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Everything has been committed to me by my Father; nor does any one know who the Son is, except the Father, or who the Father is, except the Son and those to whom the Son may choose to reveal him."

Some of whom they will persecute and kill, in order that the 'blood' of all the prophets 'that has been spilt' since the creation of the world may be exacted from this generation--

This you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

while one who does not know his master's wishes, but acts so as to deserve a flogging, will receive but few. From every one to whom much has been given much will be expected, and from the man to whom much has been entrusted the more will be demanded.

But this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who has been kept in bondage by Satan for now eighteen years, ought not she to have been released from her bondage on the Sabbath?"

"When you are invited by any one to a wedding banquet, do not seat yourself in the best place, for fear that some one of higher rank should have been invited by your host;

And sent his servant, when it was time for the dinner, to say to those who had been invited 'Come, for everything is now ready.'

Presently the servant said 'Sir, your order has been carried out, and still there is room.'

'No,' he said to his father, 'look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends.

Near his gateway there had been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,

It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.

And so with you--when you have done all that you have been told, still say 'We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.'"

On his return, after having been appointed King, he directed that the servants to whom he had given his money should be summoned, so that he might learn what amount of trade they had done.

"Would that you had known, while yet there was time--even you--the things that make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your sight.

When Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly pleased, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, having heard a great deal about him; and he was hoping to see some sign given by him.

And Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, for before that there had been ill-will between them.

(Barabbas was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had broken out in the city and for murder.)

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, as they demanded, and gave Jesus up to be dealt with as they pleased.

All the friends of Jesus had been standing at a distance, with the women who accompanied him from Galilee, watching all this.

And, when he had taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet, and laid him in a tomb cut out of stone, in which no one had yet been buried.

They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb;

"This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.'

When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.

Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat."

But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.

And after this they were glad to take him into the boat; and the boat at once arrived off the shore, for which they had been making.

The people who remained on the further side of the Sea had seen that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone into it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

"What! Have you been led astray too?" the Pharisees replied.

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

"Does our Law pass judgment on a man without first giving him a hearing, and finding out what he has been doing?"

"Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus.

"We are descendants of Abraham," was their answer, "and have never yet been in slavery to any one. What do you mean by saying 'you will be set free'?"

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

They took the man, who had been blind, to the Pharisees.

The Jews, however, refused to believe that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called his parents and questioned them.

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

If this man had not been from God, he could not have done anything at all."

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

When Jesus reached the place, he found that Lazarus had been four days in the tomb already.

"Master," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she threw herself at his feet. "Master," she exclaimed, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

The dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in a winding- sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. "Set him free," said Jesus, "and let him go."

His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

The crowd of bystanders, who heard the sound, said that it was thundering. Others said: "An angel has been speaking to him."

In fulfillment of the words of the Prophet Isaiah, where he says--'Lord, who has believed our teaching? And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?'

When he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments and taken his place, he spoke to them again. "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?" he asked.

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: "Now the Son of Man has been exalted, and God has been exalted through him;

Although your hearts are full of sorrow at all that I have been saying to you.

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

"If he had not been a criminal, we should not have given him up to you," they answered.

"My kingly power," replied Jesus, "is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the Jews; but my kingly power is not from the world."

Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;

At the place where Jesus had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a newly-made tomb in which no one had ever been laid.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been removed.

And the cloth which had been upon Jesus' head, not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up on one side, separately.

And perceived two angels clothed in white sitting there, where the body of Jesus had been lying, one where the head and the other where the feet had been.

In the evening of the same day--the first day of the week-- after the doors of the room, in which the disciples were, had been shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said: "Peace be with you";

A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas with them. After the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood among them, and said: "Peace be with you."

So Simon Peter got into the boat and hauled the net ashore full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and yet, although there were so many, the net had not been torn.

And said: "Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up into the heavens? This very Jesus, who has been taken from you into the heavens, will come in the very way in which you have seen him go into the heavens."

Therefore, from among the men who have been with us all the time that Jesus, our Master, went in and out among us--

And referred to the resurrection of the Christ when he said that 'he had not been abandoned to the Place of Death, nor had his body undergone corruption.'

And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear.

One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o'clock Prayers, a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by.

And it is by faith in the Name of Jesus, that this man, whom you all see and know, has--by his Name--been made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you all.

Since we are on our trial to-day for a kind act done to a helpless man, and are asked in what way the man here before you has been cured,

But, when they looked at the man who had been healed, standing there with them, they had nothing to say.

"What are we to do to these men?" they asked one another. "That a remarkable sign has been given through them is obvious to every one living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

After they had been set at liberty, the Apostles went to their friends and told them what the Chief Priests and the Councillors had said to them.

There was staying in the city a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic there and mystifying the Samaritan people, giving himself out to be some great Being.

And they paid attention to him because they had for a long time been mystified by his magic arts.

(As yet the Spirit had not descended upon any of them; they had only been baptized into the Faith of the Lord Jesus).

So Philip set out on a journey; and on his way he came upon an official of high rank, in the service of Candace, Queen of the Abyssinians. He was her treasurer, and had been to Jerusalem to worship,

So Ananias went, entered the house, and, placing his hands on Saul, said: "Saul, my Brother, I have been sent by the Lord--by Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here--so that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."