Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'?

even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you.

He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.

but now I am going to him who sent me. And yet not one of you asks, 'Where are you going?'

Yet ??I am telling you the truth ??my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you.

Jesus knew they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are discussing together, why I said, 'In a little while, you will not see me: then, after a little, you shall see me'?

since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him.

And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

Then Jesus, who knew everything that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

So the troops and their commander and the Jewish attendants seized Jesus, bound him,

and brought him first of all to Annas (for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year ??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interests that one man should die for the people).

As he said this, one of the attendants who stood by gave him a blow, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?"

Then Annas had him bound and sent him to Caiaphas the high priest.

They asked him, "Are you not one of his disciples?" He denied it, saying, "No,"

Said one of the high priest's servants, a kinsman of the man whose ear had been cut off by Peter, "Did I not see you with him in the orchard?"

They retorted, "If he had not been a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you."

Then said Pilate, "Take him yourselves, and sentence him according to your own Law." The Jews said, "We have no right to put anyone to death"

"Truth!" said Pilate, "what is truth!" With these words he went outside to the Jews again and told them, "I cannot find anything wrong about him.

Again they yelled, "No, not him! Bar-Abbas!" Now Bar-Abbas was a robber.

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.

And the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe,

marching up to him and shouting, "Hail, king of the Jews!" ??and striking him.

Again Pilate went out and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you. Understand, I cannot find anything wrong about him."

Now when the high priests and their attendants saw him, they yelled, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said, "Take him and crucify him yourselves! I find nothing wrong about him."

This made Pilate anxious to release him, but the Jews yelled, "If you release him, you are no friend of Caesar's! Anyone who makes himself a king is against Caesar!"

On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out and seated him on the tribunal at a spot called the 'mosaic pavement' ??the Hebrew name is Gabbatha

Then they yelled, "Off with him! Off with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your king?" said Pilate. The high priests retorted, "We have no king but Caesar!"

Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

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

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and of the other man who had been crucified along with him;

For this took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him will be broken.

And another scripture also says, They shall look on him whom they have impaled.

After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, a disciple of Jesus but a secret disciple ??for fear of the Jews ??asked Pilate for permission to remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed him. So he went and removed the body,

she ran off to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the favourite of Jesus, telling them, "They have taken the master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!"

Then Simon Peter came after him, and went inside the tomb; he noticed not only that the bandages were lying on the ground

"Woman," they said to her, "why are you sobbing?" She said, "Because they have taken away my master, and I do not know where they have put him!"

"Woman," said Jesus, "why are you sobbing? Who are you looking for?" Supposing he was the gardener, she said, "Oh, sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you put him, and I will remove him."

and when the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord," he said, "Unless I see his hands with the mark of the nails, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it."

Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus said to him, "You believe because you have seen me? Blessed be those who believe though they have never seen me."

Jesus said, "Come and breakfast." (Not one of the disciples dared to ask him who he was; they knew it was the Lord.)

Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus.

For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

So, on catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "And what about him, Lord?"

Now when they met, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time you are going to restore the Realm to Israel?"

On saying this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him out of sight.

who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

With the money paid him for his crime he purchased an estate; but swelling up he burst in two, and all his bowels poured out ??19 a fact which became known to all the residents in Jerusalem, so that the estate got the name, in their language, of Akeldamach or The Ground of Blood.

and they prayed, "O Lord, who readest the hearts of all, do thou single out from these two men him whom thou hast chosen

Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him.

For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand.

(He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne;

So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."

Peter looked at him steadily, as did John, and said, "Look at us."

And catching him by the right hand he raised him. Instantly his feet and ankles grew strong,

When all the people saw him walking and praising God,

and when they recognized this was the very man who used to sit and beg at the Gate Beautiful, they were lost in awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours?

The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.

It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

sold a farm belonging to him and brought the money, which he placed before the feet of the apostles.

The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you murdered by hanging him on a gibbet.

God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

To these facts we bear witness, with the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him."

In days gone by Theudas started up, claiming to be a person of importance; a number of men, about four hundred of them, rallied to him, but he was slain, and all his followers were dispersed and wiped out.

After him Judas the Galilean started up at the time of the census, and got people to desert to him; but he perished too, and all his followers were scattered.

They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus.

They then instigated people to say, "We have heard him talking blasphemy against Moses and God."

In this way they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, who rushed on him, dragged him away, and took him before the Sanhedrin.

Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"

Then all who were seated in the Sanhedrin fixed their eyes on him, and saw that his face shone like the face of an angel.

and said to him, 'Leave your land and your countrymen and come to whatever land I show you.'

Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and stayed in Haran. From Haran God shifted him, after his father's death, to this land which you now inhabit.

But he did not give him any inheritance in it, not even a foot of the land. All be did was to promise that he would give it as a possession to him and to his offspring after him (he at the time being childless).

God also gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, whom he circumcised on the eighth day, Isaac was the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

Out of jealousy the patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him,

rescuing him from all his troubles and allowing him to find favour for his wisdom with Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him viceroy over Egypt and over all his own household.

then he was exposed, but Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

When he had completed his fortieth year, it occurred to him to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

He saw one of them being badly treated, so he defended him, struck down the Egyptian, and thus avenged the man who had been wronged.

(He thought his brothers would understand God was going to bring them deliverance by means of him, but they did not understand.)

But the man who was injuring his neighbour pushed him aside. "Who made you ruler and umpire over us?" he asked.

At that Moses fled; he became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons born to him.

At the close of forty years an angel [of the Lord] appeared to him in the flames of a burning thorn-bush, in the desert of mount Sinai.

But the Lord said to him, 'Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is sacred ground.

The Moses they refused, when they said, 'Who made you ruler and umpire?' ??that was the very man whom God sent to rule and to redeem them, by aid of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

This was the man who at the assembly in the desert intervened between the angel who spoke to him on mount Sinai and our fathers; he received living Words to be given to us.

But our fathers would not submit to him; they pushed him aside and hankered secretly after Egypt.

They told Aaron, 'Make gods that will march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him!'

In the desert our fathers had the tent of witness as arranged by Him who told Moses to make it after the pattern he had seen.

It was Solomon, however, who built him a house.

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! ??53 you who got the Law that angels transmitted, and have not obeyed it!"

When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).