JESUS - JOHN'S GOSPEL

John's Gospel

1:1-5 - The light still shines in the darkness.

1:9-13 - The light gave people the power to become sons of God.

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3:1-2 - One night Nicodemus, a leading Jew and a Pharisee, came to see Jesus.

"Master," he began, "we realise that you are a teacher who has come from God. Obviously no one could show the signs that you show unless God were with him."

3:3 - "Believe me," returned Jesus, "a man cannot even see the kingdom of God without being born again."

3:5-8 - "I assure you," said Jesus, "that unless a man is born from water and from spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

"Flesh gives birth to flesh and spirit gives birth to spirit: you must not be surprised that I told you that all of you must be born again.

"The wind blows where it likes, you can hear the sound of it but you have no idea where it comes from and where it goes. Nor can you tell how a man is born by the wind of the Spirit."



3:9 - "How on earth can things like this happen?" replied Nicodemus.

3:10-21 - "Light has entered the world and men have preferred darkness to light because their deeds are evil.

"Anybody who does wrong hates the light and keeps away from it, for fear his deeds may be exposed.

"But anybody who is living by the truth will come to the light to make it plain that all he has done has been done through God."

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4:1-7 - Jesus meets a Samaritan woman.

4:8-9 - "Please give me a drink," Jesus said to her.

4:13-14 - Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

"But whoever drinks the water I will give him will never be thirsty again.

"For my gift will become a spring in the man himself, welling up into eternal life."

4:21-24 - "Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when worshipping the Father will not be a matter of 'on this hill-side' or 'in Jerusalem'.

"The time is coming, yes, and has already come, when true worshippers will worship in spirit and in reality.

"God is spirit, and those who worship him can only worship in spirit and in reality."

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4:31 - The disciples were begging him, "Master, do eat something."

4:32 - To which Jesus replied, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

4:34-38 - Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who sent me and finishing the work he has given me."

5:19-29 - Jesus said, "I assure you that the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing."

"I solemnly assure you that the man who hears what I have to say and believes in the one who has sent me has eternal life."

5:30-37a - "By myself I can do nothing."

6:32-33 - Jesus said: "the bread of God which comes down from Heaven gives life to the world."

6:61-64a - Jesus said: "It is the Spirit which gives life. The flesh will not help you. The things which I have told you are spiritual and are life. But some of you will not believe me."

7:16-18 - Jesus said: "My teaching is not really mine but comes from the one who sent me.



8:2-5 - The scribes and Pharisees brought in to him a woman who had been caught in adultery. They made her stand in front, and then said to him, "Now, master, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. According to the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. Now, what do you say about her?"

8:6-9a - Jesus said:  "Let the one among you who has never sinned throw the first stone at her."

8:9b-10 - Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing where they had put her. So he stood up and said to her, "Where are they all - did no one condemn you?"

8:11 - And she said, "No one, sir."

"Neither do I condemn you," said Jesus to her. "Go home and do not sin again."

"Yin is negative, dark, and feminine; Yang positive, bright, and masculine."

8:31-32 - So Jesus said to some Jews, "Believe me when I tell you that every man who commits sin is a slave."

8:42-47 - "Your father is the devil, and what you are wanting to do is what your father longs to do. He always was a murderer, and has never dealt with the truth, since the truth will have nothing to do with him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

8:58 - "I tell you in solemn truth," said Jesus, "before there was an Abraham, I AM!"



10:34-38 - Jesus said to some Jews: "Is it not written in your own Law 'I have said you are gods'?"

"The Father is in me and I am in the Father."

12:23-26 - Jesus said, "I tell you truly that unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain of wheat; but if it does, it brings a good harvest.

14:9-14 - Jesus said to his disciples: "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?

"The very words I say to you are not my own. It is the Father who lives in me who carries out his work through me. Do you believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?"

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14:15-20 - "I shall ask the Father to give you someone else to stand by you, to be with you always. I mean the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, for it can neither see nor recognise that Spirit.

"But you recognise him, for he is with you now and will be in your hearts."

"You will realise that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and I am in you."

14:21 - "Every man who knows my commandments and obeys them is the man who really loves me, and every man who really loves me will himself be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and make myself known to him."

14:23-24 - "When a man loves me, he follows my teaching. Then my Father will love him, and we will come to that man and make our home within him."

14:24-26 - "The Holy Spirit will be your teacher and will bring to your minds all that I have said to you.



15:1-8 - "I am the real vine, my Father is the vine-dresser.

"He removes any of my branches which are not bearing fruit and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit to increase its yield.

