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

He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?"

But they pleaded with Him, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over." So He went in to stay with them.

Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see-for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."

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

So they said to him, "Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

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

The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, "Follow Me."

Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.

His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for Your house will consume Me."

But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew all men.

He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the 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 everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.