And, when he had said this, he added: "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him."

But Jesus meant that he was dead; they, however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.

Jesus had not then come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

But some of them said: "Could not this man, who gave sight to the blind man, have also prevented Lazarus from dying?"

I know that thou always headrest me; but I say this for the sake of the people standing near, so that they may believe that thou has sent me as thy Messenger."

Now he did not say this of his own accord; but, as High Priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation--

And not for the nation only, but also that he might unite in one body the Children of God now scattered far and wide.

In consequence of this, Jesus did not go about publicly among the Jews any more, but left that neighborhood, and went into the country bordering on the Wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their 'purification,' before the Festival began.

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, being in charge of the purse, used to take what was put in it.

The poor you always have with you, but you will not always have me."

Now great numbers of the Jews found out that Jesus was at Bethany; and they came there, not solely on his account, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

In truth I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains solitary; but, if it dies, it becomes fruitful.

"It was not for my sake that the voice came," said Jesus, "but for yours.

But, though Jesus had given so many signs of his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him,

Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;

But Jesus had proclaimed: "He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me;

When any one hears my teaching and pays no heed to it, I am not his judge; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

For I have not delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should deliver.

"You do not understand now what I am doing," replied Jesus, "but you will learn by and by."

"Then, Master, not my feet only," exclaimed Simon Peter, "but also my hands and my head."

"He who has bathed," replied Jesus, "has no need to wash, unless it be his feet, but is altogether clean; and you," he said to the disciples, "are clean, yet not all of you."

I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but this is in fulfillment of the words of Scripture--'He that is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

But no one at table understood why he said this to Judas.

My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the Jews--'You cannot come where I am going'--I now say to you.

"Where are you going, Master?" asked Peter. "I am going where you cannot now follow me," answered Jesus, "but you shall follow me later."

Do not you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work.

The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognize him, but you recognize him, because he is always with you, and is within you.

In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me; because I am living, you will be living also.

He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.

But the Helper--the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my Name--he will teach you all things, and will recall to your minds all that I have said to you.

But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.

I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father--he will bear testimony to me;

But I have spoken to you of these things that, when the time for them comes, you may remember that I told you about them myself.

I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me--'Where are you going?'

Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the Helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you.

I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

Yet when he--The Spirit of Truth--comes, he will guide you into all Truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of all that he hears; and he will tell you of the things that are to come.

In truth I tell you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will suffer pain, but your pain shall turn to joy.

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

You, in the same way, are sorry now; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy.

I have spoken to you of all this in figures; a time is coming, however, when I shall not speak any longer to you in figures, but shall tell you about the Father plainly.

I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou has given me, for they are thy own--

Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are.

But now I am to come to thee; and I am speaking thus, while still in the world, that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts.

I do not ask thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from Evil.

But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their Message,

But Jesus said to Peter: "Sheathe your sword. Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?"

"If I said anything wrong, give evidence about it," replied Jesus; "but if not, why do you strike me?"

From Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Government House. It was early in the morning. But they did not enter the Government House themselves, lest they should become 'defiled,' and so be unable to eat the Passover.

"My kingly power," replied Jesus, "is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the Jews; but my kingly power is not from the world."

"No, not this man," they shouted again, "but Barabbas!" This Barabbas was a robber.

"But we," replied the Jews, "have a Law, under which he deserves death for making himself out to be the Son of God."

But Jesus made no reply. So Pilate said to him: "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do not you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

This made Pilate anxious to release him; but the Jews shouted: "If you release that man, you are no friend of the Emperor! Any one who makes himself out to be a King is setting himself against the Emperor!"

At that the people shouted: "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" "What! shall I crucify your King?" exclaimed Pilate. "We have no King but the Emperor," replied the Chief Priests;

The Jewish Chief Priests said to Pilate: "Do not write 'The King of the Jews', but write what the man said--'I am the King of the Jews.'"

But Pilate answered: "What I have written, I have written."

So they said to one another: "Do not let us tear it, but let us cast lots for it, to see who shall have it." This was in fulfillment of the words of Scripture--'They shared my clothes among them, And over my clothing they cast lots.' That was what the soldiers did.

But, on coming to him, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

After this, Joseph of Ramah, a disciple of Jesus--but a secret one, owing to his fear of the Jews--begged Pilate's permission to remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him leave; so Joseph went and removed the body.

The two began running together; but the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and reached the tomb first.

Stooping down, he saw the linen wrappings lying there, but did not go in.

And the cloth which had been upon Jesus' head, not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up on one side, separately.

After saying this, she turned round, and looked at Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

"Do not hold me," Jesus said; "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my Brothers, and tell them that I am ascending to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called 'The Twin,' was not with them when Jesus came;

Then he said to Thomas: "Place your finger here, and look at my hands; and place your hand here, and put it into my side; and do not refuse to believe, but believe."

But these have been recorded that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God--and that, through your belief in his Name, you may have Life.

"I am going fishing." "We will come with you," said the others. They went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.

Just as day was breaking, Jesus came and stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was he.

But the rest of the disciples came in the boat (for they were only about a hundred yards from shore), dragging the net full of fish.

"In truth I tell you," he continued, "when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but, when you have grown old, you will have to stretch out your hands, while some one else puts on your girdle, and takes you where you do not wish."

So the report spread among the Brethren that that disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said "If it is my will that he should wait till I come, what has that to do with you?"

There are many other things which Jesus did; but, if every one of them were to be recorded in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not hold the books that would be written.

And once, when he had gathered them together, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the fulfillment of the Father's promise-- "that promise," he said, "of which you have heard me speak;

But you shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit shall have descended upon you, and shall be witnesses for me not only in Jerusalem, but throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

But there were some who said with a sneer: "They have had too much new wine."

But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold upon him.

But Peter added: "I have no gold or silver, but I give you what I have. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I bid you walk."

The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead--and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the Prophets.

But Heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy Prophets from the very first.

But, when they looked at the man who had been healed, standing there with them, they had nothing to say.

But, to prevent this thing from spreading further among the people, let us warn them not to speak in this Name any more to any one whatever."

But Peter and John replied: "Whether it is right, in the sight of God, to listen to you rather than to him--

There have indeed gathered together in this city against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you has consecrated the Christ, not Herod and Pontius Pilate only, but the nations and the people of Israel besides--

The whole body of those who had become believers in Christ were of one heart and mind. Not one of them claimed any of his goods as his own, but everything was held for the common use.

While it was unsold, was not it your own? and after it was sold, was not the money at your own disposal? How did you come to think of such a thing? You have lied, not to men, but to God!"

But of the rest no one ventured to join them. On the other hand, the people were full of their praise,

But, when the officers got there, they did not find them in the prison; so they returned and reported that,