"Now, you have already been pruned by my words. You must go on growing in me and I will grow in you.

"For just as the branch cannot bear any fruit unless it shares the life of the vine, so you can produce nothing unless you go on growing in me.

"I am the vine itself, you are the branches. It is the man who shares my life and whose life I share who proves fruitful.

"If you live your life in me, and my words live in your hearts, you can ask for whatever you like and it will come true for you."

15:9-15 - "Love each other as I have loved you."

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JESUS - LUKE'S GOSPEL

3:11 - John said: "The man who has two shirts must share with the man who has none, and the man who has food must do the same."

3:12 - Some of the tax-collectors also came to him to be baptised and they asked him, "Master, what are we to do?"

3:13 - "You must not demand more than you are entitled to," he replied.

3:14 - And the soldiers asked him, "And what are we to do?"

"Don't bully people, don't bring false charges," he replied.

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5:12 - While he was in one of the towns, Jesus came upon a man who was a mass of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he prostrated himself before him and begged, "If you want to, Lord, you can make me clean."

5:13 - Jesus stretched out his hand, placed it on the leper, saying, "Certainly I want to. Be clean!"

5:14 - Immediately the leprosy left him.


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6:20 - Jesus said, "How happy are you who own nothing, for the kingdom of God is yours!

6:24 - "But how miserable for you who are rich, for you have had all your comforts!"



6:27-28 - "I say to all of you who will listen to me: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who treat you badly.

6:29a - "As for the man who hits you on one cheek, offer him the other one as well!

6:31 - "Treat men exactly as you would like them to treat you."

6:32-35 - "You are to love your enemies."

6:37-38 - "Don't judge other people and you will not be judged yourselves. Don't condemn and you will not be condemned.

"Give and men will give to you - yes, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over will they pour into your lap."



6:39-40 - "A disciple is not above his teacher, but when he is fully trained he will be like his teacher."

6:41-42 - "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and fail to notice the plank in your own? Take the plank out of your own eye first."

6:43-45 - "A good man produces good things from the good stored up in his heart, and a bad man produce evil things from his own stores of evil."



6:46- "And what is the point of calling me, 'Lord, Lord', without doing what I tell you to do?"

6:47-49 - "Let me show you what the man who comes to me, hears what I have to say, and puts it into practice, is really like.

"He is like a man building a house, who dug down to rock-bottom and laid the foundation of his house upon it.

"Then when the flood came and flood-water swept down upon that house, it could not shift it because it was properly built."

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7:11-13 - Some people were carrying out a dead man, the only son of his widowed mother.

7:14 - Then he walked up and put his hand on the bier while the bearers stood still. Then he said, "Young man, wake up!"

7:15-16 - And the dead man sat up and began to talk.


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7:36-39 - Then one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to a meal with him.

7:44-47 - Jesus said to Simon, "You can see this woman?

"I came into your house but you provided no water to wash my feet. But she has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

"There was no warmth in your greeting, but she, from the moment I came in, has not stopped covering my feet with kisses.

"You gave me no oil for my head, but she has put perfume on my feet.

"That is why I tell you, Simon, that her sins, many as they are, are forgiven; for she has shown me so much love.

"But the man who has little to be forgiven has only a little love to give."

Jesus said to the woman, "It is your faith that has saved you. Go in peace."

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8:1-3 - Jesus was accompanied by the twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and illnesses - Mary, known as "the woman from Magdala" (who had once been possessed by seven evil spirits)

8:21 - Jesus said: "My mother and my brothers? That means those who listen to God's message and obey it."



10:30-36 - And Jesus said: "A man fell into the hands of bandits who stripped off his clothes, beat him up, and left him half dead.

"It so happened that a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

"A Levite also came on the scene and when he saw him, he too passed by on the other side.

"But then a Samaritan traveller came along to the place where the man was lying, and at the sight of him he was touched with pity.

"He went across to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own mule, brought him to an inn and did what he could for him.

"Next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the inn-keeper with the words, 'Look after him, will you? I will pay you back whatever more you spend, when I come through here on my return.' Which of these three seems to you to have been a neighbour to the bandits' victim?"

10:37 - "The man who gave him practical sympathy," he replied. "Then you go and give the same," returned Jesus.



11:9-10 - Jesus said: "ask and it will be given you, search and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. The one who asks will always receive; the one who is searching will always find, and the door is opened to the man who knocks."

11:24-26 - Jesus said: "When the evil spirit comes out of a man, it wanders through waterless places looking for rest, and when it fails to find any, it says, 'I will go back to my house from which I came.'

