Then they brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes;

so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

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.

So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him.

"If this man had not come of God he could have done nothing."

Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of man?"

and went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.

Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death, but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep.

so when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been four days in the tomb.

so a number of the Jews had gone to Martha and Mary to sympathize with them concerning their brother.

Then Martha said to Jesus. "Master, had you been here my brother would not have died;

Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still at the place where Martha met him.

When Mary came to the place where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, "Master had you been here, my brother would not have died."

When he had said this he cried with a great voice, "Lazarus, come forth!"

Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary, and had seen what he did, believed on him;

but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was. he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

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.

Next day the big crowd who had come up for the Passover heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,

His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written concerning him, and what they had done to him.

For this reason, too, the crowd came to meet him, because they had heard about this sign which he had done.

Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast;

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.

Now Jesus, speaking in a loud voice, had said:

So while supper was proceeding, and the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,

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

Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he had girded himself.

So after he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments again, and taken his place, he said to them.

When he had spoken thus, Jesus was deeply moved. He testified and said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

So when he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. And after he had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "What you do, do quickly," said Jesus.

When he had taken the piece of bread, Judas went out immediately; and it was night.

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

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

"If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

When he had thus spoken, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the hour is come. Glorify the Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began.

After he had spoken these words Jesus went forth with his disciples to a place across the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples went.

(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut off his right ear.

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

Now the slaves and the attendants were standing and warming themselves about a charcoal fire, which they had made because it was cold; and Peter also stood with them, and was warming himself.

When he had spoken these words, one of the police standing by gave him a blow with his hand, saying as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

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

In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you."

After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged;

"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 after he had taken the vinegar, Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED!" And bowing his head, he yielded up his spirit.

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

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

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.

and the napkin which had been about his head not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up in it's own place.

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

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

When she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but did not know that it was Jesus.

On the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, although the doors of the room where the disciples gathered had been locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and there he stood among them, saying. "Peace to you!"

When he had said this he breathed upon them and said:

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

after giving instructions through the Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.

After his sufferings he had also shown himself alive to them in many convincing manifestations, revealing himself to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.

When he had said this, and while they were looking at him, he was lifted up, and a cloud received him up out of their sight.

"Because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit of his loins he would set one on his throne,

And all the believers were together, and had all things in common.

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

and recognized that this was the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

When he saw this, Peter said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you wondering at this? Why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made this man to walk?

"The God of Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go;

But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Now when they beheld the glad fearlessness of Peter and John and had perceived that they were amazed; and they began to recognize them, that they were companions of Jesus.

But since they saw the man standing with them who had been healed, they had nothing to answer.

So when they had further threatened them they let the apostles go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them because of the people, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened.

For the man on whom this miracle of healing had been wrought was over forty years old.

As soon as the apostles were released, they went to their friends, and told what the high priests and elders had said.

"In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel??28 "to do all that thy power and thy will had predetermined should be done.

When they had prayed, the place where they were gathered was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak the message of the Lord with boldness.

Now the multitude of the believers was of one heart and one soul, nor did any one of them say that any of his possessions was his own; but they had all things common.

sold a farm which he had, and brought the price, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened;

And great fear fell on all the church and upon all who had heard it.

And some one came and told them that the very men whom they had put in prison were standing in the Temple, and teaching to the people.

So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;

These men they presented to the apostles who, when they had prayed, laid their hands upon them.

"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.

"This was he who brought them out, after he had shown signs and wonders in the wilderness, for forty years.

"And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to this idol, and began to rejoice over what they had made with their hands.

"In the wilderness our ancestors had the Tabernacle of Testimony built, as he appointed who told Moses to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

Now for some time a man named Simon had been practicing sorcery in that city, and had amazed the people of Samaria. He gave himself out to be some great person.

They were giving heed to him because, for a long time, he had amazed them with his sorceries.

The apostle at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, sent to them Peter and John.

For he had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

So he arose and went. And behold an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, who was a high official (a chief treasurer) of Candace, the queen of Ethiopia, who had come to Jerusalem to worship

And when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but continued on his way rejoicing.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and told them how Saul had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him; and also how he had preached the Name of the Lord Jesus boldly at Damascus.

About three o'clock one afternoon he had a vision, and distinctly saw an angel of God enter his house and say to him, "Cornelius."

He had become very hungry and longed for food; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance.

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed to know what the vision which he had been sent by Cornelius, and had made inquiries for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

and the day after that they reached Caesarea. There Cornelius was waiting for them, and had brought together all his relatives and intimate friends.