The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go."

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing at all!

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

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

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!"

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

Then the crowd responded, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

But Jesus shouted out, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

Jesus replied, "The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you."

(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, "Not every one of you is clean.")

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."

So Simon Peter gestured to this disciple to ask Jesus who it was he was referring to.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus' chest and asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

Jesus replied, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish." Then he dipped the piece of bread in the dish and gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son.

Jesus replied, "Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

The one who hates me hates my Father too.

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father -- he will testify about me,

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

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

"I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.)

Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

They replied, "Jesus the Nazarene." He told them, "I am he." (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.)

Then Jesus asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."

He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, "I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear. (Now the slave's name was Malchus.)

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

But Simon Peter was left standing outside by the door. So the other disciple who was acquainted with the high priest came out and spoke to the slave girl who watched the door, and brought Peter inside.

The girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You're not one of this man's disciples too, are you?" He replied, "I am not."

Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said. They know what I said."

When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest's officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

Then Pilate said, "So you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world -- to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

Jesus replied, "You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin."

From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!"

So the soldiers said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it." This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice." So the soldiers did these things.

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, here is your son!"

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.

And again another scripture says, "They will look on the one whom they have pierced."

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went right into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen cloth lying there,

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed.

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him."

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed."

Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael (who was from Cana in Galilee), the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of his were together.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.

"Come, have breakfast," Jesus said. But none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they knew it was the Lord.

Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. (This was the disciple who had leaned back against Jesus' chest at the meal and asked, "Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?")

This is the disciple who testifies about these things and has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven."

"Brothers, the scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through David concerning Judas -- who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus --

This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is, "Field of Blood.")

Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

Completely baffled, they said, "Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

But Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them: "You men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, know this and listen carefully to what I say.

And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

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

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

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

All who believed were together and held everything in common,

praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called "the Beautiful Gate" every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.

and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement at what had happened to him.

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

But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

And on the basis of faith in Jesus' name, his very name has made this man -- whom you see and know -- strong. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.'

And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

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

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest's family.

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, this man stands before you healthy.

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.