The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are?

Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your eyes?

If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.

All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.

And a great number of people came to him, saying, John did no sign: but everything John said of this man was true.

So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.

Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.

When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house.

Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.

When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she went down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

So Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole in the rock, and a stone was over the opening.

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God?

And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.

He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.

Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:

And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.

One of the servants of the high priest, a relation of him whose ear had been cut off by Peter, said, Did I not see you with him in the garden?

So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

Jesus made answer, Do you say this of yourself, or did others say it about me?

And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head (in Hebrew, Golgotha):

So they said among themselves, Let this not be cut up, but let us put it to the decision of chance and see who gets it. (They did this so that the Writings might come true, which say, They made a distribution of my clothing among them, and my coat they put to the decision of chance.) This was what the men of the army did.

But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead by this time, and so his legs were not broken;

Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

Now there was a garden near the cross, and in the garden a new place for the dead in which no man had ever been put.

Then she went running to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple who was loved by Jesus, and said to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the place of the dead and we have no knowledge where they have put him.

So Peter and the other disciple went out to the place of the dead.

And looking in, he saw the linen bands on the earth; but he did not go in,

For at that time they had no knowledge that the Writings said that he would have to come again from the dead.

A number of other signs Jesus did before his disciples which are not recorded in this book:

Now this was the third time that Jesus let himself be seen by the disciples after he had come back from the dead.

So this saying went about among the brothers that this disciple would not undergo death: Jesus, however, did not say that he would not undergo death, but, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you?

And Jesus did such a number of other things that, if every one was recorded, it is my opinion that even the world itself is not great enough for the books there would be.

I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,

My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.

He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge.

Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.

If we are questioned today about a good work done to a man who was ill, as to how he has been made well,

Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.

And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.

And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.

Will you put me to death as you did the Egyptian yesterday?

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

Did not my hand make all these things?

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

And all the people gave attention to the words which Philip said, when they saw the signs which he did.

And Simon himself had faith and, having had baptism, he went with Philip and, seeing the signs and the great wonders which he did, he was full of surprise.

And we are witnesses of all the things which he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they put to death, hanging him on a tree.

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

Which they did, sending it to the rulers of the church by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

Then the angel said, Put on your shoes and get ready to go. And he did so. And he said, Put your coat round you and come with me.

And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.

But God gave him back from the dead:

And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.

But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;

And having come to Mysia, they made an attempt to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not let them;

And this she did on a number of days. But Paul was greatly troubled and, turning, said to the spirit, I give you orders in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings,

And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

And he said to them, Did you get the Holy Spirit when you had faith? And they said to him, No, we have had no knowledge of the Holy Spirit.

And he said, What sort of baptism did you have? And they said, The baptism of John.

And God did special works of power by the hands of Paul:

And there were seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jew and a chief priest, who did this.

And when Paul was about to go in to the people, the disciples did not let him.

And a certain young man named Eutychus, who was seated in the window, went into a deep sleep; and while Paul went on talking, being overcome by sleep, he had a fall from the third floor, and was taken up dead.

And as he might not be moved we did no more, saying, Let the purpose of God be done.

I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead.

For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the Pharisees have belief in all these.

And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to deat

Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers.

But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.

But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living.