No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from My Father.

Martha, therefore, said to Jesus, "Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died;

She says to Him, "Yea, Lord; I have believed that Thou art the Christ, the Son of God, He Who was to come into the world."

Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing Him, fell at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died."

and He said, "Where have ye laid Him?" They say to Him, "Lord, come and see."

And some of them said, "Could not This Man, Who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not die?"

for the poor ye always have with you, but Me ye have not always."

The multitude, therefore, answered Him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ abideth forever; and how sayest Thou that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is This Son of Man?"

Jesus, therefore, said to them, "Yet a little while is the Light among you. Walk while ye have the Light, lest darkness overtake you; and he that walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.

While ye have the Light, believe on the Light, that ye may become sons of Light" These things spake Jesus, and, going away, He was hidden from them.

I have come a light into the world, that every one who believes on Me may not abide in the darkness.

Peter says to Him, "Thou shalt never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I wash you not, you have no part with Me."

When, therefore, He washed their feet, and took His garments, and reclined again, He said to them, "Do ye know what I have done to you?

By this shall all know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another."

In My Father's house are many abiding-places; otherwise, I would have told you; because I am going to prepare a place for you.

If ye knew Me, ye would know My Father also; from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him."

"These things have I spoken to you, while abiding with you.

Ye heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If ye loved Me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; because the Father is greater than I.

And now I have told you before it comes to pass; that, when it comes to pass, ye may believe.

Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love.

These things have I spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

No longer do I call you slaves; because the slave knows not what his lord is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father I made known to you.

"Had I not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Had I not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin; but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father;

"These things have I spoken to you, that ye be not made to stumble.

And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor Me.

But these things I have spoken to you, that, when their hour shall come, ye may remember them, that I told you. And these things I said not to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

But, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

"I have yet many things to say to you; but ye are not able to hear them now.

And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one takes away from you.

"These things have I spoken to you in proverbs. An hour is coming, when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

for the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world; again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

These things have I spoken to you, that in Me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

I manifested Thy name to the men whom Thou gavest Me out of the world. Thine they were; and Thou gavest them to Me; and they have kept Thy word.

Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou gavest Me are from Thee;

because the words which Thou gavest Me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from Thee, and believed that Thou didst send Me.

But now I come to Thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy made full in themselves.

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

And the glory which Thou hast given to Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one:

Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble together; and in secret I spake nothing.

Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard, what I spake to them; behold, they know the things which I said."

They answered and said to him, "If this Man were not an evil-doer, we would not have delivered Him up to you."

Pilate, therefore, said to Him, "Art Thou, then, a King?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a King. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears My voice."

But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one at the passover. Do ye wish, therefore, that I release to you the King of the Jews?"

The Jews, therefore, answered him, "We have a law, and according to the law He ought to die, because He made Himself God's Son."

Pilate, therefore, says to Him, "Dost Thou not speak to me? Knowest Thou not that I have authority to release Thee, and have authority to crucify Thee?"

Jesus answered him, "You would have no authority against Me, unless it were given to you from above; on this account, he who delivered Me up to you has greater sin."

They, therefore, cried out, "Away with Him! away with Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate says to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The high priests answered, We have no king but Caesar!"

Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

After these things Jesus, knowing that all things have now been finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, "I thirst."

Jesus saith to her, "Touch Me not; for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren, and say to them, "I ascend to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God."

Mary Magdalene comes, proclaiming to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that He spake these things to her.

The other disciples, therefore, said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and press my hand into His side, I will not believe."

Jesus saith to him, "Because you have seen Me, you believe: happy are those who did not see, and yet believed."

Many other signs, therefore, did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which have not been written in this book;

but these have been written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye may have life in His name.

Jesus, therefore, saith to them, "Little children, have ye anything to eat?" They answered Him, "No."

And others, mocking, said, "They have been filled with new wine!"

But Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, this I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, walk."

And, having heard this, they entered at dawn, into the temple, and were teaching. And the high priest, having come, and those with him, called together the Sanhedrin, and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison-house to have them brought.

saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in This Name; and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching! and intend to bring upon us the blood of This Man!"

Then they suborned men, who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God."

for we have heard him say, that This Jesus, the Nazarene, will overthrow this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."

And the Lord said to him, 'Loose the sandals from your feet; for the place on which you have been standing is holy ground.

You have no part nor lot in this matter; for your heart is not right before God.

And Simon answered and said, "Pray ye to the Lord in my behalf, that none of the things which ye have spoken may come upon me."

But, arising, go down, and journey with them, nothing doubting; because I have sent them."

At once, therefore, I sent to you; and you did well, in coming. Now, therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things that have been commanded you by the Lord."

And, while they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate now to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

that God hath fulfilled this for our children, having raised up Jesus; as it has been written in the second Psalm, 'Thou art My Son! To-day have I begotten Thee!'

for so hath the Lord commanded us, 'I have set Thee for a Light of the gentiles, that Thou mayest be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth.'"

But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; and, having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, they drew him outside the city, supposing him to have died.

men who have given up their souls in behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas; themselves also reporting the same things to you by word of mouth.

And, when she was immersed, and her household, she besought us, saying, "If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, abide there." And she constrained us.

And the jailer reported these words to Paul, "The magistrates have sent that ye be released; now, therefore, going forth, go on your way in peace."

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His offspring.'

because I am with you, and no one shall set on you to harm you; because I have much people in this city.

Now, when these things were ended, Paul purposed in his spirit, after passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem; saying, "After I have been there, I must see Rome also."

gathering whom together, and the workmen of like occupation, be said, "Men, ye know that out of this business we have our wealth.

If, indeed, therefore, Demetrius and the artisans with him have a matter against any one, court-days are held, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

And they, hearing it, were glorifying God, and said to him, "You observe, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews, of those who have believed; and they are all zealous for the law.

What is it, therefore? They will certainly hear that you have come.

Do this, therefore, which we say to you: we have four men who have a vow on them;

taking these to yourself, be purified with them, and incur expense for them, that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing in those things of which they have been instructed concerning you; but that you yourself also are walking orderly, keeping the law.

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we sent to them, having given judgment, that they should keep themselves from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from fornication."

And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Arising, go into Damascus, and there it shall be told you concerning all things which have been arranged for you to do.'

because you shall be a witness for Him, to all men, of what you have seen, and heard.

And the chief captain answered, "I, for a great sum, acquired this citizenship." And Paul said, "But I have been born a citizen."

And Paul, looking intently on the Sanhedrin, said, "Brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day."

And the chief captain, taking hold of his hand, and going aside privately, was asking him, "What is it that you have to tell me?"

The chief captain, therefore, dismissed the young man, charging him, "Tell no one that you have shown these things to me,"

And Paul answered, the governor having beckoned to him to speak: "Knowing that you, for many years, have been a judge to this nation, cheerfully do I make defense as to the things concerning myself;

But I confess this to you, that, according to the Way which they call 'heresy,' so I worship the God of our fathers, believing all those things, which are according to the law, and which have been written in the prophets;

In this I myself also am striving always to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

who ought to be present before you and accuse me, if they have anything against me.

giving orders to the centurion that he should be held, and should have indulgence, and to prevent none of his friends from ministering to him.