So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."

Even now I know that whatever you ask God, God will grant you."

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world."

So that one, when she heard [it], got up quickly and went to him.

Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"

and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

For they loved the praise of men more than praise from God.

[because he] knew that the Father had given him all [things] into [his] hands, and that he had come forth from God and was going away to God,

he got up from the dinner and took off [his] outer clothing, and taking a towel, tied [it] around himself.

Then, when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him immediately.

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.

But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father has commanded me, thus I am doing. Get up, let us go from here!

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

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

Now we know that you know everything and do not {need for} anyone to ask you [questions]. By this we believe that you have come from God."

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. (Now the name of the slave was Malchus.)

One of the slaves of the high priest, who was related to the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?"

The Jews replied to him, "We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!"

Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.'"

Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

but these [things] are recorded in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that [by] believing you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing!" They said to him, "We also are coming with you." They went out and got into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing.

So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire laid [there], and a fish lying on [it], and bread.

So Simon Peter got into [the boat] and hauled the net to the land, full of large fish--one hundred fifty-three--and [although there] were so many, the net was not torn.

(Now he said this to indicate by what kind of death he would glorify God.) And [after he] had said this, he said to him, "Follow me!"

to whom he also presented himself alive after he suffered, with many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking the things about the kingdom of God.

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our [own] languages the great deeds of God!"

'And it will be in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

"Israelite men, listen to these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, just as [you] yourselves know--

this man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed [by] nailing to [a cross] through the hand of lawless men.

God raised {him} up, having brought to an end the pains of death, because it was not possible [for] him to be held by it.

Therefore, [because he] was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat {one of his descendants} on his throne,

This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out this that you see and hear.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified!"

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those [who are] far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself."

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding every day to the total [of] those who were being saved.

And a certain man was being carried who was lame {from birth}. {He} was placed every day at the gate of the temple called "Beautiful," [so that he] could ask for charitable gifts from those who were going into the temple [courts].

And leaping up, he stood and began walking around and entered into the temple [courts] with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

And they recognized him, that this one was the one who used to sit [asking] for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.

The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, [after] he had decided to release [him].

And you killed the originator of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses!

But [the things] which God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, [that] his Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way.

whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all [things], about which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times.

Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You will listen to him in everything that he says to you.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

God, [after he] had raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [of you] back from your wickedness!"

if we are being examined today concerning a good deed [done to] a sick man--by what [means] this man was healed--

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by him this man stands before you healthy!

But Peter and John answered [and] said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God, you decide!

So [after] threatening [them] further, they released them, finding no way to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.

And [when they] heard [it], they lifted [their] voices with one mind to God and said, "Master, you [are] the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,

And [when] they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

[When it] remained to you, did it not remain [yours]? And [when it] was sold, was it at your disposal? How [is it] that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people, but to God!"

But Peter and the apostles answered [and] said, "It is necessary to obey God rather than men!

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed [by] hanging [him] on a tree.

This one God has exalted to his right hand [as] Leader and Savior to grant repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

And we are witnesses of these things, and [so is] the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."

But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them, lest you even be found fighting against God." So they were persuaded by him.

Every day, both in the temple [courts] and from house [to house], they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news [that] the Christ [was] Jesus.

So the twelve summoned the community of disciples [and] said, "It is not desirable [that] we neglect the word of God to serve tables.

So, brothers, select from among you seven men {of good reputation}, full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we will put in charge of this need.

And the word of God kept spreading, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem was increasing greatly, and a large number of priests began obeying the faith.

Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"

So he said, "Men--brothers and fathers--listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham [while he] was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

But God spoke like this: 'His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat [them] four hundred years,

and the nation {that} they will serve as slaves, I will judge,' God said, 'and after these [things] they will come out and will worship me in this place.'

And the patriarchs, [because they] were jealous of Joseph, sold [him] into Egypt. And God was with him,

"But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. {He} was brought up [for] three months in [his] father's house,

And he thought his brothers would understand that God was granting deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand.

'I [am] the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob!' So Moses began trembling [and] did not dare to look at [it].

This Moses whom they had repudiated, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?'--this man God sent [as] both ruler and redeemer with {the help} of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

"This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me [for] forty years in the wilderness, [did you], house of Israel?

And you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images that you made, to worship them, and I will deport you beyond Babylon!'

and which, [after] receiving [it] in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua {when they dispossessed the} nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David,

who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven [and] saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

Now those who had been scattered went about proclaiming the good news [of] the word.

They were all paying attention to {him}, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is the power of God that is called 'Great.'"

But when they believed Philip [as he] was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were being baptized.

Now [when] the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

But Peter said to him, "May your silver {be destroyed along with you}, because you thought {you could acquire} the gift of God by means of money!

{You have no} part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.

So [when] they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they turned back toward Jerusalem, and were proclaiming the good news [to] many villages of the Samaritans.

Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Get up and go toward the south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a desert [road].)

And he got up [and] went, and behold, [there was] a man, an Ethiopian eunuch (a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury) who had come to worship in Jerusalem

So Philip opened his mouth and beginning from this scripture, proclaimed the good news to him [about] Jesus.

But Philip found himself at Azotus, and [as he] passed through, he proclaimed the good news [to] all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

But get up and enter into the city, and it will be told to you {what you must do}."

So Saul got up from the ground, but [although] his eyes were open he could see nothing. And leading him by the hand, they brought [him] into Damascus.

And the Lord [said] to him, "Get up, go to the street called 'Straight' and in the house of Judas look for {a man named Saul from Tarsus}. For behold, he is praying,

And immediately [something] like scales fell from his eyes and he regained [his] sight and got up [and] was baptized,

And immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues: "This one is the Son of God!"

And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you! Get up and make your bed yourself!" And immediately he got up.