"When it arrives, it finds it cleaned and all in order. Then it goes and collects seven other spirits more evil than itself to keep it company, and they all go in and make themselves at home. The last state of that man is worse than the first."


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11:37-44 - Jesus said: "You Pharisees are fond of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside yourselves you are full of greed and wickedness!"
11:52 - "Alas for you experts in the Law."

14:12-14 - Jesus said, "When you give a party, invite the poor, the lame, the crippled and the blind. That way lies real happiness for you. they have no means of repaying you, but you will be repaid when good men are rewarded - at the resurrection."

15:3-7 - Jesus said: "there is more joy over one sinner whose heart is changed than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need for repentance.

16:13 - "No servant can serve two masters. He is bound to hate one and love the other, or give his loyalty to one and despise the other.

"You cannot serve God and the power of money at the same time."


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17:1-3a - Then Jesus said to his disciples, "It is inevitable that there should be pitfalls, but alas for the man who is responsible for them! It would be better for that man to have a mill-stone hung round his neck and be thrown into the sea, than that he should trip up one of these little ones. So be careful how you live.

17:3b-4 - "If your brother offends you, take him to task about it, and if he is sorry, forgive him. Yes, if he wrongs you seven times in one day and turns to you and says, 'I am sorry' seven times, you must forgive him."


17:5 - And the apostles said to Jesus, "Give us more faith."

17:6 - And he replied, "If your faith were as big as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this fig-tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea', and it would do what you said!"

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17:20-21 - Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he gave them this reply: "The kingdom of God never comes by watching for it. Men cannot say, 'Look, here it is', or 'there it is', for the kingdom of God is inside you."

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18:15-17 - Jesus said: I tell you, the man who will not accept the kingdom of God like a little child will never get into it at all."

18:22 - Jesus said: "Sell everything you possess and give the money away to the poor, and you will have riches in Heaven. Then come and follow me."

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JESUS - MARK'S GOSPEL.

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Mark 1:14-15 - Jesus said "You must change your hearts and minds and believe the good news."

7:18-23 - Jesus said: "whatever comes out of a man, that is what makes a man 'common' or unclean.

"For it is from inside, from men's hearts and minds, that evil thoughts arise - lust, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, arrogance and folly!

"All these evil things come from inside a man and make him unclean!"

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1:21-24 - A man in the grip of 'an evil spirit' appeared in the synagogue shouting out.

1:25 - But Jesus cut him short and spoke sharply, "Hold your tongue and get out of him!"

1:26-27 - At this the evil spirit convulsed the man, let out a loud scream and left him.

1:29-31 - Jesus went to the house of Simon and Andrew, accompanied by James and John.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a high fever, and they lost no time in telling Jesus about her.

He went up to her, took her hand and helped her to her feet.

The fever left her, and she began to see to their needs.

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1:32-34 - Late that evening, after sunset, they kept bringing to him all who were sick or troubled by evil spirits. 

The whole population of the town gathered round the doorway. And he healed great numbers of people who were suffering from various forms of disease.

1:39 - He continued expelling evil spirits throughout the whole of Galilee.

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1:40 - A leper came to Jesus, knelt in front of him and appealed to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

1:41 - Jesus was filled with pity for him, and stretched out his hand and placed it on the leper, saying, "Of course I want to - be clean!"

1:42-44 - At once the leprosy left him and he was quite clean.

2:1-5 - He re-entered Capernaum some days later, a rumour spread that he was in somebody's house.

A group of people arrived to see him, bringing with them a paralytic whom four of them were carrying.

And when they found it was impossible to get near him because of the crowd, they removed the tiles from the roof over Jesus' head and let down the paralytic's bed through the opening.

And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man on the bed, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

2:6-7 - But some of the scribes were sitting there silently asking themselves, "Why does this man talk such blasphemy? Who can possibly forgive sins but God?"

2:8-11 - Jesus realised instantly what they were thinking, and said to them, "why must you argue like this in your minds? Which do you suppose is easier - to say to a paralysed man, 'Your sins are forgiven', or 'Get up, pick up your bed and walk?"

Jesus spoke to the paralytic - "Get up, pick up your bed and go home."

2:12 - At once the man sprang to his feet, picked up his bed and walked off in full view of them all.

2:13 - Then Jesus went out again by the lake-side and the whole crowd came to him, and he continued to teach them.

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2:14 - As Jesus went on his way, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at his desk in the tax office and he said to him, "Follow me!"

