Study Desk

And He said to them, "What are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you are walking?" And they came to a stop, looking sad.

And He said to them, "What sort of things?" And they said to Him, "Those about Jesus the Nazarene, who proved to be a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people,

and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.

But they were startled and frightened, and thought that they were looking at a spirit.

"See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you plainly see that I have."

They served Him a piece of broiled fish;

A man came, one sent from God, and his name was John.

He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God.

"This is He in behalf of whom I said, 'After me is coming a Man who has proved to be my superior, because He existed before me.'

And John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He remained upon Him.

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother, and His brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

And He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away from here; stop making My Father's house a place of business!"

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

this man came to Jesus at night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

Then a matter of dispute developed on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purification.

John replied, "A person can receive not even one thing unless it has been given to him from heaven.