When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished ??only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

But now I come to thee (I speak thus in the world that they may have my joy complete within them).

As thou hast sent me into the world, so have I sent them into the world,

and for their sake I consecrate myself that they may be consecrated by the truth.

Nor do I pray for them alone, but for all who believe in me by their spoken word;

may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

Yea, I have given them the glory thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one ??23 I in them and thou in me ??that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

he answered, "I told you that I am he; if it is me you are looking for, let these men get away"

(this was to fulfil his own word: 'I did not lose a single one of those whom thou didst give me').

whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

Why ask me? Ask my hearers what I have said to them; they know what I said."

"If I have said anything wrong," replied Jesus, "prove it; if I said what was true, why strike me?"

Jesus replied, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did other people tell you about me?"

"Am I a Jew?" said Pilate. "Your own nation and the high priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere."

"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

Then Pilate said, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know it is in my power to release you or to crucify you?"

Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

they said to themselves, "Don't let us tear it. Let us draw lots to see who gets it" (that the scripture might be fulfilled, they distributed my clothes among them, and drew lots for my raiment). This was what the soldiers did.

He who saw it has borne witness (his witness is true; God knows he is telling the truth), that you may believe.

"Woman," they said to her, "why are you sobbing?" She said, "Because they have taken away my master, and I do not know where they have put him!"

"Woman," said Jesus, "why are you sobbing? Who are you looking for?" Supposing he was the gardener, she said, "Oh, sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you put him, and I will remove him."

Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"

Jesus then repeated, "Peace be with you! As the Father sent me forth, I am sending you forth."

and when the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord," he said, "Unless I see his hands with the mark of the nails, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it."

Then he said to Thomas, "Look at my hands, put your finger here; and put your hand here into my side; cease your unbelief and believe."

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

Jesus said to him, "You believe because you have seen me? Blessed be those who believe though they have never seen me."

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus.

Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus.

For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

(he said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God); then he added, "Follow me."

Jesus replied, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you? Follow me yourself."

IN my former volume, Theophilus, I treated all that Jesus began by doing and teaching

Also, as he ate with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father promised ??"for what you have heard me speak of," said he;

You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

"My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

Now it is written in the book of psalms, Desolate be his residence, may no one dwell in it: also, let another man take over his charge.

No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel ??17 In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:

on my very slaves and slave-girls in those days will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand.

My heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very flesh will rest in hope,

because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay.

Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, thou wilt fill me with delight in thy presence.

For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you,

and that the Lord may send Jesus your long-decreed Christ,

for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.

So now, O Lord, consider the threats of these men, and grant that thy servants may be perfectly fearless in speaking thy word,

Thus Joseph, who was surnamed Barnabas or (as it may be translated) 'Son of Encouragement' by the apostles, a Levite of Cypriote birth,

"Tell me," said Peter, "did you only sell the land for such and such a sum?" "Yes," she said, "that was all we sold it for."

whereas, if it really springs from God, you will be unable to put them down. You may even find yourselves fighting God!"

But,' said God, 'I will pass sentence on the nation that has made them slaves, and then they will get away to worship me in this Place.'

"Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"

I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I have heard their groans, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you back to Egypt.'

(This was the Moses who told the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me.')

So God turned from them, abandoning them to the worship of the starry Host ??as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer me victims and sacrifices during the forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Heaven is my throne, the earth is a footstool for my feet! What house would you build me? saith the Lord. On what spot could I settle?

Did not my hand make all this?

So they stoned Stephen, who called on the Lord, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

saying, "Let me share this power too, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the holy Spirit."

Simon replied, "Beseech the Lord for me! Pray that nothing you have said may befall me!"

he asked. "Why, how can I possibly understand it," said the eunuch, "unless some one puts me on the right track?" And he begged Philip to get up and sit beside him.

As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

"Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me.

"But, Lord," Ananias answered, "many people have told me about all the mischief this man has done to thy saints at Jerusalem!

But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

So Ananias went off and entered the house, laying his hands on him with these words, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord, by Jesus who appeared to you on the road, to let you regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

At Joppa there was a disciple called Tabitha (which may be translated Dorcas, or 'Gazelle'), a woman whose life was full of good actions and of charitable practices.

But Peter said, "No, no, my Lord; I have never eaten anything common or unclean."

To them Peter said, "You know yourselves it is illegal for a Jew to join or accost anyone belonging to another nation; but God has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean,

and so I have come without any demur when I was sent for. Now I want to know why you sent for me?"

"Three days ago," said Cornelius, "at this very hour I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when a man stood before me in shining dress,

"I was in the town of Joppa at prayer," he said, "and in a trance I saw a vision ??a vessel coming down like a huge sheet lowered from heaven by the four corners. It came down to me,

Also I heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

I said, 'No, no, my Lord; nothing common or unclean has ever passed my lips.'

But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'

At that very moment three men reached the house where I was living, sent to me from Caesarea.

The Spirit told me to have no hesitation in accompanying them; these six brothers went with me as well, and we entered the man's house.

and the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and put on your sandals." He did so. Then said the angel, "Put on your coat and follow me."

Then Peter came to his senses and said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.'

And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'

has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

So you must understand, my brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through him,

When they had finished speaking, James spoke. "Brothers," he said, "listen to me.

that the rest of men may seek for the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, saith the Lord,

Hence, in my opinion, we ought not to put fresh difficulties in the way of those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

When she was baptized, along with her household, she begged us, saying, "If you are convinced I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." She compelled us to come.

Then taking him to the Areopagus they asked, "May we know what is this novel teaching of yours?

Paul was just on the point of opening his lips to reply, when Gallio said to the Jews, "If it had been a misdemeanour or wicked crime, there would be some reason in me listening to you,O Jews.