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The Pharisees therefore said to each other, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? Behold the world is gone after him.

Verse ConceptsAll NationsUnable To Do Other Things

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone [just one grain, never more]. But if it dies, it produces much grain and yields a harvest.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualFruit, Spiritualevil, victory overGrainWheatGain Through LossDeath To SelfParables Of SowingIsolated PersonsThe Source Of FruitThe Effect Of Christ's DeathChrist Telling The TruthTruly Truly

If I then, the Lord and the teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash each other's feet.

Verse ConceptsFoot washingExamples, Purpose OfClean FeetFeet In ActionCare Of FeetChrist Is LordDutyhealthcare

Therefore the disciples looked at each other, being uncertain about whom he speaks.

Verse ConceptsCommunicationLooking Intently At PeopleUncertain Thingsuncertainty

He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no other did, they had not had sin:

Verse ConceptsEquality With GodFather And Son AlikeHating GodRelationship Of Father And SonHate

Then some of his disciples said to each other, What is this that he said to us? A little while and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while and ye shall see me? and, Because I go to the Father?

Verse ConceptsJesus Returning To The FatherSeeing The Risen ChristNot Seeing ChristThe Disciples WordsChrist's Short LifeShort Time Till The EndThe Father

Now Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, and therefore said unto them, Are ye enquiring among each other about this, that I said, A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a little while and ye shall see me?

Verse ConceptsA Short TimeSeeing The Risen ChristNot Seeing ChristQuestioning ChristChrist Knowing About PeopleChrist's Short LifeShort Time Till The End

[When] Jesus had said these [things], he went out with his disciples to the other side of the ravine of the Kidron, where [there] was a garden into which he and his disciples entered.

Verse ConceptsValleysCrossing To The Other SideDisciples' Movements

And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest,

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristCourtyardKnowing People

and Peter was standing at the door without, therefore went forth the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and he spake to the female keeping the door, and he brought in Peter.

Verse ConceptsKnowing People

Then they shouted out, "Take him away; take him away and crucify him!" Pilate replied to them, "Do you want me to crucify your king?" The leading priests answered, "We do not have any [other] king, except Caesar."

Verse ConceptsChief priestsDuplicating WordsDriving Out ChristChrist Would Be Killed

So they told each other, "Let's not tear it. Instead, let's throw dice to see who gets it." This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they threw dice." So that is what the soldiers did.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Confirmation OfGamblingChrist's Fulfilment Of ProphecyOuter GarmentsNot Tearing ClothesScriptures Fulfilled

Now the cloth that had been around Jesus' head was not lying with the [other] linen cloths, but was rolled up by itself.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadClothNapkinsRolling

and saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, the one at the head, the other at the feet.

Verse ConceptsWhiteJesus CorpseWhite ClothsTwo Angels

Simon Peter said to [the rest of] them, "I am going fishing." The others replied to him, "We will go with you, too." [So], they went out and got into their boat but did not catch anything that night.

Verse ConceptsBoatsGoing TogetherNothingFishingActing All NightDiscipleshipFishpeter

Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodLambsLove, Nature OfShepherds, As Church LeaderNames And Titles For The ChristianBreakfastFeeding AnimalsChrist Knowing About PeopleThe Need To Love Christvulnerability

I tell you the solemn truth, when you were young, you tied your clothes around you and went wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and others will tie you up and bring you where you do not want to go."

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsStretching OutFreshness Of YouthClothing OneselfClothing OthersChrist Telling The TruthPeople Unwilling

This is the disciple, who testifieth of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did,

Verse ConceptsCertaintyGospel, Confirmation OfGospel, Transmission OfScripture, Purpose OfWitness To The GospelWriting The New TestamentWitnessingtestifying

And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

Verse ConceptsFigures Of SpeechDifferent ThingsNo RoomWriting The New TestamentThe WorldThe Biblespacestories

So of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus spent with us,

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Qualifications ForLiving TogetherChrist With People On EarthGoing Out And Coming In

And they made selection of two, Joseph, named Barsabbas, whose other name was Justus, and Matthias.

Verse ConceptsTwo DisciplesLeadership Qualities

So, they drew lots [i.e., devices used for making random choices] and the lot [i.e., the choice] favored Matthias, so he was added to the other eleven apostles.

