Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.

You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”

If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.”

The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.

For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.

As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.

They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.

But when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.

But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.