But they shouted, "Kill Him! Kill Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Must I crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor!"

So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but let us draw for it to see who gets it." This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, "They divided my clothes among them, and for my clothing they cast lots." Now this was what the soldiers did.

After this, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I am thirsty."

Now Nicodemus also, who had formerly come to Jesus at night, went and took a mixture of myrrh and aloes that weighed about one hundred pounds.

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

So she ran away and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus tenderly loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him."

And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put Him."

On saying this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father has sent me forth, so I am now sending you."

Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came in.

Now there are many other wonder-works which Jesus performed in the disciples' presence which are not recorded in this book.

Now just as day was breaking, Jesus took His stand on the shore, though the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

So Jesus said to them, "Lads, you have no fish, have you?" They answered, "No."

Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." None of the disciples dared to ask Him, "Who are you?" because they knew it was the Lord.

This was now the third time that Jesus showed Himself to His disciples, after He had risen from the dead.

After they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than you are to these things?" Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs."

Jesus again said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, are you really devoted to me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then be a shepherd to my sheep."

For the third time Jesus asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you really tenderly love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus the third time asked him, "Do you really tenderly love me?" So he answered Him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I do tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep.

This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down, and we know that his testimony is true.

For in the Book of Psalms it is written: 'Let his estate be desolate, and let no one live on it,' and 'Let someone else take his position.'

And they prayed, saying, "Lord, you who know the hearts of all, show us which one of these two men you have chosen

When the day of Pentecost had now come, they were all meeting in one mind,

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

But others in derision were saying, "They are running over with new wine."

"Fellow Israelites, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you yourselves well know, a man accredited to you by God through mighty deeds and wonders and wonder-works which God performed through Him right here among you,

So, as he was a prophet and knew that God with an oath had promised to put one of his descendants on his throne,

But Peter said, "No silver or gold have I, but what I do have I will give you. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth start walking."

"And yet, I know, brothers, that you did not realize what you were doing, any more than your leaders did.

So now repent and turn to Him, to have your sins wiped out, that times of revival may come from the presence of the Lord,

you and all the people of Israel must know that it is by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead -- yes, I repeat it, it is by His authority that this man stands here before you well.

There is no salvation by anyone else, for no one else in all the wide world has been appointed among men as our only medium by which to be saved."

And now, Lord, give attention to their threats and help your slaves with perfect courage to continue to speak your message,

Now there was but one heart and soul in the vast number of those who had become believers, and not one of them claimed that anything that he had was his own, but they shared everything that they had as common property.

Now Joseph, a Levite, a native of Cyprus, who by the apostles was named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement,

Now the high priest took a stand, and all his friends, the party of the Sadducees; and being filled with jealousy,

"Go and take your stand in the temple square and continue to tell the people the message of this new life."

reported, "We found the prison safely locked and the keepers on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one on the inside."

When the military commander of the temple square and the high priest heard this, they were utterly at a loss to know how this might turn out.

"Did we not positively forbid you to teach anymore on this authority, and yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and now want to bring on us the people's vengeance for this man's death!"

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, went on performing great signs and wonders among the people.

So he left the country of the Chaldeans and for a time made his home in Haran. Then after the death of his father, God had him move to this country in which you now live.

He gave him no property in it, not even a foot of land, and yet He promised to give it to him and his descendants after him, as a permanent possession, although he had no child at that time.

until another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, ascended the throne.

and they said to Aaron, 'Make us gods to march in front of us, for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!'

No, you offered me the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rompha, the images you had made to worship! So I will now remove you beyond Babylon.'

Which of the prophets did your forefathers fail to persecute? They killed the prophets who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered Him,

Now those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.

You have no share or part in this matter, for your heart is not sincere in the sight of God.

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south by the road that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza; this is the desert road."

So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian official, a member of the court of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, her chief treasurer, who had come to Jerusalem to worship,

and now was on his way home. He was seated in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.

Now this was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep He was led away to be slaughtered, and just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, so He does not open His mouth.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away; the official saw him no more, for he went on home rejoicing;

Now Saul, as he was still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Now there was in Damascus a disciple named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" And he answered, "Yes, Lord, I am here."

