And I know that His commandment is life eternal. What things, therefore, I speak, even as My Father hath told Me, so I speak."

for I gave you an example, that, as I did to you, ye also should do.

He, leaning back as he was on the breast of Jesus, says to Him, "Lord, who is it?"

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek Me; and, as I said to the Jews, 'Whither I go ye cannot come;' so now I say to you.

A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; even as I loved you, that ye love one another.

And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.

and I will ask of the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, that He may be with you forever;

"Peace I leave for you; My own peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled; neither let it be fearful.

but, that the world may know that I love the Father, and, as the Father commanded Me, so I do, Arise, let us go hence."

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, unless ye abide in Me.

Unless one abides in Me, he was cast forth as a branch, and withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done to you.

Even as the Father loved Me, I also loved you; abide in My love.

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.

This is My commandment, that ye love one another, even as I loved you.

Ye did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you.

Jesus knew that they wished to ask Him, and He said to them, "Do ye inquire among yourselves about this that I said, 'A little while, and ye behold Me not, and again a little while, and ye will see Me!'

And in that day ye will ask nothing of Me: verily, verily, I say to you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, He will give it you in My name.

Hitherto ye asked nothing in My name; ask, and ye will receive, that your joy may be made full.

In that day ye shall ask in My name: and I say not to you, that I will ask the Father for you;

now we know that Thou knowest all things; and hast no need that any one should ask Thee: by this we believe that Thou didst come forth from God."

even as Thou gavest Him authority over all flesh, that to all Whom Thou hast given Him He should give eternal life.

And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep, in Thine Own name, those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, even as we are.

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.

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also 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; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.

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

I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and lovedst them, even as Thou didst love Me.

Father, as to what Thou hast given Me, I desire that they also maybe with Me, where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me; because Thou didst love Me before the founding of a world.

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

So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of Jews is to bury.

for as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead.

But Mary was standing without by the tomb, weeping. So, as she was weeping, she stooped to look into the tomb;

Jesus, therefore, said to them again, "Peace be to you! As the Father hath sent Me, I also send you."

And, as they were gazing intently into the heaven, while He was ascending, behold, also two men stood by them in white apparel,

who also said, "Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into the heaven? This Jesus, Who was taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye beheld Him ascending into Heaven."

and suddenly there came out of Heaven a sound, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And there appeared to them tongues, as of fire, distributed among them; and it sat upon each one of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, even as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

for these are not drunken, as ye suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;

"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus, the Nazarene, a man accredited from God to you by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God did through Him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;

for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off??s many as the Lord our God shall call to Him."

and they were selling their possessions and goods, and were distributing them to all, according as any one had need.

And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was being carried along, whom they were wont to lay daily at the gate of the temple??hich was called "Beautiful"??o ask alms of those entering the temple;

And, as he was holding Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch, which is called Solomon's, greatly astonished.

And Peter, seeing it, spake to the people, "Men of Israel, why do ye wonder at this? Or why look ye so intently on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him to walk

"And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers;

Moses, indeed, said, 'A prophet will the Lord your God raise up for you from among your brethren, as He did me; to Him shall ye hearken in all things, whatsoever He shall say to you.

And also all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession, as many as spake, also foretold these days.

But, as they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest.

For neither was any one among them in want; for as many as were possessors of lands or houses, selling them, were bringing the prices of the things sold,

and were laying them, at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was being made according as any one had need.

so that they even carried forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, in order that, as Peter might pass by, his shadow at least might overshadow some one of them.

This One God exalted as a Prince and Savior, with His right hand, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

for before these days arose Theudas, alleging that he himself was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were disbanded, and came to nothing.

After this arose Judas, the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and drew away people after him; he also perished; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

And every day, in the temple, and at their homes, they ceased not teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

And all those who were sitting in the Sanhedrin, gazing intently at him, saw his face as it were an angel's face.

But, as the time of the promise which God promised to Abraham was drawing nigh, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt,

but, when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and nourished him as her own son.

Do you wish to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

And Moses, seeing it, wondered at the sight; and, as he drew near to observe it, there came a voice of the Lord,

This Moses whom they denied, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?' him hath God sent as both ruler and redeemer, with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A Prophet will God raise up for you of your brethren, as He did me.

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; for as for this Moses who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what happened to him.'

But God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it has been written in a book of the prophets, 'Did ye offer to Me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

"Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as He, directed, Who spake to Moses, that he should make it according to the model which he had seen;

Yet the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as says the prophet,

Ye stiffnecked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears! ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye.

who, indeed, received the law as the ministrations of angels, and did not keep it."

for as yet He had fallen upon no one of them, but they had only been immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and, as a lamb dumb before its shearer, so He openeth not His mouth.

And, as they were journeying along the way, they came to a certain water; and the eunuch says, "Behold, here is water; what hinders me from being immersed?"

And, as he was journeying, it came to pass, that he was drawing nigh to Damascus; and suddenly there flashed around him a light from Heaven;

and straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received sight; and, arising, he was immersed; and, having taken food, he was strengthened.

Now, on the morrow, as they were journeying, and coming near to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.

and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth;

Now, as Peter was much perplexed in himself as to what the vision which he saw might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate;

Wherefore, also, having been sent for, I came without gainsaying. I ask, therefore, with what intent ye sent for me."

And those of the circumcision who believed, as many as came with Peter, were amazed, because that upon the gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit;

"Can any one forbid the water, that these should not be immersed, who, indeed, received the Holy Spirit as well as we?"

"I was in the city of Joppa, praying: and, in a trance, I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending, as a large sheet, let down out of the heaven by four corners; and it came close to me:

And, as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us at the beginning;

If, therefore, God gave them the like gift, as to us who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

Those, therefore, who were dispersed by reason of the tribulation that arose about Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none but Jews only.

And the report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem; and they sent forth Barnabas as far as Antioch;

And the disciples, according as any one of them was being prospered, determined, each of them, to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judaea;

And, when it became day, there was no small commotion among the soldiers, as to what, consequently, became of Peter.

And, having arrived in Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they had John also as an attendant.

And, having gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus,

And for about the time of forty years He bore them as a nursing father in the wilderness.

And, as John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do ye suppose me to be? I am not He. But, behold, there cometh One after me, the sandals of Whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.'

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!'

And, as they were going out, they kept beseeching him that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath.

Speaking boldly, both Paul and Barnabas said, "It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Inasmuch as ye thrust it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the gentiles;

And the gentiles, having heard it, were rejoicing, and glorifying the word of God; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

And, having arrived, and having gathered together the assembly, they were rehearsing as many things as God did with them, and that He opened to the gentiles a door of faith.