The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said: Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!