Jesus therefore, again shuddering in himself with indignation, came to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone lying upon it.

But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them,

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

and there remained with his disciples. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover.

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.

So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table.

Then Mary took a pound of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over his feet, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Then said Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him,

"Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?"

This he said not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, carrying the purse,

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

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.

because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus.

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

Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing.

(In saying this he was signifying by what kind of death he was to die.)

This was why they could not believe, because Isaiah said again.

Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

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,

and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself.

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.

Then he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Peter answered, "No, never shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," said Jesus, "you have no part in me."

If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet,

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."

There was reclining upon Jesus' breast one of the disciples whom he loved.

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

So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

"But I have told you these things, that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them, myself. I did not, however, speak of these things at first, because I was with you.

They know now that whatever thou hast given me was from thee;

While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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.

Then Jesus, knowing all that was coming upon him, went forth to meet them, and asked them, "Who is it that you are looking for?"

"For Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. He said to them, "I am he." (Now Judas also, the betrayer, was standing with them.)

(The slave's name was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter. "Put up your sword in its sheath. the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"

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.)

Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple who was known to the high priest, and they went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest's palace.

But Peter took his stand outside, near the door. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest came out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

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.

Jesus replied "If I have said anything wrong, give evidence concerning the wrong; but if I said what was true, why do you strike me?"

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You are not also one of his disciples, are you not?" He denied it, saying "I am not."

From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.

The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die).

"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

Then they all shouted again. "No, not him! Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

Now when Pilate heard these words he was more alarmed than ever,

And it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS"

This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where they crucified Jesus was near the city, and the inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

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;

so the soldiers said one to another. "Let us not tear it. Let us draw lots, to see whose it shall be"??hat the Scripture might be fulfilled. They divided my garments among them, For my raiment did they cast lots. This was what the soldiers did.

After that, when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished, he said in fulfilment of the words of Scripture, "I am thirsty."

There was a jar full of vinegar standing there; and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon a stalk of hyssop, and put it to his lips.

It was Preparation Day, so in order to prevent the bodies' hanging on the cross during the Sabbath (for the Sabbath was a great day) the Jews begged Pilate to have the legs broken, and the bodies taken away.

But upon coming to Jesus they saw that he was already dead, and did not break his legs.

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but in secret because of fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took the body.

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.

Here, because of its being Preparation Day, and as the tomb was near by, they placed Jesus.

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.

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

Jesus said to her. "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" She, supposing that he was the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have borne him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away, myself."

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called "The Twin." was not with them when Jesus came.

A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood there among and said: "Peace to you!"

But when day was dawning Jesus stood on the beach. The disciples, however, did not recognize that it was Jesus.

Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" On hearing that it was the Lord, Simon Peter girt his fisher's coat about him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the water.

So Simon Peter went and dragged the net to shore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; but for all this number the net was not torn.

"Come and have breakfast," said Jesus to them. Not one of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" Knowing that it was the Lord.

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

The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me."

This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God. After speaking thus, he said to him, "Follow me."

Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following??e who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

Accordingly the report spread among the brothers that this disciple should not die; but Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said, "If I choose that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

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

And once when he was eating with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. "Of this," he said, "you have heard from me.

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.

While they were gazing into the sky as he was going up, suddenly there were two men in white garments standing by them,

It was during these days that Peter stood up among the brothers??he whole number of persons present was about one hundred and twenty??nd said:

"Men and brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David in regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

"For he was numbered among us, and he did get his allotted share of this ministry.

"This fact became known to the people of Jerusalem so that the place was called in their language, Acheldamach, The Field of Blood.

from his baptism by John down to the day on which he was taken up from us, one should join us a witness to his resurrection."

Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

When the day of Pentecost was fully come, and they were all together in the same place,

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

So when this noise was heard, the crowd gathered in bewilderment because each man heard them speaking in his own language.

but God has raised him to life, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for death to hold him.

"Men and brothers, I can speak plainly to you concerning the patriarch David, because he not only died and was buried, but his tomb is among us even to this very day.

"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,

"he, foreseeing this, spoke of the resurrection of Christ that neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

when a man lame from his birth was carried along, who was wont to be laid each day near the gate of the Temple called the Beautiful Gate, to ask alms of those who were going into the Temple.

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.

While he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people crowded awe-struck around them, in what was known as Solomon's Portico.

"It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you in turning every one of you away from your wicked ways."

They arrested them, and put them in prison till the next day, for it was already evening.

There was held in Jerusalem, next morning, a meeting of their rulers, the elders and scribes,

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.

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.