Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad. He had long been wanting to see him, because he had heard so much about him, and was hoping to see some miracles performed by him.

Then Herod and his soldiers set him at naught, and mocked him, and throwing about him a gorgeous robe, sent him back to Pilate.

It was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

On that same day two of his disciples were walking to Emmaus, a village about seven miles from Jerusalem.

They were talking together about all these events,

After gazing intently on Jesus as he walked about, he said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets??esus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."

Now there were six stone water-jars standing there, according to the Jewish rites of purification, each holding about twenty gallons.

But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.

It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."

"For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.

After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the high priest and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."

So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.

Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death, but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep.

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away;

"Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,

Then said Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him,

For this reason, too, the crowd came to meet him, because they had heard about this sign which he had done.

So Simon Peter beckoned to him, saying, "Ask who it is about whom he is speaking."

"But I have told you these things, that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them, myself. I did not, however, speak of these things at first, because I was with you.

So they kept asking. "What does that 'little while' mean of which he speaks? We do not know what he is talking about."

Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and said: "Are you questioning one another about my saying, 'A little while and you shall behold me no more, and again a little while you shall see me'?

"I have told you these things in figures; but the time is coming when I shall no longer speak in figures, but will tell you about the Father in plain words.

Now the slaves and the attendants were standing and warming themselves about a charcoal fire, which they had made because it was cold; and Peter also stood with them, and was warming himself.

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

Jesus answered, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?"

and the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and threw a purple cloak about him, and kept marching up to him,

And it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

and the napkin which had been about his head not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up in it's own place.

Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" On hearing that it was the Lord, Simon Peter girt his fisher's coat about him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the water.

The rest of the disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore??nly about a hundred yards??ragging in the net full of fish.

On catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, what about him?"

So, when they came together, they began to ask him, "Master, are you at this time about to restore the kingdom of Israel?"

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, about a Sabbath Day's journey distant.

It was during these days that Peter stood up among the brothers??he whole number of persons present was about one hundred and twenty??nd said:

Then Peter, with the Eleven, stood up and addresses them in a loud voice. "Men of Judea and dwellers in Jerusalem, have no doubt about this matter, but listen to what I say.

Then those who welcomed his message were baptized, and in that day about three thousand souls were added to them;

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he kept asking them for alms;

But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

"But that the matter may spread no further among the people, let us threaten them not to speak to any one hereafter about this name."

but for our part, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."

About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened;

"We strictly forbade you, did we not, to teach about this Name, and here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

He said: "Men of Israel, take care what you are about to do with these men.

"Years ago Theudas arose, claiming to be somebody, and was joined by about four hundred men. He was killed, and all of his followers dispersed and annihilated.

They gave in to him; and called the apostles in, and after flogging them, released them, with instructions not to speak about the name of Jesus.

But when they believed Philip, who was preaching glad tidings about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

"But, Lord," said Ananias, "I have heard from many about that man, and how much evil he did to the saints at Jerusalem!

About three o'clock one afternoon he had a vision, and distinctly saw an angel of God enter his house and say to him, "Cornelius."

The next day, while they were still on their way and were approaching the town, about noon, Peter went up to the housetop to pray.

"how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about everywhere doing good, and curing all who were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.

One of them, who was Agabus, rose up, and being instructed by the Spirit, predicted that a great famine was about to come upon the whole inhabited earth. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)

Now, at about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands to ill-treat certain members of the church;

Now when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that very night, while Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison,

"Gird yourself," said the angel, "and put on your sandals." He did so. Then he said unto him, "Throw your cloak about you, and follow me."

"The Lord's hand is now upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season." Instantly there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and groping about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.

"For about forty years he bore with them in the desert,

"and when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years.

And he sprang up and began to walk about. Then the crowds, when they saw what Paul had done, shouted in the Lycaonian tongue, saying, "The gods are come down to us in human form."

and the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance to the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and along with the crowds was about to offer sacrifices.

Now when dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, the brethren appointed Paul and Barnabas, and certain others, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.

The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

Paul was about to open his mouth, when Gallio said to the Jews. "If it had been some misdemeanor or wicked villainy, it would have been within reason for me to listen to you Jews;

but as these are merely questions about words and names and your own law, you yourselves must see to it. I am not willing to be a judge of these matters."

He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

They were in all about twelve men.

Then Paul went into the synagogue, and there continued to preach fearlessly for about three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

but when they saw that he was a Jew they all, with one voice, for about two hours, shouted,

Just as he was about to set sail for Syria, the Jews laid a plot against him, and he determined to return through Macedonia.

And now I know that not one of you among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see my face again.

And they all began, with loud lamentations, to throw their arms about his neck, and to kiss him lovingly, again and again,

"Now what they have been told about you, again and again, is that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles, to forsake Moses, and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.

"We have four men here under a vow; associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they may have their heads shaved; then every one will know that there is no truth in the rumors that they have heard about you; but that you yourself walk orderly obeying the law.

Just as he was about to be taken into the barracks, Paul said to the tribune, "May I speak to you?"

"But when, on my journey, I was nearing Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light from heaven shone round about me.

"And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' and the Lord said to me, 'Rise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that you are destined to do.'

Then those who were about to scourge him, immediately left him. And the tribune too, was afraid, when he learned that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound.

"This man Paul had been seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came upon them with the troops, and rescued him, as I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

"Here I learned that he was accused about questions of their law, but was not charged with anything worthy of death or imprisonment.

And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."

"The chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, when I was at Jerusalem, demanding a sentence against him.

but they kept quarreling with him about certain matters connected with their own religion, and about one Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed over and over was alive.

"King Agrippa," said Festus, "and all men who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem, and here also, sent to me, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

"Now I have nothing very definite to tell our sovereign about him. So I have brought the man before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, in order that, after examination, I may have something to write.

We embarked in a ship of Adramyttium which was about to sail to the ports of the province of Asia, and put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, accompanied us.