"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going.

And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

"Who are you?" then they asked him. "What I am telling you from the beginning," Jesus answered.

"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him."

"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."

"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.

Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.

"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.

"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.

"We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from."

"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.

"But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

"No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

"I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

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

So from that day they plotted to kill him.

Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,

and there remained with his disciples. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover.

So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

and taking branches from the palm trees went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord. Even Israel's King!"

Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing.

Now is my soul disquieted. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, for this very cause I am come to this hour.

Father, glorify thy name!" Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

"AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO MYSELF."

With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he was come from God,

and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself.

"From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father too; from now on you know him and have seen him."

"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

"and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.

"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.

So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy shall no man snatch away from you.

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

I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world. again, I am leaving the world, and am going to the Father."

Now we are sure that you know all things, and have no need for any one to question you; by this we believe that you came forth from God."

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

I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

So after getting troops and some Temple police from the chief priests and Pharisees, Judas came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.

"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."

After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, to each soldier a part, and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;

Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and discovered that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

For not yet had they understood the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

There were together Simon Peter and Thomas, called "The Twin," and Nathanael, from Cana of Galilee, and the two sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

The rest of the disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore??nly about a hundred yards??ragging in the net full of fish.

This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after he had risen from among the dead.

My first account, O Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus began doing and teaching from the beginning down to the day when,

And once when he was eating with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. "Of this," he said, "you have heard from me.

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."

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, about a Sabbath Day's journey distant.

from his baptism by John down to the day on which he was taken up from us, one should join us a witness to his resurrection."

"in this ministry of this apostles from which Judas went out to go to his own place."

there came suddenly from the sky a sound like the onrush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Now there were, staying in Jerusalem. devout Jews from many and distant lands.

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.

With many other words he continued to bear testimony, and kept entreating them, saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation."

They would sell their lands and other property, and distribute the proceeds among all, just as any one from time had need.

when a man lame from his birth was carried along, who was wont to be laid each day near the gate of the Temple called the Beautiful Gate, to ask alms of those who were going into the Temple.

So he waited, expecting to get something from them. Then Peter said:

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

"Repent then! and reform, from the blotting out of your sins, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;

"Moses, for example, said: "The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brothers, as he raised up me; you must listen to whatever he may tell you;

"and it shall be that every soul who will not listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

"Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and his successors, all that have spoken, have also told of those days.

"It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you in turning every one of you away from your wicked ways."

incensed at their teaching the people, and proclaiming, in the case of Jesus, the resurrection from the dead.

"be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand before you strong and well.

So they bade them withdraw from the Sanhedrin, while they conferred together.

but Gamaliel, a Pharisee, a teacher of the law, and held in honor by all the people, rose from his seat, and ordered the apostles to be put outside for a little while.

"And now, I say to you, hold aloof from these men. Let them alone; for if this scheme or work be of human origin it will come to nothing;

"but if it is from God, you cannot put it down; you may even find yourselves fighting against God."

but not for a single day did they desist from teaching and preaching in the Temple, and in private houses, the Gospel of Jesus, the Messiah.

"So, brothers, find from among your own number seven men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom, and we will appoint them over this business.

But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen,

"So he left Chaldea and settled in Haran, and from there, after his father's death, God moved him to this land which you inhabit.

"There he died, and our ancestors also, and they were carried across to Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the land, and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.

"It was this Moses who said to the Children of Israel, "God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brothers, as he did me.

"So God turned from them, and gave them up to the worship of the heavenly host, as it is written in the book of the Prophets. "Did you offer unto me slain beasts as sacrifices during the forty years in the wilderness, O House of Israel?

Many from all classes would give heed to him, declaring, "This man is the Power of God, known as the Great Power."

And an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go on your way south, along the road that runs down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert way."

In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who will declare his posterity? For his life is cut off from the earth.

Then Philip opened his lips, and beginning from that same scripture, he preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

And as he journeyed, when he was approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed round him.

And Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he continued to perceive nothing; so they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

"But, Lord," said Ananias, "I have heard from many about that man, and how much evil he did to the saints at Jerusalem!

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

Instantly something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

Now Peter, as he was going from town to town, came down also to the saints who lived in Lydda.