and a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink"

At this point his disciples came up; they were surprised that he was talking to a woman, but none of them said, "What is it?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum;

When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, it came from your ancestors), and you will circumcise a man upon the sabbath.

Early in the morning he returned to the temple, the people all came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers ??but the sheep would not listen to them.

[vss 22-29 moved to follow 9:41] Then came the festival of Dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter,

If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

and many came to him, saying, "John did not perform any Sign, but all he ever said about this man was true."

But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."

Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."

Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead).

Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

And Jesus came across a young ass and seated himself on it; as it is written,

they came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and appealed to him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

I will say, 'Father, glorify thy name.'" Then came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

He came to Simon Peter. "Lord," said he, "you to wash my feet!"

for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God.

From the Father I came and I entered the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father."

for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.

Then Jesus, who knew everything that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

while Peter stood outside at the door. Then this other disciple, who was an acquaintance of the high priest, came out and spoke to the woman at the door, and brought Peter inside.

so Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"

"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

So out came Jesus, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said, "Here the man is!"

but when they came to Jesus and saw he was dead already, they did not break his legs;

only, one of the soldiers pricked his side with a lance, and out came blood and water in a moment.

Then Simon Peter came after him, and went inside the tomb; he noticed not only that the bandages were lying on the ground

Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called 'the Twin,' was not with them when Jesus came;

while the rest of the disciples came ashore in the punt (they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards), dragging their netful of fish.

when suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a violent blast of wind, which filled the whole house where they were seated.

When Ananias heard this, he fell down and expired. (Great awe came over all who heard of it.)

Instantly she fell down at their feet and expired. The younger men came in to find her dead; they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Great awe came over the whole church and over all who heard about this.

But as the attendants did not find them when they got to the prison, they came back to report,

However, someone came and reported to them, "Here are the very men you put in prison, standing in the temple and teaching the people!"

Now a famine came over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, attended with great misery, so that our ancestors could not find provender.

Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"

For unclean spirits came screaming and shrieking out of many who had been possessed, and many paralytics and lame people were healed.

who came down and prayed that the Samaritans might receive the holy Spirit.

As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

When they came up from the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch lost sight of him. He went on his way rejoicing,

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

But their plot came to the ears of Saul, and, although they kept watch on the gates day and night in order to make away with him,

Peter moved here and there among them all, and it happened that in the course of his tours he came down to visit the saints who stayed at Lydda.

He became very hungry and longed for some food. But as they were getting the meal ready, a trance came over him.

A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

So when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party fell foul of him.

"I was in the town of Joppa at prayer," he said, "and in a trance I saw a vision ??a vessel coming down like a huge sheet lowered from heaven by the four corners. It came down to me,

When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

During these days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch,

When they had passed the first guard and the second they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; they passed out, and after they had gone through one street, the angel immediately left him.

Then Peter came to his senses and said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

When he knocked at the door of the porch, a maidservant called Rhoda came to answer it;

Then they came through Pisidia to Pamphylia,

But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

He also came down to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timotheus, the son of a believing Jewess and a Greek father.

We then came to the Roman colony of Philippi, which is the foremost town of the district of Macedonia. In this town we spent some days.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

There he came across a Jew called Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, as Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul accosted them,

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

There came to Ephesus a Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria, a man of culture, strong in his knowledge of the scriptures.

It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples,

and after Paul laid his hands on them the holy Spirit came upon them, they spoke with 'tongues' and prophesied.

people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

This came to the ears of all the inhabitants of Ephesus, Jews as well as Greeks; awe fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

After passing through the districts of Macedonia and encouraging the people at length, he came to Greece,

When they came to him, he said, "You know quite well how I lived among you all the time ever since I set foot in Asia,

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet called Agabus came down from Judaea.

He came to us, took Paul's girdle and bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Here is the word of the holy Spirit: 'So shall the Jews bind the owner of this girdle at Jerusalem and hand him over to the Gentiles'."

Then the commander came up and seized him; he ordered him to be bound with a couple of chains, and asked "Who is he?" and "What has he done?"

As he gave permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people. A great hush came over them, and he addressed them as follows in Hebrew.

came to me and standing beside me said, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' The same moment I regained my sight and looked up at him.

This man had been seized by the Jews and was on the point of being murdered by them, when I came on them with the troops and rescued him, as I had ascertained that he was a Roman citizen.

Five days later down came the high priest Ananias with some elders and a barrister called Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

After a lapse of several years I came up with alms and offerings for my nation,

Some days had passed, when king Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

Well, the day after they came here along with me, I took my seat on the tribunal without any loss of time. I ordered the man to be brought in,

then, sailing over the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we came to Myra in Lycia.

When this had happened, the rest of the sick folk in the island also came and got cured;

where we came across some of the brotherhood, who invited us to stay a week with them. In this way we reached Rome.

As the local brothers had heard about us, they came out to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae, and when Paul saw them he thanked God and took courage.

So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

For two full years he remained in his private lodging, welcoming anyone who came to visit him;

Thus, then, sin came into the world by one man, and death came in by sin; and so death spread to all men, inasmuch as all men sinned.

I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.

Only, everyone must lead the lot assigned him by the Lord; he must go on living the life in which God's call came to him. (Such is the rule I lay down for all the churches).

For since death came by man, by man came also resurrection from the dead;

even when I ran short, during my stay with you, I was no encumbrance to anybody, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my wants. Thus I kept myself, as I intend to keep myself, from being a burden to you in any way.

instead of going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return I came back to Damascus.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.

Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed;

the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.