Just at that time some people came up to tell Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with that of their sacrifices.

So he called the manager to him and said, 'What is this that I am hearing about you? Balance your accounts and show how you are conducting my affairs, for you cannot be manager any longer.'

Now He took the Twelve aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

But they did not understand about these things, and this statement was an insoluble riddle to them; they did not even begin to grasp what He meant.

"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and love to be saluted with honor in public places, to be seated in the front seats in the synagogues, and to occupy the places of honor at banquets --

Now while some people were talking about the temple, how it was decorated with beautiful stones and votive-offerings, He said,

Then they asked Him, "Teacher, when will this be? And what is the sign that it is about to take place?"

So He said, "You must take care not to be misled about it! For many will come bearing the name of Messiah, and saying, 'I am He,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not go after them.

Now when the hour came, He took His place at the table, with the apostles about Him.

For I tell you, what has been written about me must be fulfilled: 'He was classed with the outlaws.' Yes, that saying about me has its fulfillment."

And He Himself withdrew about a stone's throw from them, and after kneeling down He continued to pray,

Those who were about Him saw what was about to take place, and said, "Lord, shall we use our swords now?"

About an hour later another man emphatically asserted, "He certainly was with Him, for he is a Galilean!"

Now Herod was very glad to see Jesus, for he had been wanting to see Him for a long time on account of what he had heard about Him; also he was hoping to see some spectacular performance done by Him.

It was already about noon, and darkness covered the whole country, and lasted until three o'clock,

And as they were being perplexed about this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly took their stand beside them.

On that very day, strange to say, two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

and were talking together about all these things that had taken place.

And He said to them, "What sort of things?" They answered Him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who in the sight of God and of all the people became a prophet mighty in deed and word,

Then He began with Moses and went through all the prophets and explained to them all the passages in the Scriptures about Himself.

Even while they were talking about these things, He took His stand among them Himself, [and said to them, "Peace to you!"]

So while they were still disbelieving for sheer joy and still wondering about it, He asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?"

Then He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you, that everything which is written about me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, had to be fulfilled."

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where He was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with Him; it was about four in the afternoon.

Philip sought out Nathaniel and said to him, "We have found the One about whom Moses wrote in the law and the One about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth."

and needed no testimony from anyone about them, for He well knew what was in human nature.

I most solemnly say to you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen what we are testifying to, yet you are all rejecting our testimony.

If you do not believe the earthly things I tell you, how can you believe the heavenly things, if I tell you about them?

Then a discussion came up between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

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

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terror-stricken.

Then the Jews began to grumble about His saying, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."

But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?

After this, Jesus went on moving about in Galilee; He would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

And there was a great deal of grumbling about Him among the crowds, some saying that He was a good man, and others that He was not, but was misleading the masses.

And yet, for fear of the Jews, nobody dared to speak in public about Him.

The Pharisees heard the people whispering this about Him, and so the high priests and Pharisees sent some officers to arrest Him.

The Jews then said to one another, "Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? He is not going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and going to teach the Greeks, is He?

But this mob, which knows nothing about the law, is bound to be accursed!"

I have much to say about you and much to condemn in you, but He who sent me is truthful, and I am telling the world only what I have learned from Him."

They did not understand that He was speaking to them about the Father.

Then again they asked the blind man, "What do you say about Him yourself, since He has made your eyes to see?" He answered, "He is a prophet."

The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see!

And many people came to Him and kept on saying, "John did not perform any wonder-works, but everything he ever said about this man was true."

But Jesus had spoken about his death. However, they supposed that He was referring to falling into a natural sleep.

Now Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem,

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing about this;

His disciples at the time did not understand this, but after Jesus was glorified, they remembered that this had been written about Him and that they had fulfilled it in His case.

The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, kept on talking about it.

Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going.

Isaiah said this, because he saw His glory; yes, he spoke about Him.

"And when He comes, He will bring conviction to worldly people about sin and uprightness and judgment;

about sin, because they do not believe in me;

about uprightness, because I go away to the Father so that you can no longer see me;

about judgment, because the evil ruler of this world has been condemned.

So they kept saying, "What does He mean by saying, 'a little while'? We do not know what He is talking about."

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?

"I have told you these things in allegories, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will plainly tell you about the Father.

Because it was cold, the slaves and attendants had made a charcoal fire and were standing about it warming themselves; so Peter too was standing among them warming himself.

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

Jesus answered him, "Do you ask me this on your own initiative, or have others suggested it to you about me?"

It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. Then Pilate said to the Jews, "There is your king!"

Now Nicodemus also, who had formerly come to Jesus at night, went and took a mixture of myrrh and aloes that weighed about one hundred pounds.

The rest of the disciples followed in the little boat, for they were not far from shore -- only about a hundred yards -- dragging in the net full of fish.

So when Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "But, Lord, what about him?"

I wrote my first volume, Theophilus, about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning

After He had suffered, He had shown Himself alive to them, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them through a period of forty days, and telling them the things about the kingdom of God.

At that time Peter got up among the brothers (there were about a hundred and twenty present) and said,

"Brothers, that Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered by the mouth of David in the former times about Judas who became the guide to those who arrested Jesus;

"Brothers, I may confidently say to you about the patriarch David, that he died and was buried, and that his grave is here among us to this very day.

So they accepted his message and were baptized, and about three thousand persons united with them on that day.

So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.

When all the people saw him walking about and praising God,

But many of those who heard their message believed, and the number of the men grew to about five thousand.

But to keep it from spreading farther among the people, let us severely threaten them not to say anything at all to anyone else about this person."

So they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all about the name of Jesus.

About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had taken place.

So they obeyed, and about the break of day they went into the temple square and began to teach. The high priest and his party arrived and called a meeting of the council and the whole senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have the men brought in.

then he said to them: "Fellow Israelites, take care as to what you are about to do to these men.

For in the days gone by Theudas appeared, claiming that he was a man of importance, and a considerable number of men, about four hundred, espoused his cause, but he was slain and all his followers were dispersed and as a party annihilated.

until another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, ascended the throne.

But when the people came to believe the good news proclaimed by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were constantly baptized.

Then Philip opened his mouth, and starting from this passage, he told him the good news about Jesus.

So it came about that Peter stayed in Joppa several days, at the house of a tanner named Simon.

One afternoon about three o'clock he had a vision and clearly saw an angel of God come to him and say, "Cornelius!"

The next day, while those men were traveling on and not far from the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray.

Then Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and all at once a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

how God consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and then He went about doing good and curing all who were overpowered by the devil, because God was with Him.

But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who on reaching Antioch began to speak to the Greeks too, and proceeded to tell them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

Now the news about them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and so they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

About that time Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, in order to do them violence.

Right now the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be so blind that you cannot see the sun for a time." And suddenly a dark mist fell upon him, and he kept groping about begging people to lead him by the hand.

and gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. And after that He gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

When they had carried out everything that had been written in the Scriptures about Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

So now we are bringing you the good news about the promise that was made to our forefathers,

though He did not fail to furnish evidences about Himself, in constantly showing His kindness to you, in sending you rain from heaven and fruit-producing seasons, in giving you food and happiness to your heart's content."

But the disciples formed a circle about him, and he got up and went back to town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.