"I am the vine; you [are] the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him--this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.

If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and dries up, and they gather them and throw [them] into the fire, and they are burned.

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

I still have many [things] to say to you, but you are not able to bear [them] now.

Jesus knew that they were wanting to ask him, and he said to them, "Are you deliberating with one another about this--that I said, 'A little [while], and you will not see me, and again a little [while] and you will see me'?

So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.

His disciples said, "Behold, now you are speaking {plainly} and are telling [us] no figurative saying!

Now they understand that all [the things] that you have given me are from you,

I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours,

and all my [things] are yours, and your [things] [are] mine, and I have been glorified in them.

And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we [are].

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

that they all may be one, just as you, Father, [are] in me and I [am] in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me.

And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we [are] one--

Then Jesus, [because he] knew all the things that were coming upon him, went out and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"

Then he asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."

Jesus replied, "I said to you that I am [he]! So if you are looking for me, let these [men] go,"

Then the female slave [who was] the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You are not also [one] of the disciples of this man, [are you]?" He said, "I am not!"

Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them! Behold, these [people] know what I said."

Now Simon Peter was standing there and warming himself. So they said to him, "You are not also [one] of his disciples, [are you]?" He denied [it] and said, "I am not!"

Then Pilate entered again into the governor's residence and summoned Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Then Pilate said to him, "So then you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this [reason] I was born, and for this reason I have come into the world: in order that I can testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

and he entered into the governor's residence again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not give him an answer.

From this [point on] Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"

And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him!"

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She thought that it was the gardener, [and] said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him."

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If you retain [the sins] of any, they are retained."

Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, have you believed? Blessed [are] those who have not seen and have believed."

Now Jesus also performed many other signs in the presence of the disciples which are not recorded in this book,

but these [things] are recorded in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that [by] believing you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing!" They said to him, "We also are coming with you." They went out and got into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing.

Jesus said to them, "Come, eat breakfast!" But none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" [because they] knew that it was the Lord.

Now there are also many other [things] that Jesus did, which--if they were written down one after the other--I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

So [when] they had come together, they began asking him, saying, "Lord, [is it] at this time you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?"

And they were astounded and astonished, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

But others jeered [and] said, "They are full of sweet new wine!"

For these [men] are not drunk, as you assume, because it is the third hour of the day.

This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those [who are] far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself."

And [when he] saw [it], Peter replied to the people, "Men [and] Israelites, why are you astonished at this? Or why are you staring at us, as [if] by our own power or godliness we have made him walk?

And you killed the originator of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses!

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

if we are being examined today concerning a good deed [done to] a sick man--by what [means] this man was healed--

saying, "What should we do with these men? For that a remarkable sign has taken place through them [is] evident to all those who live [in] Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny [it]!

For we are not able to refrain from speaking about [the things] that we have seen and heard."

And [when they] heard [it], they lifted [their] voices with one mind to God and said, "Master, you [are] the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,

[as] you extend your hand to heal and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus."

So Peter [said] to her, "How [is it] that it was agreed by you [two] to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried your husband [are] at the door, and they will carry you out!"

But someone came [and] reported to them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple [courts] and teaching the people!"

saying, "{We strictly commanded} you not to teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching! And you are intending to bring upon us the blood of this man!"

And we are witnesses of these things, and [so is] the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."

And he said to them, "Men [and] Israelites, take care for yourselves what you are about to do to these men!

And on the following day, he made an appearance to them [while they] were fighting and was attempting to reconcile them in peace, saying, 'Men [and] brothers, why are you doing wrong to one another?'

And the Lord said to him, 'Untie the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.

{I have certainly seen} the mistreatment of my people [who are] in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'

For I see you are in {a state of bitter envy} and {bound by unrighteousness}."

So Philip ran up to [it] [and] heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, "So then, do you understand what you are reading?"

And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

So he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he [said], "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting!

And [while] Peter was reflecting about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, men are looking for you.

So Peter went down to the men [and] said, "Behold, I am [he] whom you are looking for! What [is] the reason for which you have come?"

Therefore I sent for you at once, and you {were kind enough to come}. So now we all are present before God to hear all the things that have been commanded to you by the Lord."

And we [are] witnesses of all [the things] that he did both in the land of the Judeans and in Jerusalem, whom they also executed [by] hanging [him] on a tree.

But they said to her, "You are out of your mind!" But she kept insisting it was so. And they kept saying, "It is his angel!"

[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, [because they] did not recognize this one, and the voices of the prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled [them] [by] condemning [him].

who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem--who are now his witnesses to the people.

this [promise] God has fulfilled to our children [by] raising Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son; today I have fathered you.'

Both Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly [and] said, "It was necessary [that] the word of God be spoken first to you, since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life! Behold, we are turning to the Gentiles!

and saying, "Men, why are you doing these [things]? We also are men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news [that] you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things [that are] in them--

who in generations that are past permitted all the nations to go their [own] ways.

And some men came down from Judea [and] began teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom [prescribed] by Moses, you cannot be saved."

So now why are you putting God to the test [by] placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

But we believe [we] will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in {the same} way those also [are]."

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles {who are called by my name}, says the Lord, who makes these [things]

writing [this letter] {to be delivered by them}: The apostles and the elders, brothers. To the brothers [who are] from among the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Greetings!

And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come then,[let us] return [and] visit the brothers in every town in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, [to see] how they are [doing]."

She followed Paul and us [and] was crying out, saying, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!"

And [when they] had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,

and are proclaiming customs that are not permitted for us to accept or to practice, [because we] are Romans!"

But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, "Do no harm to yourself, for we are all here!"

But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public without due process--men who are Roman citizens--[and] threw [us] into prison, and now they are wanting to release us secretly? Certainly not! Rather let them come themselves [and] bring us out!"

whom Jason has entertained as guests! And these [people] [are] all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus!"

For you are bringing some astonishing things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what {these things mean}."

So Paul stood there in the middle of the Areopagus [and] said, "Men of Athens, I see you [are] very religious {in every respect}.

for in him we live and move and exist, as even some of {your own} poets have said: 'For we also are {his} offspring.'

Therefore, [because we] are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.

because I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, because many people are mine in this city."

But the evil spirit answered [and] said to them, "Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with, but who are you?"

and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this man Paul has persuaded [and] turned away a large crowd [by] saying that the [gods] made by hands are not gods.

Therefore [because] these [things] are undeniable, it is necessary [that] you be quiet and do nothing rash!

For you have brought these men [here] [who are] neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.

If then Demetrius and the craftsmen [who are] with him have a complaint against anyone, the court days are observed and there are proconsuls--let them bring charges against one another!

For indeed we are in danger of being accused of rioting concerning today, [since there] is no cause in relation to which we will be able to give an account concerning this disorderly gathering!" And [when he] had said these [things], he dismissed the assembly.

"And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build [you] up and to give [you] the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

I have shown you [with respect to] all [things] that [by] working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."