There is no consensus for the actual dates concerning most of the major events recorded in the ‘New Covenant’ section of the Bible. For this reason the dates that are posted for the following verses are an ‘average’ (compromise) of the most common estimates concerning each event.
Mark 1:1
1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Luke 3:1-2
1. In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
2. during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.
Mark 1:2-3
2. As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,
3. the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.
Matthew 3:1-3
1. In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,
2. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
3. For he is the one about whom the prophet Isaiah had spoken: “The voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.
Luke 3:4-6
4. As it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, “The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.
5. Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low, and the crooked will be made straight, and the rough ways will be made smooth,
6. and all humanity will see the salvation of God.
John 1:6-13
6. A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.
7. He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him.
8. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.
9. The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
10. He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.
11. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.
12. But to all who have received him—those who believe in his name—he has given the right to become God’s children—
13. children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
Mark 1:4
4. In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Luke 3:3
3. He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Mark 1:5-6
5. People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
6. John wore a garment made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 3:4-10
4. Now John wore clothing made from camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.
5. Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,
6. and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
7. But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8. Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,
9. and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
10. Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Luke 3:7-15
7. So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8. Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
9. Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
10. So, the crowds were asking him, “What then should we do?”
11. John answered them, “The person who has two tunics must share with the person who has none, and the person who has food must do likewise.”
12. Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”
13. He told them, “Collect no more than you are required to.”
14. Then some soldiers also asked him, “And as for us—what should we do?” He told them, “Take money from no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your pay.”
15. While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,
Mark 1:7-8
7. He proclaimed, “One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.
8. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 3:11-12
11. “I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am—I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
12. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!
Luke 3:16-18
16. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming—I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
17. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
18. And in this way, with many other exhortations, John proclaimed good news to the people.
John 1:14-18
14. Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
15. John testified about him and shouted out, “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’”
16. For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.
17. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.
18. No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
Matthew 3:13-15
13. Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.
14. But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”
15 So Jesus replied to him, “Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him.
Luke 3:21
21. Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened,
Mark 1:9-11
9. Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River.
10. And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
11. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.
Matthew 3:16-17
16. After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.
17. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.
Luke 3:22-23a
22. and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”
23a. So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old.
Luke 4:1-2
1. Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
2. where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.
Matthew 4:1-2
1. Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2. After he fasted 40 days and 40 nights he was famished.
Mark 1:12-13
12. The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.
13. He was in the wilderness 40 days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.
Matthew 4:3-11
3. The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”
4. But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
5. Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,
6. and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you’ and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
7. Jesus said to him, “Once again it is written: ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
8. Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.
9. And he said to him, “I will give you all these things if you throw yourself to the ground and worship me.”
10. Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
11. Then the devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to his needs.
Luke 4:3-13
3.The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
4. Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone.’”
5. Then the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.
6. And he said to him, “To you I will grant this whole realm—and the glory that goes along with it, for it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.
7. So then, if you will worship me, all this will be yours.”
8. Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
9. Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,
10. for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’
11. and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
12. Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
13. So when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a more opportune time.
Date: 26 A.D.
John 1:19-28
19. Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
20. He confessed—he did not deny but confessed—“I am not the Christ!”
21. So, they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No!”
22. Then they said to him, “Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23. John said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
24. (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
25. So, they asked John, “Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26. John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,
27. who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!” 28. These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.
Date: 26 A.D.
John 1:29-34
29. On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
30. This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’
31. I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”
32. Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.
33. And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining—this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
34. I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.
Date: 26 A.D.
John 1:35-51
35. Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples.
36. Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37. When John’s two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
38. Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, “What do you want?” So they said to him, “Rabbi” (which is translated Teacher), “where are you staying?”
39. Jesus answered, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o’clock in the afternoon.
40. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus.
41. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).
42. Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).
43. On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”
44. (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)
45. Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
46. Nathanael replied, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied, “Come and see.”
47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”
48. Nathanael asked him, “How do you know me?” Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49. Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!”
50. Jesus said to him, “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
51. He continued, “I tell all of you the solemn truth—you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
Matthew 4:18-22
18. As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).
19. He said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people!”
20. They left their nets immediately and followed him.
21. Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Then he called them.
22. They immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.
Mark 1:16-20
16. As he went along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).
17. Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people!”
18. They left their nets immediately and followed him.
19. Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in their boat mending nets.
20. Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
Luke 5:1-11
1. Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.
2. He saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.
3. He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
4. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch.”
5. Simon answered, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets.”
6. When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.
7. So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink.
8. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
9. For Peter and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken,
10. and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s business partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people!”
11. So when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.
John 2:1-12
1. Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
2. and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
3. When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine left.”
4. Jesus replied, “Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”
5. His mother told the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.”
6. Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding 20 or 30 gallons.
7. Jesus told the servants, “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.
8. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did.
9. When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom
10. and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”
11. Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
12. After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
John 2:13-25
13. Now the Jewish Feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14. He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.
