and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheepgate a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five colonnades.

In these there used to lie a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.

There was one man there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw him lying there, and finding that he had been in this condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

But Jesus went up on the hill, and sat down there with his disciples.

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

So when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were any longer there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of him.

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

Whoever speaks simply for himself is looking for honor for himself, but whoever looks for honor for the person who has sent him shows his sincerity; there is no dishonesty about him.

I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

But I do not seek honor for myself; there is someone who seeks it for me, and is the judge of it.

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

The man answered, "There is something very strange about this! You do not know where he came from, and yet he has made me able to see!

He went across the Jordan again to the place where John used to baptize at first, and there he stayed.

The disciples said to him, "Master, the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

He told them this, and then he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

"Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

In consequence of this, Jesus did not appear in public among the Jews any longer, but he left that neighborhood and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

So they were looking for Jesus there, and asking one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come to the festival at all?"

They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with him.

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival,

Father, honor your own name!" Then there came a voice from the sky, "I have honored it, and I will honor it again!"

There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

Now, Father, do such honor to me in your presence as I had done me there before the world existed.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the Ravine of the Cedars where there was a garden, and he went into it with his disciples.

Judas who betrayed him also knew the place, for Jesus often met his disciples there.

So Judas got out the garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. And Pilate said to the Jews, "There is your king!"

There they crucified him, with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, said to his mother, "There is your son!"

Then he said to his disciple, "There is your mother!" And from that time his disciple took her into his home.

A bowl of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge soaked in the wine on a pike and held it to his lips.

There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

So because it was the Jewish Preparation day, and the tomb was close by, they put Jesus there.

As she said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was he.

There were many other signs that Jesus showed before his disciples which are not recorded in this book.

So Simon Peter got into the boat, and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them, and though there were so many, the net was not torn.

There are many other things that Jesus did, so many in fact that if they were all written out, I do not suppose that the world itself would hold the books that would have to be written.

When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

when suddenly there came from the sky a sound like a violent blast of wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and declaring that in the case of Jesus there had been a resurrection from the dead.

There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."

There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.

Peter said to her, "How could you two agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? There at the door are the footsteps of the men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out also."

So he left the country of the Chaldeans and went to live in Haran, and from there after the death of his father, God caused him to move into this country where you now live.

Then a famine spread all over Egypt and Canaan, and there was great suffering, and our forefathers could not find any food.

But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt, and he sent our forefathers on their first visit there.

and Jacob came down to Egypt. There he and our forefathers died,

At those words Moses fled, and went and lived for a time in Midian, and two sons were born to him there.

It was he who brought them out of Egypt, and did wonders and signs there, and at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the desert.

" 'The sky is my throne, And the earth a footstool for my feet. What house can you build for me? says the Lord, Or what place is there where I can rest?

So there was great rejoicing in that city.

There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions.

Everyone there, high and low, made much of him, and said, "He must be what is known as the Great Power of God!"

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a member of the court of Candace, queen of Ethiopia, her chief treasurer, who had come up to Jerusalem to worship,

As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"

and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there who belonged to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

"But get up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you ought to do."

There was at Damascus a disciple named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" And he answered, "Yes, Lord!"

The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called the Straight Street, and ask at the house of Judas for a man named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is there praying.

Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

There he found a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years.

Among the disciples at Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, which is in Greek Dorcas, that is, gazelle. She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity.

As Joppa was near Lydda, the disciples heard that Peter was there, and they sent two men to him, urging him to come over without delay.

There was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in what was known as the Italian regiment.

and they called out to ask if Simon who was called Peter was staying there.

As Peter was pondering over his vision, the Spirit said to him, "There are two men looking for you.

And he directed that they should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on there a few days.

There were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them, however, who when they reached Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, and told them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

The Lord's hand was with them, and there were a great many who believed and turned to the Lord.

When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,

and one of them named Agabus got up and under the influence of the Spirit revealed the fact that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. This was the famine that occurred in the reign of Claudius.

But when morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.

Herod had inquiries made for him, and when he could not find him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be put to death. Then he left Judea for Caesarea, and stayed there.

There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.

Being sent out in this way by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, and there they came across a Jewish magician and false prophet named Barjesus.

Paul and his companions sailed from Paphos and went to Perga in Pamphylia. There John left them and returned to Jerusalem,

but they went on from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue there and took seats.

They spent some time there, speaking fearlessly and relying upon the Lord, who bore witness to his gracious message by letting signs and wonders be done by them.

And when there was a movement on the part of both the heathen and the Jews with the authorities to insult and stone them,

and there they went on preaching the good news.

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been commended to God's favor for the work which they had now finished.

When they arrived there, they called the church together, and reported how God had worked with them, and how he had opened the way to faith for the heathen.

There they stayed for a long time with the disciples.

He went to Derbe and Lystra also. At Lystra there was a disciple named Timothy whose mother was a Jewish Christian while his father was a Greek,

There Paul had a vision one night; a Macedonian was standing appealing to him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."