2:15-16 - Levi got up and followed him. Later, when Jesus was sitting at dinner in Levi's house, a large number of tax-collectors and disreputable folk came in and joined him and his disciples. For there were many such people among his followers.

When the scribes and Pharisees saw him eating in the company of tax-collectors and outsiders, they remarked to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax-collectors and sinners?"

2:17 - When Jesus heard this, he said to them, "It is not the fit and flourishing who need the doctor, but those who are ill."

3:1-3 - On another occasion when he went into the synagogue, there was a man there whose hand was shrivelled, and they were watching Jesus closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, so that they might bring a charge against him.

3:5-6 - Jesus said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" And he stretched it out, and the hand was restored as sound as the other one.

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4:13-20 -  Jesus said: "The seed sown among the rocks represents those who hear the message without hesitation and accept it joyfully. But they have no real roots and do not last - when trouble or persecution arises because of the message, they give up their faith at once.

"Then there are the seeds which were sown among thorn-bushes. These are the people who hear the message, but the worries of this world and the false glamour of riches and all sorts of other ambitions creep in and choke the life out of what they have heard, and it produces no crop in their lives.

"As for the seed sown on good soil, this means the men who hear the message and accept it and do produce a crop - thirty, sixty, even a hundred times as much as they received."

4:30-32 - Then he continued, "What can we say the kingdom of God is like? It is like a tiny grain of mustard-seed which, when it is sown, is smaller than any seed that is ever sown. But after it is sown in the earth, it grows up and becomes bigger than any other plant. It shoots out great branches so that birds can come and nest in its shelter."

4:36-38 - Jesus was with his disciples on a boat on a lake. Then came a violent squall of wind which drove the waves aboard the boat until it was almost swamped.

Jesus was in the stern asleep on the cushion. They awoke him with the words, "Master, don't you care that we're drowning?"

4:39 - And he woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the waves, "Hush now! Be still!" The wind dropped and everything was very still.

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5:1-7 -  As Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man in the grip of an evil spirit rushed to meet him from among the tombs where he was living.

It was no longer possible for any human being to restrain him even with a chain.

All through the night as well as in the day-time he screamed among the tombs and on the hill-side, and cut himself with stones.

Now, as soon as he saw Jesus in the distance, he ran and knelt before him, yelling at the top of his voice, "What have you got to do with me, Jesus? For God's sake, don't torture me!"

5:8 - For Jesus had already said, "Come out of this man, you evil spirit!"

5:9 - Then he asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is legion," he replied, "for there are many of us."

5:10 - Then he begged and prayed him not to send "them" out of the country.

5:11-12 - A large herd of pigs was grazing there on the hill-side, and the evil spirits implored him, "Send us over to the pigs and we'll get into them!"

5:13-19 - So Jesus allowed them to do this, and they came out of the man.

Then the people came to see what had happened. As they approached Jesus, they saw the man who had been devil-possessed sitting there properly clothed and perfectly sane.

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5:24-28 - There was a woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years and who had gone through a great deal at the hands of many doctors (or physicians), spending all her money in the process.

This woman had heard about Jesus and came up behind him under cover of the crowd, and touched his cloak, "For if I can only touch his clothes," she said, "I shall be all right."

5:29-30 - The haemorrhage stopped immediately.

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5:35 - While he was still speaking, messengers arrived from the synagogue president's house, saying, "Your daughter is dead - there is no need to bother the master any further."

5:36 - But when Jesus heard this, he said, "Now don't be afraid, just go on believing!"

5:37-39 - Then he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John, James's brother. They arrived at the president's house and Jesus noticed the hubbub and all the weeping and wailing, and as he went in, he said to the people in the house, "Why are you making such a noise with your crying? The child is not dead; she is fast asleep."

5:40-41 - They greeted this with a scornful laugh. But Jesus turned them all out, and taking only the father and mother and his own companions with him, went into the room where the child was. Then he took the little girl's hand and said to her in Aramaic, "Little girl, I tell you to get up!"

5:42-43 - At once she jumped to her feet and walked around the room, for she was twelve years old. This sight sent the others nearly out their minds with joy. But Jesus gave them strict instructions not to let anyone know what had happened - and ordered food to be given to the little girl.

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6:1-4 - Then he left that district and came into his own native town followed by his disciples.

6:5-6a - And he could do nothing miraculous there apart from laying his hands on a few sick people and healing them; their lack of faith astonished him.

6:6b-11 - He summoned the twelve, and began to send them out in twos.

6:12-13 - So they went out and preached that men should change their whole outlook.

They expelled many evil spirits and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.

Jesus miraculously fed five thousand people and walked on water.

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