Then he withdrew about a stone's throw, and knelt down and began to pray.

"Father," he said, "if it is thy pleasure, spare me this cup; only, not my will but thine be done."

But, when they had lit a fire in the center of the court-yard and had all sat down there, Peter seated himself in the middle of them.

Nor did Herod either; for he has sent him back to us. And, as a fact, he has not done anything deserving death;

"Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him."

If what you see is done while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

And we justly so, for we are only reaping our deserts, but this man has not done anything wrong.

The sun being eclipsed; and the Temple curtain was torn down the middle.

(This man had not assented to the decision and action of the Council.) He belonged to Ramah, a town in Judea, and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God.

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.

[But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping down he saw nothing but the linen wrappings, and he went away, wondering to himself at what had taken place.]

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum--he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; but they stayed there only a few days.

But he who acts up to the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be shown to have been done in dependence upon God.

And, on his way, he came to a Samaritan town called Shechem, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Jacob's Spring was there, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about mid-day.

For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people:

"Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?"

And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'

When this man heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

"Sir," said the officer, "come down before my child dies." And Jesus answered: "Go, your son is living."

And, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.

"I have no one, Sir," the afflicted man answered, "to put me into the Bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, some one else steps down before me."

And will come out--those who have done good rising to Life, and those who have lived evil lives rising for condemnation.

Jesus went up the hill, and sat down there with his disciples.

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the men, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,

And then Jesus took the loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, distributed them to those who were sitting down; and the same with the fish, giving the people as much as they wanted.

When evening fell, his disciples went down to the Sea,

For the Bread that God gives is that which comes down from Heaven, and gives Life to the world."

For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me;

Upon this the Jews began murmuring against Jesus for saying-- 'I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.'

"Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?"

The Bread that comes down from Heaven is such that whoever eats of it will never die.

I am the Living Bread that has come down from Heaven. If any one eats of this Bread, he will live for ever; and the Bread that I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the Life of the world."

That is the Bread which has come down from Heaven--not such as your ancestors ate, and yet died; he who takes this Bread for his food shall live for ever."

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

I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.

Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father--and I lay down my life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life- -to receive it again.

No one took it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This is the command which I received from my Father."

And seeing this, Jesus said: "I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?"

At this, Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' said to his fellow-disciples: "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."

Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees, and told them what he had done.

In consequence of this, Jesus did not go about publicly among the Jews any more, but left that neighborhood, and went into the country bordering on the Wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

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.

For I have given you an example, so that you may do just as I have done to you.

"Why cannot I follow you now, Master?" asked Peter. "I will lay down my life for you."

"Will you lay down your life for me?" replied Jesus. "In truth I tell you, the cock will not crow till you have disowned me three times.

No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

"Do you take me for a Jew?" was Pilate's answer. "It is your own nation and the Chief Priests who have given you up to me. What have you done?"

Stooping down, he saw the linen wrappings lying there, but did not go in.

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called 'The Twin,' was not with them when Jesus came;

It was in this way:--Simon Peter, Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, Zebediah's sons, and two other disciples of Jesus, were together, when Simon Peter said:

Down to that day on which he was taken up to Heaven, after he had, by the help of the Holy Spirit, given instructions to the Apostles whom he had chosen.

From his baptism by John down to that day on which he was taken from us--some one must be found to join us as a witness of his resurrection."

Either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians--yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own tongues of the great things that God has done."

A deep impression was made upon every one, and many wonders and signs were done at the hands of the Apostles.

This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called 'the Beautiful Gate,' to beg of those who went in.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honor to his Servant Jesus--him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.

They had Peter and John brought before them, and questioned them. "By what power," they asked, "Or in whose name have men like you done this thing?"

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,

Yet only to do what thou, by thy power and of thy own will, didst long ago destine to be done.

As Ananias heard these words, he fell down and expired; and every one who heard of it was appalled.

Instantly Sapphira fell down at Peter's feet and expired. On coming in, the young men found her dead; so they carried her out and buried her by her husband's side.

Indeed, we have heard him declare that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this Place, and change the customs handed down to us by Moses."

And so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also,

And, seeing an Israelite ill-treated, he defended him, and avenged the man, who was being wronged, by striking down the Egyptian.

I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.'

This Tabernacle, which was handed down to them, was brought into this country by our ancestors who accompanied Joshua (at the conquest of the nations that God drove out before their advance), and remained here until the time of David.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and there began to preach the Christ.

Meanwhile an angel of the Lord had said to Philip: "Set out on a journey southwards, along the road that runs down from Jerusalem to Gaza." (It is now deserted).

So he ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into the water--both Philip and the Treasurer--and Philip baptized him.

"Lord," exclaimed Ananias, "I have heard from many people about this man--how much harm he has done at Jerusalem to your People there.

But his disciples let him down by night through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.

But, when the Brethren found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and sent him on his way to Tarsus.

Peter, while traveling from place to place throughout the country, went down to visit the People of Christ living at Lydda.

But Peter sent everybody out of the room, and knelt down and prayed. Then, turning to the body, he said: "Tabitha! stand up." She opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.

On the next day, while these men were on their way, just as they were nearing the town, Peter went up on the housetop about mid-day to pray.

And saw that the heavens were open, and that something like a great sail was descending, let down by its four corners towards the earth.

Go down at once and do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them."

Peter went down to the men and said: "I am the man for whom you are looking. What is your reason for coming?"

"I was in the town of Jaffa," he said, "and was praying; and, while in a trance, I saw a vision. There was something like a great sail descending, let down by its four corners out of the heavens; and it came right down to me.

The chains dropped from his wrists, and then the angel said: "Put on your girdle and sandals." When Peter had done so, the angel added: "Throw your cloak round you and follow me."

And, when Herod had made further search for him and failed to find him, he closely questioned the Guard, and ordered them away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to stay at Caesarea.

Barnabas and Saul, sent on this mission, as they were, by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there sailed to Cyprus.

And, after carrying out everything written about him, they took Jesus down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb.

But the Jews incited the women of position who worshiped with them, and the leading men of the town, and started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their neighborhood.

And the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language: "The Gods have made themselves like men and have come down to us."

Presently, however, there came some Jews from Antioch, and Iconium who, after they had won over the people, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the town, thinking him to be dead.

But, when the disciples had gathered round him, he got up and went back into the town; the next day he went with Barnabas to Derbe.

After telling the Good News throughout that town, and making a number of converts, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

And, after telling the Message at Perga, went down to Attaleia.

But certain persons came down from Judea, and began to teach the Brethren that, unless they were circumcised, in accordance with the custom enjoined by Moses, they could not be saved.

For in every town, for generations past, there have been those who preach Moses, read as he is in the Synagogues every Sabbath."

So the bearers of this letter were sent on their way, and went down to Antioch. There they called a meeting of all the brethren,

Some time after this, Paul said to Barnabas: "Let us go back and visit the Brethren in every town in which we have told the Lord's Message, and see how they are prospering."

As they traveled from town to town, they gave the Brethren the decisions which had been reached by the Apostles and Officers of the Church at Jerusalem, for them to observe.

Passing through Mysia, they went down to Troas;