15. So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
16. To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
17. His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”
18. So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”
19. Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”
20. Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for 46 years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”
21. But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.
22. So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.
23. Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.
24. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them because he knew all people.
25. He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.
John 3:1-21
1. Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,
2. 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.”
3 .Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4. Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”
5. Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7. Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all be born from above.’
8. The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9. Nicodemus replied, “How can these things be?”
10. Jesus answered, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?
11. I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.
12. If I have told you people about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I
13. No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
14. Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15. so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
16. For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
18. The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
19. Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
20. For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
21. But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.
John 3:22-36
22. After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.
23. John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.
24. (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
25. Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.
26. So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified—see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”
27. John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
28. You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’
29. The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.
30. He must become more important while I become less important.”
31. The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.
32. He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.
33. The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful.
34. For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.
35. The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.
36. The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
John 4:1-42
1. Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John
2. (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),
3. he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.
4. But he had to pass through Samaria.
5. Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6. Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
7. A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.”
8. (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)
9. So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you—a Jew—ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
10. Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11. “Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?
12. Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”
13. Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.
14. But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
15. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16. He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.”
17. The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’
18. for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
19. The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
20. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21. Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22. You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know because salvation is from the Jews.
2.3 But a time is coming—and now is here—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
24. God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25. The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”
26. Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
27. Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”
28. Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,
29. “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”
30. So they left the town and began coming to him.
31. Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33.. So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work. 35. Don’t you say, ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!
36. The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.
37. For in this instance the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38. I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”
39. Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”
40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,
41. and because of his word many more believed.
42. They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”
John 4:43-54
43. After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.
44. (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)
45. So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).
46. Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.
47. When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.
48. So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!”
49. “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.”
50. Jesus told him, “Go home; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.
51 While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live.
52.. So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.”
53. Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household.
54. Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.
John 5:1-15
1. After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.
3. A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.
4. vv. 3b.-4. added later
5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for 38 years.
6.. When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”
7. The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.”
8. Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9. Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)
10. So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”
11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.
14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”
15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
John 5:16-47
16 Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
17 So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”
18 For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
19 So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.
21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
22 Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
25 I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming—and is now here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
27 and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of Man.
28 “Do not be amazed at this because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
29 and will come out—the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true. 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
34 (I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)
35 He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.
36 “But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete—the deeds I am now doing—testify about me that the Father has sent me.
37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,
38 nor do you have his word residing in you because you do not believe the one whom he sent.
39 You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,
40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
41 “I do not accept praise from people,
42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
44 How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?
45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me because he wrote about me.
47 But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”
Matthew 4:12
12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, he went into Galilee.
Mark 1:14-15
14 Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.
15 He said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!”
Luke 3:14-20
19 But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,
20 Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.
Luke 4:14-15
14 Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.
15 He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by all.
Luke 4:16-30
16. Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,
17. and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
18. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
19. to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
20. Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
21. Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”
22. All were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
23. Jesus said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum, do here in your hometown too.’”
24. And he added, “I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
25. But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years and there was a great famine over all the land.
26. Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
27. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
28. When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage.
29. They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.
30. But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.
Mark 1:21-28
21 Then they went to Capernaum. When the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.
22 The people there were amazed by his teaching because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.
23 Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,
24 “Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
25 But Jesus rebuked him: “Silence! Come out of him!”
26 After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.
27 They were all amazed so that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him.”
28 So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.
Luke 4:31-37
31 So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.
32 They were amazed at his teaching because he spoke with authority.
33 Now in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
34 “Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”
35 But Jesus rebuked him: “Silence! Come out of him!” Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.
36 They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
37 So the news about him spread into all areas of the region.
Matthew 4:13-17
13 While in Galilee, he moved from Nazareth to make his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
14 so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled:
15 “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way by the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
16 the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.”
17 From that time Jesus began to preach this message: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near!”
Matthew 4:23-25
23 Jesus went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness among the people.
24 So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.
25 And large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan River.
Mark 1:29-31
29 Now as soon as they left the synagogue, they entered Simon and Andrew’s house, with James and John.
30 Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.
31 He came and raised her up by gently taking her hand. Then the fever left her and she began to serve them.
Luke 4:38-39
38 After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.
39 So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.
Matthew 8:14-15
14 Now when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down, sick with a fever. 15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve them.
Matthew 8:16-17
16 When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.
17 In this way what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: “He took our weaknesses and carried our diseases.”
Mark 1:32-39
32 When it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and demon-possessed. 33 The whole town gathered by the door.
34 So he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he would not permit the demons to speak because they knew him.
35 Then Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.
36 Simon and his companions searched for him.
37 When they found him, they said, “Everyone is looking for you.”
38 He replied, “Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do.”
39 So he went into all of Galilee preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.
Luke 4:40-44
40 As the sun was setting, all those who had any relatives sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. He placed his hands on every one of them and healed them.
41 Demons also came out of many, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak because they knew that he was the Christ.
42 The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.
43 But Jesus said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”
44 So he continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.
LAST EDIT: 22:27 / 25 July 2026
ORIGINAL POST: 23 January 2024