Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Just as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and as I abide in his love.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, just as I have loved you.

I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father.

Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your's also.

But it is in order that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, "They hated me without a cause."

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

They will put you out of their synagogues: yea, the hour is coming, that every one who killeth you will think he offers God a sacred service.

But these things have I spoken to you, that when the hour is come, ye may remember the same for I had told you. But these things I told you not at the beginning, because I was with you.

Yet I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I went not away, the Comforter would not come to you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.

But when he is come, the Spirit of truth, he will conduct you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever things he shall hear, he shall speak: and he will declare to you the things that shall come hereafter.

Then said some of the disciples unto each other, What is this which he saith to us, A little while longer, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me: and this, because I am going to the Father?

They said therefore, What is this which he saith, This little while? we know not what he means.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when the little son is born, she no more remembers the anguish, for joy that a man is brought into the world.

These things have I spoken to you in parables: but the hour is coming when I will no more speak to you in parables, but will plainly inform you respecting the Father.

His disciples said unto him, Lo! now thou speakest plainly, and speakest in no-wise proverbial.

Behold, the hour is coming, yea, it is already come, that ye shall be dispersed, each after his own concerns, and shall leave me alone: though I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

THESE things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee:

even as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that with regard to all those whom thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life:

and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah.

And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name's sake whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

When I was with them in the world, I preserved them by thy name: those whom thou hast given me have I guarded, and not one of them is perished, except the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world.

that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that these also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

And I have given them the glory, which thou hast given me; that they may be one, even as we are one:

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

As he then spake to them, I am he, they retreated backward, and fell flat on the ground.

As he was thus speaking, one of the servants who stood by him gave Jesus a slap on the face, saying, Dost thou answer the high-priest in this fashion?

One of the servants of the high-priest, being a kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, Did I not see thee in the garden with him?

Pilate then said to them, Take him yourselves, and according to your own law judge him. The Jews then said to him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:

Jesus replied, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom had been of this world, then would my servants have struggled hard, that I should not have been delivered up to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.

Then said Pilate unto him. Art thou not a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. For this end I was born, and for this I came into the world, that I should be a witness for the truth. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice.

Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And having thus spoken, he went out again unto the Jews and saith to them, I find no fault in him.

And carrying his cross he went forth to a place called the Place of a Skull, which in the Hebrew is termed Golgotha:

They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, "They parted my garments among them, and for my vest they cast lots." So the soldiers therefore did these things.

When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and inclining his head, he surrendered up his spirit.

The Jews therefore, as it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, (for that sabbath-day was a great day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

But when they came to Jesus, as they saw that he was already dead, they brake not his legs:

And he that saw it bore witness, and we know that his testimony is true: and he himself is conscious that he speaketh what is true, that ye might believe.

Then they took the body, and bound it with swathes together with the aromatics, as the custom is with the Jews to bury.

But Mary stood at the sepulchre, without, weeping: as therefore she wept, she bent forward towards the sepulchre.

And as she thus spoke, she turned about, and beheld Jesus standing by, and knew not that it was Jesus.

Jesus saith to her, Mary! Starting round, she said to him, Rabboni! that is, Master!

Jesus therefore spake to them again, Peace be unto you: as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins soever ye retain, they are retained.

Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, the twin, was not with them when Jesus came.

but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Then said that disciple whom Jesus loved to Peter, It is the Lord! Then Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, girt his coat round him, (for he was stripped,) and threw himself into the sea.

Now Peter, turning about, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who also at the supper reclined on his bosom, and said, Lord, which is the person who betrayeth thee?

Jesus saith to him, If I will that he abide till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.

Then this speech went forth among the disciples, as though this disciple was not to die: yet Jesus had not said to him, That he shall not die; but, If I will that he abide till I come, what is that to thee?

This is the disciple who is testifing of these things, and hath written these things: and we know that his testimony is true.

But he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath reserved under his own authority.

But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses for me, both in Jerusalem, and throughout all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the extremity of the earth.

And as he was speaking these things, while they were looking upon him, he was taken up; and a cloud enveloping him hid him from their eyes.

And as they looked up earnestly into the heaven, while he was passing, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

who also said to them, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? this Jesus, who hath been taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, in the same manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Then they returned unto Jerusalem, from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, about a sabbath-day's journey distant.

And it was a fact known to all who dwelt at Jerusalem; so that this field is called in their own dialect, Aceldama, that is, The field of blood.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let there be no man to dwell in it: and his office, as bishop, let another take.

Wherefore from among the men who have associated with us always during the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

beginning from his baptism by John, until the day in which he was taken up from us, must there be chosen with us a witness of his resurrection, even one of these.

So they appointed two persons, Joseph called Barsabas, whose sirname was Justus, and Matthias.

And there came suddenly from heaven a sound as it were of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And there was an appearance to them of divided tongues, as of fire, and it rested on every one of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.

Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and they who inhabit Mesopotamia, and Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,

for these men are not, as ye suppose, drunk, for it is only the third hour of the day.

But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel;

Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazarean, a man from God, pointed out to you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as yourselves also know:

whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: forasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held thereby.

For David speaketh concerning him, "I have seen the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand, that I might not be shaken:

therefore is my heart full of joy, and my tongue hath exulted; and still shall my flesh also repose in hope,

Men and brethren, permit me to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he hath been both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us to this day.

For David is not ascended into the heavens: for he saith himself, "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit on my right hand,

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off; even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as every one had need.

Then Peter fixing his eves stedfastly on him with John, said, Look on us.

But as the lame man that was cured held fast Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them into the portico called Solomon's, in vast amazement.

Then Peter observing it, addressed himself to the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why gaze ye upon us, as if by our own power or piety we had enabled this man to walk?

But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and besought that a man, a murderer, might as a favour be given unto you;

And through faith in his name hath his name restored this man to strength, whom ye behold and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the sight of you all.

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did this deed, as did also your rulers.

And all the prophets indeed from Samuel, and those who succeeded him, as many as have spoken, have also foretold those days.

AND as they were thus speaking, the priests, and the captain of the temple-guard, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

and Annas the high-priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were the high-priest's relations.

This is the stone which, though set at nought by you builders, is become the head of the corner.

And there is no salvation in any other person: for there is no other name under heaven given unto men, whereby we must be saved.

saying, What shall we do with these men? for that an acknowledged miracle hath been wrought by them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.

And as to the present transactions, Lord, look upon their threatnings: and grant thy servants power with all boldness to speak thy word,

Neither was there any person in want among them: for as many as were possessors of fields or houses disposed of them, and brought the prices of the things sold,

and laid them at the apostles' feet: and a distribution was made to every one according as he had need.

And Joses, who was surnamed Barnabas by the apostles, (which is, being interpreted, A son of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian by birth,

Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have conspired together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? see, the feet of them who have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

saying, Did we not lay our strict injunction upon you, that you should not teach in this name? and, lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and would fain bring this man's blood upon us.

But when they heard this, they were cut asunder as with a saw, and took counsel how to make away with them.