And the Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called 'The Straight Street,' and ask at the house of Judas for one named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is now praying there.

Now he is here and has authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call upon your name."

Now when Saul arrived at Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples there, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was really a disciple.

Now, as Peter was going here and there among them all, he finally went down to God's people who lived at Lydda.

So Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ now cures you! Get up and make your bed!" And at once he got up.

Now at Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a colonel in what was known as the Italian regiment,

So now send men to Joppa and invite over a man named Simon, who is also called Peter.

Now while Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked for the way to Simon's house and had stopped at the gate;

and he said to him, "You know that it is against the law for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit one, but God has taught me not to call any man vulgar or ceremonially unclean;

So at once I sent for you, and you have been kind enough to come. So now we are all here in God's presence to listen to anything that the Lord has commanded you to say."

Then Peter opened his mouth and said, "Now I really see that God shows no partiality,

You know the story yourselves that spread all over Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John preached,

"No one can refuse the use of water, can he, for these to be baptized, since they have received the Holy Spirit just as we did ourselves?"

Now the apostles and the brothers all over Judea heard that the heathen too had accepted God's message.

When they heard this, they had no answer to make, but gave God the glory, saying, "So God has given even the heathen the repentance that leads to life."

Now the fugitives from the persecution that started over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, telling the message to none but Jews.

Now the news about them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and so they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

and after he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. Now for a whole year their meeting with the church lasted, and they taught large numbers of people. It was at Antioch too that the disciples first came to be known as "Christians."

Now just as Herod was going to bring him out, that is, the very night before, Peter was fastened with two chains and was sleeping between two soldiers, and the guards were at the door guarding the prison.

Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I really know that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting to do to me."

When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Now Herod cherished a bitter grudge against the people of Tyre and Sidon. So in a united body they came to meet him, and after winning the favor of Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended for its food supply upon the king's country.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who is called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen who was an intimate friend of the governor, and Saul.

Right now the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be so blind that you cannot see the sun for a time." And suddenly a dark mist fell upon him, and he kept groping about begging people to lead him by the hand.

As John was closing his career, he said, 'What do you take me to be? I am not the Christ; no, but He is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the shoes on His feet.'

and for many days He appeared to those who had come up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and they are now witnesses for Him to the people.

So now we are bringing you the good news about the promise that was made to our forefathers,

Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.'

So, my brothers, you must understand that through Him the forgiveness of your sins is now proclaimed to you,

Then Paul and Barnabas courageously spoke out, "God's message had to be spoken to you Jews first, but since you continue to thrust it from you and since you show yourselves unworthy to receive eternal life, now and here we turn to the heathen.

Now in the streets of Lystra a man used to sit who had no strength in his feet, who had been crippled from his birth, and had never walked.

Now the apostles and elders met to consider this matter.

After a lengthy discussion Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you that through me the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

and in this way He put no difference between us and them, because He cleansed their hearts by faith.

Then why do you now try to test God by putting on these disciples' necks a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we could bear?

Now Judas and Silas, as they were prophets themselves, in a lengthy talk encouraged and strengthened the brothers.

Now he went to Derbe and Lystra too. At Lystra there was a disciple named Timothy, whose mother was a Christian Jewess, but his father was a Greek.

Paul wanted this man to join him in his journey; so on account of the Jews in that district he took him and had him circumcised, for everybody knew that his father was a Greek.

But Paul at once shouted out to him, "Do yourself no harm, for we are all here!"

The jailer reported this message to Paul, saying, "The chiefs of the police court have sent orders to let you go. So now you may come out and go in peace."

Now they traveled on through Amphipolis and Apollonia until they reached Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue.

So they took him and brought him to the city auditorium and said, "May we know what this new teaching of yours is?

For some of the things you bring sound startling to us; so we want to know just what they mean."

(Now all the Athenians and foreign visitors in Athens used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to the latest new thing out.)

Though God overlooked those times of ignorance, He now commands all men everywhere to repent,