I know Him myself, because I have come from Him, and He has sent me."

Whoever continues to believe in me will have, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water continuously flowing from within him."

Others said, "This is the Christ." But still others said, "The Christ does not come from Galilee, does He?

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

Then they answered him, "You are not from Galilee, too, are you? Search the record and see that no prophet has ever come from Galilee."

And she said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go. Stop sinning from this point on."

Jesus answered them, "Even if I do testify to 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 come from or where I am going.

He continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this present world; I do not belong to this present world.

I have much to say about you and much to condemn in you, but He who sent me is truthful, and I am telling the world only what I have learned from Him."

I am telling you what I have seen in my Father's presence, and you are practicing what you have learned from your father."

But right now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that He has learned from God. Abraham never did that.

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to what God says. This is why you do not listen to me: you are not sprung from God."

As He passed along, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful man perform such wonder- works?" So there was a difference of opinion among them.

We do know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see!

If this man had not come from God, He could not have done anything like this."

But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it as a free gift. I have the right to give it and I have the right to take it back. I have gotten this order from my Father."

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

Once more they were trying to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.

Now Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem,

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

Now he did not say this on his own authority, but because he was high priest that year he uttered this prophecy from God, that Jesus was to die for the nation,

So from that day they plotted to kill Jesus.

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and many people from the country went up to Jerusalem, to purify themselves before the Passover.

Now six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead.

A goodly number of the Jews learned that He was at Bethany, and so they came there, not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

"Cease from fearing, Daughter of Zion; See, your King is coming mounted on an ass's colt!"

The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, kept on talking about it.

and they went to Philip who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and kept making this request of him, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Now my soul is troubled; what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour of agony! And yet it was for this very purpose that I came to this hour of agony.

And if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to me."

The crowd answered Him, "We have learned from the law that the Christ is to remain here forever, and so how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

so that the utterance of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the mighty arm of the Lord been shown?"

because He was sure that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God,

got up from the table, took off His outer clothes, and took a towel and tied it around His waist.

From now on I will tell you things before they take place, so that when they do take place, you may believe that I am the Christ.

If you knew me, you would know my Father too. From now on you do know Him and you have seen Him."

Whoever does not really love me does not observe my teaching; and yet the teaching which you are listening to is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

And you too are to bear testimony to me, because you have been with me from the start."

"I have told you these things to keep you from falling over stumbling blocks.

for the Father tenderly loves you Himself, because you now tenderly love me and now believe that I have come from the Father.

I did come from the Father and I have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."

Now we know that you know everything and do not need that anyone should ask you questions. For this reason we believe that you have come from God."

Now they have come to know that everything you have given me really comes from you;

for I have given them the teachings that you gave me, and they have accepted them, and they have come to know in reality that I did come from you, and so they are convinced that you did send me.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil in it.

So Judas got together the Roman garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's palace. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's palace themselves, in order not to be defiled, so as to be unfit to eat the Passover supper.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would have been fighting to keep me from being turned over to the Jews. But as a matter of fact, my kingdom does not come from such a source."

and went back into the governor's palace and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus made no answer.

Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it had not been given to you from above. So the man who betrayed me to you is more guilty than you."

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took His clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, except the coat, which was without a seam, woven in one piece from top to bottom,

Then He said to His disciple, "There is your mother." And from that very hour His disciple took her to his own home.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

So she ran away and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus tenderly loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him."

For they had not previously understood the Scripture which said that He must rise from the dead.

The rest of the disciples followed in the little boat, for they were not far from shore -- only about a hundred yards -- dragging in the net full of fish.

This was now the third time that Jesus showed Himself to His disciples, after He had risen from the dead.

I wrote my first volume, Theophilus, about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning

and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This very Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in just the way you have seen Him go up into heaven."

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, only half a mile away.

from the time of His baptism by John down to the day when He was taken up from us, must be added to our number as a witness to His resurrection."

to take a share in this service as an apostle, from which Judas fell away to go to his own place."

when suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a terrific blast of wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting,

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

of Phrygia and Pamphylia, of Egypt and the district of Libya around Cyrene, transient dwellers from Rome, Jews and proselytes,

but God raised Him up by loosing Him from the pangs of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held by the power of death.

I mean Jesus whom God raised from the dead, to which fact we are all witnesses,

So He has been exalted to God's right hand and has received from His Father, as promised, and poured out upon us the Holy Spirit, as you see and hear.

With many more words he continued to testify and to plead with them to save themselves from that crooked age.

when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

The beggar looked at them, supposing that he was going to get something from them.

and you killed the Prince of life, but God raised Him from the dead, to which fact we are witnesses.

So now repent and turn to Him, to have your sins wiped out, that times of revival may come from the presence of the Lord,

Moses, indeed, said: 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, as He did me. You must attentively listen to everything that He tells you.

The result will be, that any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

Yes, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel down, have also foretold these days.

It was to you first that He sent His Servant, after raising Him from the dead, to bless you by causing every one of you to turn from his wicked ways."

because they were very much disturbed over their continuing to teach the people and to declare in the case of Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

you and all the people of Israel must know that it is by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead -- yes, I repeat it, it is by His authority that this man stands here before you well.

But to keep it from spreading farther among the people, let us severely threaten them not to say anything at all to anyone else about this person."

for we cannot keep from telling what we have seen and heard."

Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds continued coming in to bring their sick ones and those troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.

So in the present case, I warn you, stay away from these men, let them alone. For, if this program or movement has its origin in men, it will go to pieces,

So they went out from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer disgrace for Jesus' name;

So, brothers, you must select from your number seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit, and of good practical sense, and we will assign them to this business,

But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, got to debating with Stephen,

and delivered him from all his troubles, and allowed him to win favor and to show wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and so he appointed Joseph governor of Egypt and of his whole household.

and were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought with a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

It was this Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among you, just as He did me.'

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the starry host, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets: 'Did you really offer me victims and sacrifices those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

But Saul continued to harass the church, and by going from house to house and dragging off men and women he continued to put them into prison.

Now those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.