They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

So they again summoned the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give God the praise. This man we know is a sinful man."

Jesus learned that they had excluded him, and he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

Now Jesus had referred to his death. But they supposed that he meant a natural falling asleep.

When Jesus arrived he found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.

and a number of Jews had come out to see Mary and Martha, to condole with them about their brother.

Martha said to Jesus, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!

for Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation,

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

On the following day the crowds that had come up to the festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

His disciples did not understand this at the time but after Jesus was glorified they remembered that this was said of him in Scripture and that it had happened to him.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was telling about it.

That was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had showed that sign.

There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival,

But for all the signs he had shown among them, they refused to believe in him,

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

When he had washed their feet and put on his clothes and taken his place, he said to them again, "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?

After Jesus had said this he was greatly moved and said solemnly, "I tell you, it is one of you that will betray me!"

for some of them thought that as Judas had the purse Jesus meant to say to him, "Buy what we need for the festival," or to have him give something to the poor.

I have told you all this so that you may have the happiness that I have had, and your happiness may be complete.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father??hat Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father??e will bear testimony to me,

When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you,

Now, Father, do such honor to me in your presence as I had done me there before the world existed.

I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the Ravine of the Cedars where there was a garden, and he went into it with his disciples.

This was to fulfil the saying he had uttered, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it and struck at the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus.

Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interest that one man should die for the people.

As it was cold the slaves and attendants had made a charcoal fire, and stood about it warming themselves. And Peter also was among them, standing and warming himself.

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you with him in the garden?"

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

And the soldiers made a wreath out of thorns and put it on his head, and put a purple coat on him, and they marched up to him,

When Pilate heard that, he had Jesus brought out and had him sit in the judge's seat in the place they call the Stone Platform, or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

Pilate had written a placard and had it put on the cross; it read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, besides his shirt. Now his shirt had no seam; it was woven in one piece from top to bottom.

When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished!" Then bowing his head he gave up his spirit.

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other who had been crucified with him.

And Nicodemus also, who had first come to Jesus at night, went, taking a roll of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.

There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

On the day after the Sabbath, 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 it.

and the handkerchief that had been over Jesus' face not on the ground with the bandages, but folded up by itself.

Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first went inside too, and saw and was convinced.

and saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus' body had been, one at his head and one at his feet.

Mary of Magdala went and declared to the disciples, "I have seen the Master!" and she told them that he had said this to her.

Then the disciple who was dear to Jesus said to Peter, "It is the Master!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Master, he put on his clothes, for he had taken them off, and sprang into the sea.

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

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

He said this to show the kind of death by which Peter was to honor God; and after he had said it he said to Peter, "Follow me!"

until the day when through the holy Spirit he gave the apostles he had chosen their instructions, and was taken up to heaven.

He had shown himself alive to them after he had suffered, in many convincing ways, appearing to them through forty days, and telling them about the Kingdom of God.

And once when he ate with them, he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," he said,

"Brothers, the prediction of the Scriptures had to come true that the holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide for the men that arrested Jesus??17 for he was one of our number and a share in this ministry of ours fell to his lot."

And they saw tongues like flames separating and settling one on the head of each of them,

But others said derisively, "They have had too much new wine!"

But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified.

But as he was a prophet, and knew that God had promised him with an oath that he would put one of his descendants upon his throne,

So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.

The believers all shared everything they had with one another,

when a man who had been lame from his birth was carried by. He used to be placed every day at what was known as the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, to beg from the people on their way into the Temple,

and recognized him as the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were perfectly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.

When Peter saw this, he said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you stare so at us, as though it were some power or some piety of ours that had made him able to walk?

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has done this honor to his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go.

It was to you that God first sent his servant after he had raised him from the dead, to bless you by making every one of you turn from his wickedness."

greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and declaring that in the case of Jesus there had been a resurrection from the dead.

But many of those who had heard what they said believed it, and their number grew to be about five thousand.

They had the apostles brought before them and demanded of them, "By what power or authority have men like you done this?"

and seeing the man who had been cured standing beside them, they had nothing to say.

But after further threats they let them go, as they could find no way to punish them, on account of the people, who were all giving honor to God for what had happened,

for the man on whom this wonder of healing had been done was more than forty years old.

After being released, the apostles went back to their friends, and told them what the high priests and members of the council had said to them.

For they have assembled here in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

to carry out what your hand and will had destined should happen.

When they had prayed, the place where they were meeting shook, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, and fearlessly uttered God's message.

There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.

Joseph, a Levite, and a native of Cyprus, whom the apostles had named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement,

But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property,

About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had happened.

and they had the apostles arrested and put in the common jail.

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

They were convinced by him, and they called the apostles in and had them flogged, and warned them not to speak about the name of Jesus, and then let them go.

So they went out from before the council, glad that they had been thought worthy to bear disgrace for the sake of Jesus,

This plan met the approval of the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, who had been a convert to Judaism.

He gave him no property in it, not a single foot, but he promised to give it to him and his posterity after him permanently, though he had no children at that time.

and they were carried back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.