Verse ConceptsApostles, DescriptionGuidance, Receiving God'sCasting LotsElevenDispensations

And they were amazed and marveled, saying to each other, Behold, are not all these men who speak Galileans?

Verse ConceptsBaptism Of The Holy SpiritMarvellingGod Is Just

In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews,

Verse ConceptsLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureProselytes

And thus they all continued to be astounded and bewildered, and continued to say to each other, "What can this mean?"

Verse ConceptsAmazingConfusionPuzzlementMeaning

But Peter [responded by] standing up with the eleven [other] apostles and, lifting up his voice, began to speak. He said, "People of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, listen to what I am saying so you will understand this situation.

Verse ConceptsExplanationsCrowdsListeningPeter, The ApostleRevival, PersonalElevenPay Attention To People!uncertainty

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest's family.

Verse ConceptsGod Is Immanent

and set the other before them, and asked, "By what power, or in what name, have ye done this, sirs?"

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In NtPower, HumanIn The Name Of Christmagic

But after commanding them to go outside of the council, they conferred among each other,

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTDiscussionsGroups Sent Away

So, after Peter and John were released, they went [back to the other disciples] and reported everything the leading priests and elders [of the Jews] had said to them.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsPeople Set Free By PeopleTelling What People Saidelders

And laying them at the feet of the Apostles, while on the other hand they were distributing unto each one, in so far as any one had, need.

Verse ConceptsFeetThe Apostles In ActionFinancesMoney Blessingssales

And great fear and awe gripped the whole church, and all who heard about these things.

Verse ConceptsChristiansFear Of God, Examples OfThe Church UniversalThose Frightened Of God

And of other durst no man join himself to them: neverthelater, the people magnified them.

Verse ConceptsSuperstitionJoined To The ChurchWork Ethic

In fact, invalids were actually carried into the streets and laid on beds and mattresses, so that, when Peter passed, his shadow at anyrate might fall on one or other of them.

Verse ConceptsShadowsBedsUsing RoadsPeople Carrying Live PeopleHope And Healing

And this is, in effect, what God spoke [to him]: That his descendants would be aliens (strangers) in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

Verse ConceptsLove Between RelativesWronging Other PeopleFighting One Another

"How can I," the other answered, "unless some one will explain it to me?" and he invited Philip to get up and sit by his side.

Verse ConceptsTeachableness

And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?

So, Barnabas brought him to the [other] apostles and explained to them how he had seen the Lord [while] traveling on the road [to Damascus] and how he had boldly preached in the name of Jesus in that city.

Verse ConceptsBarnabasConfidence In God, Produces BoldnessImportunity, Towards PeopleAcceptance, Of One AnotherBoldness Examples OfSeeing The Risen ChristThe Gospel PreachedSpeaking In Christ's NameThe Apostles In ActionBoldnessdamascus

So Peter got up [and] accompanied them. [When he] arrived, they brought [him] up to the upstairs room, and all the widows came to him, weeping and showing [him] tunics and [other] clothing that Dorcas used to make [while she] was with them.

Verse ConceptsClothBereavement, Experience OfStairwaysDressMournersWidowsClothing The NeedyOuter GarmentsInner GarmentsActual WidowsUpper RoomsMourning The Death Of Otherssisterhood

Giving her his hand, Peter raised her up, and, calling in the widows and others of Christ's People, presented her to them alive.

Verse ConceptsAlive, Description OfBelieversPersonal ContactTaking By The HandActual WidowsOthers Summoning

For they heard them speaking in other languages and declaring the greatness of God.

Then Peter responded,

Verse ConceptsBaptism Of The Holy SpiritCharismatic IssuesSpecific Praising Of God

Now the apostles and the [other] brothers in Judea heard that the Gentiles had responded to the message of God.

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, Of The GospelThe Gentiles ConversionForeigners Saved By FaithThe Apostles In Action

For Barnabas was a good man [privately and publicly—his godly character benefited both himself and others] and he was full of the Holy Spirit and full of faith [in Jesus the Messiah, through whom believers have everlasting life]. And a great number of people were brought to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Growth InFaith, And Blessings Of Godequipping, spiritualChurch, IncreasingSpirit Filled MenAdditionsThe Holy Spirit, And SanctificationBeing Filled With The SpiritMany In The ChurchGood PeopleBelieving In GodOthers Believing In GodGodly ManA Good Man

now the very night preceding the day which Herod design'd for his execution, Peter bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the other guards secured the prison door; when an angel of

Verse ConceptsLeisure, And PastimesSleep, PhysicalGod Is ImmanentIron ChainsDuring One NightTwo Other ThingsTwo Other MenSleeping Peacefullytrailsjail

The other people told her, "You're out of your mind!" But she kept insisting that it was so. Then they said, "It's his angel."

