"Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath.

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

"Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

"Rabbi, this woman has been found in the very act of adultery.

"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

"and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."

"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

"but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself."

"This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

"When he has brought all his own sheep, he walks before them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"

"My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

This he said, then told them, "Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him."

"Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well," replied the disciples.

"I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live.

"Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have prevented this man also from dying?"

"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."

"Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

He who rejects me, and does not receive my words, has indeed a judge. The message which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the Last Day,

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So whatever I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and straightway will he glorify him.

"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him."

"He has nothing in me, but in his coming the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do just as the Father commanded. Rise, let us be going!"

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

"but sorrow has filled your hearts because I have told you these things.

because the Prince of this world has been judged.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he will take of what is mine and make it known to you.

A woman in labor has grief because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the babe she no longer remembers her anguish, because of joy that a child has been born into the world.

since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

They know now that whatever thou hast given me was from thee;

"I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine,

I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

As thou hast sent me into the world, even so I also have sent them into the world.

that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.

And I have declared??nd will declare??hy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

(The slave's name was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter. "Put up your sword in its sheath. the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"

"You would have no power over me," answered Jesus, "unless it had been given you from above. For this reason he who has betrayed me to you has the greater sin."

And he who saw it has borne testimony, and his testimony is trustworthy, and he knows that he is telling the truth in order that you may believe.

Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."

He answered. "It is not for you to know times and occasions which the Father has fixed in his own authority;

and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

and they prayed, saying. "Thou, O Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show clearly which of these two men thou hast chosen to fill the place

we all hear these men telling in our own tongue what great things God has done."

but God has raised him to life, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for death to hold him.

"Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, Thou wilt fill me with gladness in thy presence.

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

Since he is by the mighty hand of God exalted, and has received from his Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this which you now see and hear.

"Therefore let the whole House of Israel know assuredly that Gods has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you have crucified."

"The God of Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go;

"The Pioneer of Life you put to death. But God has raised him from the dead, and we are witnesses of that fact.

"And his name, on the ground of faith in his name, has made strong this man, whom you now see and know; yes, the faith that is through him has made this man sound and strong again, in the presence of you all.

"But God has thus fulfilled what he foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

"Rulers and elders of the people, if we are being examined today concerning a benefit conferred upon a cripple, as to how has this man been cured,

"For he is the Stone, cast aside by you builders, which has become the head stone of the corner.

"What," said they, "shall we do with these men? For it is well known throughout Jerusalem that a notable miracle has been performed by them, and we cannot deny it.

"In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel??28 "to do all that thy power and thy will had predetermined should be done.

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

"We must obey God rather than man. The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom you slew by hanging him on a tree.

"Him God has exalted at his right hand as Prince and Saviour, to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.

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

"Said they to Aaron. "Make Gods for us who shall march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.

He is now praying, and has seen a man named Ananias enter and lay his hands on him to restore his sight."

"In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name."

"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."

And so Ananias went and entered into the house, and laying his hands on him, said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, has sent me that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

"So I sent for you without delay, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to speak."

"'Not so, my Lord' said I, 'for nothing common or unclean has ever gone into my mouth.'

"But for the second time a voice spoke from the sky, 'What God has cleansed, you must not call common.'

On hearing this they held their peace and glorified God, saying, "Forsooth then, to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life."

Peter, coming to himself, said, "Now I know for a certainty that the Lord has sent his angel and released me from the hand of Herod, and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

"Of this man's descendants God has brought unto Israel, according to his promise, a Savior, Jesus;

"Brothers, sons of Abraham's race, and all among you who reverence God, to us has the word of this salvation been sent.

"And as to his having raised him from among the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has said this, "I will give thee the holy and sure blessings of David.

"Brothers, listen to me. Symeon has told how God first looked graciously upon the Gentiles, to take out from among them a people to be called by his name.

"Says the Lord, who has been making this known from the beginning of the world.

"For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town where he is read aloud, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the synagogues."

"For it has seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

"that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

"Jason has received them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."