A member of the council asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the coming age eternal life."

But that the dead are raised to life, even Moses indicated in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

"Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and love to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets??47 men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will get all the heavier sentence!"

For they all gave from what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in all she had to live on."

And he took a loaf of bread and thanked God, and broke it in pieces, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

Jesus said to him, "You can go home. Your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and went home.

While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live.

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

yet you refuse to come to me for life.

but I know well that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

I tell you, whoever believes already possesses eternal life.

I am the bread that gives life.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Simon Peter answered, "To whom can we go, sir? You have a message of eternal life,

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd will give his life for his sheep.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I am giving my life for my sheep.

This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my life, but giving it to take it back again.

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

And I know his orders mean eternal life. So whatever I say, I say only as the Father has told me."

I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

Jesus answered, "You will lay down your life for me? I tell you, before a cock crows, you will disown me thrice over!

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

"If you really love me, you will observe my commands.

In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too.

It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."

Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what he has commanded me to do. Come, let us go away.

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love.

If you keep my commands you will retain my love, just as I have observed the Father's commands and retain his love.

The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends.

"What I command you to do is to love one another.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

for the Father loves you himself because you love me and believe that I have come from the Father.

just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" each one giving him a blow.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

Again Jesus said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, are you devoted to me?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then be a shepherd to my sheep!"

Jesus said to him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because the third time Jesus asked him if he loved him, and he answered, "Master, you know everything, you can see that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep!

"For in the Book of Psalms it is written, 'Let his estate be desolate, with no one to live on it,' and 'Let someone else take his position.'

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices, And my body will still live in hope.

You have made the ways of life known to me, And you will fill me with joy in your presence.'

and killed the very source of life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can testify.

"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

So he left the country of the Chaldeans and went to live in Haran, and from there after the death of his father, God caused him to move into this country where you now live.

He took advantage of our people and oppressed our forefathers, making them abandon their infant children, so that they should not live.

It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live.

But the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,

His sentence ended in his humiliation. Who will tell the story of his posterity? For his life is perished from the earth."

But God raised him to life on the third day and caused him to be plainly seen,

When they heard this, they made no further objection, but they gave honor to God, and said, "Then God has given even the heathen repentance and the hope of life!"

that God has fulfilled to us, their children, the promise that he made to our forefathers, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the second psalm, You are my Son! Today I have become your Father!'

but he whom God raised to life did not undergo it.

Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen.

When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,

God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands,

nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.

From one forefather he has created every nation of mankind, and made them live all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,

For it is through union with him that we live and move and exist, as some of your poets have said, " 'For we are also his offspring.'

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

They have been told that you teach all Jews who live among the heathen to turn away from Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children nor to observe the old customs.

They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,