Verse ConceptsGuardiansSuperstitionAngels Interacting With PeopleReckoned InsaneAngelic Guardianship

but he made a sign to them with his hand, to be silent: and related to them, how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. go, said he, and acquaint James and the other brethren with this affair. after which he departed and went to another place.

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianGod Freeing CaptivesTelling Of God

The others went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. There they went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats.

Verse ConceptsLord's Day, TheSabbath, In NtOn The Sabbath

So Paul rose, and motioning with his hand for silence, said, "Israelites, and you others who fear God, pay attention to me.

Verse ConceptsListeningevangelising

Brothers! Descendants of the house of Abraham, and those others among you who reverence God! It is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsReverence, And ObedienceChildren Of AbrahamThe Gospel Of SalvationRace

so that the people of the city were divided, some siding with the Jews, and others with the apostles.

Verse ConceptsDissensionDivisions Of OpinionIsrael HardenedThe Apostles In Action

But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.

Verse Conceptselders, in the churchBelieversVisitingDissensionDisputesMan AppointingThe Apostles In ActionResolving Conflict

So they set out, being accompanied for a short distance by some other members of the Church; and as they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told the whole story of the conversion of the Gentiles and inspired all the brethren with great joy.

Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofChristiansTravelThe Soul Winners JoyPeople ConvertedPeople Sending People

35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming the word of the Lord, with many others also.

Barnabas wished to take with them John, whose other name was Mark;

Verse ConceptsGoing Togetherflexibility

Among other places Paul went to Derbe and Lystra. At the latter place they found a disciple, named Timothy, whose mother was a Jewess who had become a believer in Christ, while his father was a Greek,

Verse ConceptsBelieversGrandmothers

And then Paul, Silas, Timothy [and perhaps others by now] traveled through the districts of Phrygia and Galatia [i.e., provinces of central Asia Minor] because [an inspired message from] the Holy Spirit would not permit them to proclaim the message in Asia [i.e., the westernmost province of Asia Minor].

Verse Conceptsevangelists, ministry ofInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Purpose OfProvincesThe Holy Spirit In The ChurchLed By The SpiritMissionaries

But [other] Jews became jealous and, recruiting certain ungodly riffraff, they gathered a mob and brought the city to near-riot conditions. They [even] attacked Jason's house and attempted to bring Paul and Silas before the [assembly of] people.

Verse ConceptsEnvyIntoleranceJealousyMarketsUnbelieversEnvy, Example OfUnbelief, Examples OfDisorder Among PeopleBringing People Out Of Other PlacesIsrael HardenedMaking Israel Jealous

When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These men have turned the world upside down [i.e., disrupted society by their preaching] and have [now] come here also [i.e., to do the same thing in our community].

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownPulling PeopleNot FindingTroubling Groups Of PeopleCauses of failure in

Jason has welcomed them and [now] all of them [i.e., Paul, Silas, Jason and the others] are going against the [Roman] laws of Caesar by saying that someone else is [our] king; that Jesus is [king]!"

Verse ConceptsdefianceKingship, DivineTreasonFalse Accusations, Examples OfWelcoming BelieversDifferent Personacting

So, he debated in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing people [i.e., Gentile proselytes], as well as in the open shopping market with others who met with him there.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofDevout MenReasonWitnessing, Approaches ToDisputesMarketplacesProselytesDiscussionsmarketing

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

Verse ConceptsBabblersevangelism, nature ofPhilosophyResurrection, Of The DeadFalse Teachers, Examples OfScoffersAmateursAmbiguityEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

(Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)

Verse ConceptsForeignersAmusementsIntelligenceLeisure, And PastimesPride, Examples OfSloth Examples OfCuriosity

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said: Men of Athens, I perceive that in all respects your reverence for demons excels that of other men.

Verse ConceptsAudiencesflexibility