I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you!

They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did;

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."

Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.

The Jews retorted, "Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, you are mad?"

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure you are mad. Abraham is dead, and so are all the prophets; and you declare, 'If anyone holds to what I say, he will never taste death'!

Are you greater than our father Abraham? He is dead, and the prophets are dead. Who do you claim to be?"

Then said the Jews to him, "You are not fifty years old, and Abraham has seen you?"

Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses!

On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?"

Others said, "These are not a madman's words. Can a madman open the eyes of the blind?"

So the Jews gathered round him and asked, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

I and my Father are one ??."

Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?

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'?

"Rabbi," said the disciples, "the Jews were trying to stone you only the other day; are you going back there?"

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world:

"Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" ??28 and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you."

are relocated after vs 50] With these words Jesus went away and hid from them.

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

(he knew the traitor; that was why he said, "You are not all clean").

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am.

Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet;

If you know all this, blessed are you if you really do it.

I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

"Lord," said Simon Peter, "where are you going?" Jesus replied, "I am going where you cannot follow me at present; later on you will follow me."

In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you?

"Lord," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going, and how are we to know the way?"

You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

"Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?"

You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.

This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

You are my friends ??if you do what I command you;

are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;

and you too are witnesses, for you have been with me from the very beginning.

but now I am going to him who sent me. And yet not one of you asks, 'Where are you going?'

Jesus knew they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are discussing together, why I said, 'In a little while, you will not see me: then, after a little, you shall see me'?

So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice ??with a joy that no one can take from you.

His disciples said, "Now, you are talking plainly at last, not speaking in figures.

Now we are sure you know everything, and need no one to put questions to you. This makes us believe you have come forth from God."

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.

I pray for them ??not for the world but for those whom thou hast given me do I pray; for they are thine

I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

Yea, I have given them the glory thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one ??23 I in them and thou in me ??that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

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

so he asked them once more, "Who are you looking for?" And when they replied, "Jesus the Nazarene,"

he answered, "I told you that I am he; if it is me you are looking for, let these men get away"

The maidservant at the door then said to Peter, "Are you not one of this fellow's disciples?" He said, "No."

They asked him, "Are you not one of his disciples?" He denied it, saying, "No,"

So Pilate went back inside the praetorium and called Jesus, saying, "Then you are king of the Jews?"

Jesus replied, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did other people tell you about me?"

"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."

Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

This made Pilate anxious to release him, but the Jews yelled, "If you release him, you are no friend of Caesar's! Anyone who makes himself a king is against Caesar!"

"Woman," they said to her, "why are you sobbing?" She said, "Because they have taken away my master, and I do not know where they have put him!"

"Woman," said Jesus, "why are you sobbing? Who are you looking for?" Supposing he was the gardener, she said, "Oh, sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you put him, and I will remove him."

If you remit the sins of any, they are remitted: if you retain them, they are retained."

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going to fish." They said, "We are coming with you too." Off they went and embarked in the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

Now when they met, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time you are going to restore the Realm to Israel?"

All were amazed and astonished. "Are these not all Galileans," they said, "who are speaking?

Some others sneered, "They are brim-full of new wine!"

these men are not drunk, as you imagine. Why, it is only nine in the morning!

When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?"

For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours?

Now you are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers when he said to Abraham, all families on earth shall be blessed in your offspring.

if we are being cross-examined to-day upon a benefit rendered to a cripple, upon how this man got better,

"What are we to do with these men?" they said. "It is plain to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem that a miracle has admittedly been worked by them. That we cannot deny.

However, to keep things from going any further with the people, we had better threaten them that they are not to tell anyone in future about this Name."

Peter said to her, "How could you arrange to put the Lord's Spirit to the proof? Listen, there are the footsteps of the men who have buried your husband! They are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."

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

Brothers, look out seven of your own number, men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom. We will appoint them to this duty,

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

But the Lord said to him, 'Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is sacred ground.

Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you!

For I see you are a bitter poison and a pack of evil."

When Philip ran up, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. "Do you really understand what you are reading?"

"Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me.

So the Spirit said to Peter, who was pondering over the vision, "There are three men looking for you!

Then Peter went down to the men, saying, "I am the man you are looking for. What is your reason for coming?"

saying, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, your alms are remembered by God.

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."

he will tell you how you and all your household are to be saved.'

"You are mad," they said. But she insisted it was true. "It is his angel," they said.

The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;

For many days he was seen by those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem; they are now his witnesses to the People.

For these are the Lord's orders to us: I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the end of the earth."

shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

Well now, why are you trying to impose a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we ourselves could bear?

No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are."

that the rest of men may seek for the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, saith the Lord,

Hence, in my opinion, we ought not to put fresh difficulties in the way of those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

Some days later, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come and let us go back to visit the brothers in every town where we have proclaimed the word of the Lord. Let us see how they are doing."

When she was baptized, along with her household, she begged us, saying, "If you are convinced I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." She compelled us to come.

She followed Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are servants of the Most High God, they proclaim to you the way of salvation!"