And he took [it] down [and] wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed him in a tomb cut into the rock where no one had ever been placed.

And the women who had been accompanying him from Galilee followed [and] saw the tomb and how his body was placed.

And they found the stone had been rolled away from the tomb,

He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he spoke to you [while he] was still in Galilee,

saying, "The Lord has really been raised, and has appeared to Simon!"

(And they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

And a certain man was there who had [been] thirty-eight years in his sickness.

Jesus, [when he] saw this one lying [there] and knew that he had [been sick] a long time already, said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!"

And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father."

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

Then the Pharisees replied to them, "You have not also been deceived, [have you]?

So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.

They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"

So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.

So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!"

From {time immemorial} it has not been heard that someone opened the eyes of one born blind.

(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about {real sleep}.)

So [when he] arrived, Jesus found he had already [been] four days in the tomb.

So Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was [and] saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."

(His disciples did not understand these [things] at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these [things] had been written about him and they did these [things] to him.)

in order that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when [her] child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

and all my [things] are yours, and your [things] [are] mine, and I have been glorified in them.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.

Now on the first [day] of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, [while it] was still dark, and saw the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

and she saw two angels in white, seated one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been lying.

Now [when it] was evening on that day--the first [day] of the week--and the doors had been shut where the disciples were because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace to you."

And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. [Although] the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, "Peace to you."

This [was] now [the] third [time] Jesus was revealed to the disciples [after he] had been raised from the dead.

Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out this that you see and hear.

Now [when they] saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were astonished, and recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.

And [because they] saw the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in return.

For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more [than] forty years [old].

So they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin rejoicing, because they had been considered worthy to be dishonored for the sake of the name.

And [when he] saw one of them being unjustly harmed, he defended [him] and {avenged} the one who had been oppressed [by] striking down the Egyptian.

"And [when] forty years had been completed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush.

Now those who had been scattered went about proclaiming the good news [of] the word.

Now a certain man {named} Simon had been in the city practicing magic and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying he was someone great.

(For he had not yet fallen on any of them, {but they had only been baptized} in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

And he found there a certain man {named} Aeneas who was paralyzed, who had been lying on a mat for eight years.

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed within himself [as to] what the vision that he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having found the house of Simon by asking around, stood at the gate.

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charitable deeds have been remembered before God.

Therefore I sent for you at once, and you {were kind enough to come}. So now we all are present before God to hear all the things that have been commanded to you by the Lord."

not to all the people but to us who had been chosen beforehand by God [as] witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

And those believers from the circumcision who had accompanied Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

And behold, at once three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea approached the house in which we were [staying].

Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, proclaiming the message to no one except Jews alone.

"Men [and] brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who fear God--to us the message of this salvation has been sent!

and from there they sailed away to Antioch where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had completed.

So now why are you putting God to the test [by] placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

'After these [things] I will return and build up again the tent of David that has fallen, and the [parts] of it that had been torn down I will build up again and will restore it,

but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.

And as they went through the towns, they passed on to them to observe the rules that had been decided by the apostles and elders [who were] in Jerusalem.

And they traveled through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the message of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there too, inciting and stirring up the crowds.

But [when] Paul was about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it was some crime or wicked villainy, O Jews, {I would have been justified in accepting} your complaint.

This man had been instructed [in] the way of the Lord, and being enthusiastic in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the [things] about Jesus, [although he] knew only the baptism of John.

Now when these [things] were completed, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, "After I have been there, it is necessary [for] me to see Rome also."

And they have been informed about you that you are teaching all the Jews [who are] among the Gentiles [the] abandonment of Moses, telling them not to circumcise [their] children or to live according to [our] customs.

Take these [men] [and] purify yourself along with them and {pay their expenses} so that they can shave [their] heads, and everyone will know that [the things] which they had been informed about you are nothing, but you yourself also agree with observing the law.

But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter [after] deciding they should avoid food sacrificed to idols and blood and [what has been] strangled and sexual immorality."

So I said, 'What should I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up [and] proceed to Damascus, and there it will be told to you about all [the things] that have been appointed for you to do.'

And [when] he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse [him], saying, "We have experienced much peace through you, and reforms are taking place in this nation through your foresight.

And [when] the governor gestured for him to speak, Paul replied, "[Because I] know you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I defend myself cheerfully [with respect to] the things concerning myself.

You can ascertain that {it has not been more than} twelve days {since} I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

To {them} I replied that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before the one who had been accused met [his] accusers face to [face] and received an opportunity for a defense concerning the accusation.

And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar."

Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles. They also will listen!"

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified about by the law and the prophets--

Therefore, where [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

"Blessed [are they] whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins are covered over.

Therefore, [because we] have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Therefore, by much more, [because we] have been declared righteous now by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

For if, [while we] were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, by much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

knowing that Christ, [because he] has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him.

and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit [leading] to sanctification, and its end [is] eternal life.

But now we have been released from the law, [because we] have died [to that] by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter [of the law].

For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected [it], in hope

for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

For just as you formerly were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of the disobedience of these,

so also these have now been disobedient for your mercy, in order that they also may now be shown mercy.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?

But I have written to you more boldly on [some] points, so as to remind you [again] because of the grace that has been given to me by God,

And so, having as my ambition to proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, in order that I will not build on the foundation belonging to someone else,

in order that you may welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever task she may have need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, even me myself.

just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed in you,