Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

"In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.

You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

But I'm doing what the Father has commanded me, to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place."

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: "They hated me for no reason.'

But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'

But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your hearts.

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you'll cry and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You'll be deeply distressed, but your pain will turn into joy.

Now you are having pain. But I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

"I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

"I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your Name, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.

I ask not only on behalf of these men, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message,

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."

But you have a custom that I release one person for you at Passover. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"

At this, they shouted out again, "Not this fellow, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

Returning to his headquarters, he asked Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not answer him.

From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!"

The high priests responded, "We have no king but Caesar!" Then Pilate handed him over to be crucified, and they took Jesus away.

Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, "Don't write, "The King of the Jews,' but that this fellow said, "I am the King of the Jews.'"

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

The two of them were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and came to the tomb first.

Bending over to look inside, he noticed the linen cloths lying there, but didn't go in.

and that the handkerchief that had been on Jesus' head was not lying with the linen cloths but was rolled up in a separate place.

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

So the other disciples kept telling him, "We've seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I'll never believe!"

Then he told Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Take your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting, but believe."

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter told them, "I'm going fishing." They all told him, "We'll go with you, too." So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.

But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish. They were only about 200 cubits away from the shore.

Jesus told him, "Feed my sheep. "Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your belt and go wherever you liked. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don't want to go."

So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit a few days from now."

But you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

But others kept saying in derision, "They're drunk on sweet wine!"

But God raised him up and put an end to suffering of death, since it was impossible for him to be held by it,

After all, David did not go up to heaven, but he said, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

However, Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold, but I'll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus the Messiah from Nazareth, walk!"

But many of those who heard their message believed, and the men grew to number about 5,000.

you and all the people of Israel must understand that this man stands healthy before you because of the name of Jesus from Nazareth, whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead.

But to keep it from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them never again to speak to anyone in this name."

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God,

But then a man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold some property.

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

But at night the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and led them out. The angel told them,

"We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside."

But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men!

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

But some men who belonged to the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), as well as some Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and began to debate with Stephen.

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

"But I will punish the nation they serve,' said God, "and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.'

"But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first trip.

He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.

"But the man who was harming his neighbor pushed Moses away and said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us?

but our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and wished to return to Egypt.

but it was Solomon who built a house for him.

But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

But they shouted out loud, stopped listening, and together they all rushed at him,

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

But when Philip proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and about the name of Jesus the Messiah, men and women believed and were baptized.

But Peter told him, "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's free gift with money!

But Philip found himself at Azotus. As he was passing through that region, he kept proclaiming the good news in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

Meanwhile, the men who were traveling with Saul were standing speechless, for they heard the voice but didn't see anyone.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell how much evil this man has done to your saints in Jerusalem.

But the Lord told him, "Go, because he's my chosen instrument to carry my name to unbelievers, to their kings, and to the descendants of Israel.

But Saul grew more and more persuasive, and continued to confound the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this man was the Messiah.

but their plot became known to him. They were even watching the gates day and night to murder him,

but his disciples took him one night and let him down through the city wall by lowering him in a basket.

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they all were afraid of him because they wouldn't believe he was a disciple.

He kept talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews, but they were bent on murdering him.

But Peter said, "Absolutely not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean!"

But Peter made him get up, saying, "Stand up! I, too, am only a man."

He told them, "You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with unbelievers. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,

"They hung him on a tree and killed him, but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear

not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

But when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who emphasized circumcision disagreed with him.

But I replied, "Absolutely not, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth!'

Then I remembered what the Lord had said: "John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

But among them were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began proclaiming the Lord Jesus even to the Hellenistic Jews.

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was being offered by the assembly.

On recognizing Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that she didn't open the gate but ran back inside and announced that Peter was standing at the gate.

The other people told her, "You're out of your mind!" But she kept insisting that it was so. Then they said, "It's his angel."

Herod searched for him but didn't find him, so he questioned the guards and ordered them to be executed. Then he left Judea, went down to Caesarea, and stayed there for a while.

But the word of God continued to grow and spread.