Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

followed by a large crowd on account of the Signs which they had seen him perform on sick folk.

Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

and embarking in a boat they started across the sea for Capharnahum. By this time it was dark, Jesus had not reached them yet,

Next day the crowd which had been left standing on the other side of the sea bethought them that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, who had left by themselves.

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up too, not publicly but as it were privately.

So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet.

(he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: ??as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

Nicodemus, one of their number (the same who had come to him before), said to them,

The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery, and making her stand forward

"Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple, but no one arrested him, because his time had not come yet.

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

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

As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth;

Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.

Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes.

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?"

and went across the Jordan, back to the spot where John had baptized at first. There he stayed;

Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,

Now when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.

a number of Jews had gone to condole with Martha and Mary about their brother;

Said Martha to Jesus, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died.

Jesus had not entered the village yet, he was still at the spot where Martha had met him.

But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."

Now a number of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and who witnessed what he had done, believed in him.

But some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done;

(The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.)

Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead).

Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

Next day the great mass of people who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem,

(His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign.

Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival;

When they heard the sound, the people standing by said it had thundered; others said, "An angel spoke to him."

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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

Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;

so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

the Father had put everything into his hands ??knowing that he had come from God and was going to God,

then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him.

"Lord," said Simon Peter, "then wash not only my feet but my hands and head."

When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now at last the Son of man is glorified, and in him God is glorified: [if God is glorified in him,]

They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin ??23 he who hates me hates my Father also.

They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen ??and they have hated ??both me and my Father.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear (the servant's name was Malchus);

and brought him first of all to Annas (for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year ??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interests that one man should die for the people).

Now the servants and the attendants were standing and warming themselves at a charcoal fire which they had lit (for it was cold), and Peter also stood beside them and warmed himself.

Then Annas had him bound and sent him to Caiaphas the high priest.

Said one of the high priest's servants, a kinsman of the man whose ear had been cut off by Peter, "Did I not see you with him in the orchard?"

They retorted, "If he had not been a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you."

(that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, by which he had indicated the kind of death he was to die).

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.

And the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe,

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."

Pilate had written an inscription to be put on the cross; what he wrote was, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Now many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus had been crucified was close to the city; besides, the inscription was in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

And when Jesus took the vinegar, he said, "It is finished," bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

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

accompanied by Nicodemus (he who had first come to Jesus by night) who brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds of it;

Now at the spot where he had been crucified there was an orchard, and in the orchard a new tomb where no one had yet been laid;

On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala went early to the tomb, when it was still dark; but as she saw the boulder had been removed from the tomb,

but that the napkin which had been round his head was folded up by itself, instead of lying beside the other bandages.

Upon this the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went inside too, and when he saw for himself he was convinced.

and noticed two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.

Away went Mary of Magdala to the disciples with the news, "I have seen the Lord!" ??telling them what he had said to her.

On the evening of that same day ??the first day of the week ??though the disciples had gathered within closed doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"

Peter turned round and saw that the favourite disciple of Jesus was following, the disciple who had leant on his breast at supper and put the question, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

down to the day when, after issuing his orders by the holy Spirit to the disciples whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.

After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.

On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.

"My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

They saw tongues like flames distributing themselves, one resting on the head of each,

(He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne;

The believers all kept together; they shared all they had with one another,

and when they recognized this was the very man who used to sit and beg at the Gate Beautiful, they were lost in awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

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?

The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers ??18 though this was how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the lips of all the prophets, namely the sufferings of his Christ.

He is the stone despised by you builders, which has become head of the corner.

but as they saw the man who had been healed standing beside them, they could say nothing.

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."

Then they threatened them still further and let them go; on account of the people they found themselves unable to find any means of punishing them, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened

(the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed, being more than forty years old).

On being released they went to their friends and related what the high priests and elders had said;

mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

[Relocated to before vs 34] Now there was but one heart and soul among the multitude of the believers; not one of them considered anything his personal property, they shared all they had with one another.

But a man called Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira had sold some property,

After an interval of about three hours his wife happened to come in, quite unconscious of what had occurred.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

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

As the time approached for the promise God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

When he had completed his fortieth year, it occurred to him to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.