I have a request to make for them. I make no request for the world, but only for those whom you have given me, for they are yours??10 all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine??nd they have done me honor.

As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true.

"It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me.

Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world.

Judas who betrayed him also knew the place, for Jesus often met his disciples there.

Then Jesus, as he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Who is it you are looking for?"

They answered, "Jesus of Nazareth." He said to them, "I am he." Judas who betrayed him was standing among them.

Then he asked them again, "Who is it you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

This was to fulfil the saying he had uttered, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it and struck at the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus.

and they took 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 Jews that it was for their interest that one man should die for the people.

Why do you question me? Ask those who have heard me what it was that I said to them. They will know what I have said."

When he said this, one of the attendants who stood near struck him and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "As you say, I am a king. It was for this that I was born and for this that I came to the world, to give testimony for truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice."

Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it were not given to you from above. So you are less guilty than the man who betrayed me to you."

This made Pilate try to find a way to let him go, but the Jews shouted, "If you let him go, you are no friend of the emperor's! Anyone who calls himself a king utters treason against 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 fulfil what the Scripture says: "They divided my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots." This was what the soldiers did.

So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, said to his mother, "There is your son!"

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other who had been crucified with him.

The man who saw it testifies to it??is testimony is true; he knows that he is telling the truth??o lead you also to believe.

Moreover, it says in another place, "They shall look at the man whom they pierced."

After this, Joseph, of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him remove Jesus' body, and Pilate gave him permission. So Joseph went and took the body down.

And Nicodemus also, who had first come to Jesus at night, went, taking a roll of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.

So she ran away and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple who was dear to Jesus, and said to them, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him."

Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first went inside too, and saw and was convinced.

Jesus said to her, "Why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing that he was the gardener, said to him, "If it was you, sir, that carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

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

Jesus said to him, "Is it because you have seen me that you believe? Blessed be those who believe without having seen me!"

Then the disciple who was dear to Jesus said to Peter, "It is the Master!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Master, he put on his clothes, for he had taken them off, and sprang into the sea.

Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." None of the disciples dared to ask him who he was, for they knew it was the Master.

Peter turned and saw following them the disciple who was very dear to Jesus, who at the supper leaned back on Jesus' breast and said, "Master, who is it that is going to betray you?"

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

So those who were present asked him, "Master, is this the time when you are going to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?"

and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

"Brothers, the prediction of the Scriptures had to come true that the holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide for the men that arrested Jesus??17 for he was one of our number and a share in this ministry of ours fell to his lot."

"So one of the men who has been associated with us all the time that the Lord Jesus moved about among us,

Then they proposed two men, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was known as Justus, and Matthias.

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

They were perfectly amazed and said in their astonishment, "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?

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

"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

He is Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and to whose resurrection we are all witnesses.

"Therefore the whole nation of Israel must understand that God has declared this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

for the promise of it belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those far away whom the Lord our God calls to him."

constantly praising God and respected by all the people. And every day the Lord added people who were saved to their number.

when a man who had been lame from his birth was carried by. He used to be placed every day at what was known as the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, to beg from the people on their way into the Temple,

and recognized him as the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were perfectly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has done this honor to his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go.

It is by his power and through faith in him that this man whom you see and recognize has been made strong again, and it is faith inspired by him that has given him the perfect health you all see.

Why, all the prophets from Samuel down, who have spoken, have also foretold these days.

But many of those who had heard what they said believed it, and their number grew to be about five thousand.

with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who belonged to the high priest's family.

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."

and seeing the man who had been cured standing beside them, they had nothing to say.

But after further threats they let them go, as they could find no way to punish them, on account of the people, who were all giving honor to God for what had happened,

for the man on whom this wonder of healing had been done was more than forty years old.

When they heard it, with one impulse they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, it was you who made heaven, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them,

and who said through the holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David, your slave, " 'Why did the heathen rage, And the peoples form vain designs?

For they have assembled here in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.

No one among them was in any want, for any who owned lands or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sale

Joseph, a Levite, and a native of Cyprus, whom the apostles had named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement,

But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property,

When Ananias heard these words he fell down and expired, and everyone who heard them spoken was appalled.

Peter said to her, "How could you two agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? There at the door are the footsteps of the men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out also."

And the whole church and all who heard this were appalled.

Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds would come in bringing sick people and those who were troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.

But the attendants who went for them could not find them in the jail, and they came back and reported,

We and the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him are witnesses to these things."

You, brothers, must pick out from your number seven men of good standing, who are wise and full of the Spirit, and we will put them in charge of this matter,

This plan met the approval of the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, who had been a convert to Judaism.

Then they brought forward false witnesses, who said, "This man is constantly saying things against this holy place and against the Law,

Everyone who sat in the council fixed his eyes on him, and they saw that his face was like that of an angel.

until another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, became ruler of Egypt.

Seeing one of them being imposed upon, he interfered and defended the man who was being ill treated, striking down the Egyptian.

But the aggressor thrust him off, saying, 'Who made you our ruler and judge?

The Moses whom they had refused, saying to him, 'Who made you our ruler and judge?' God sent both to rule and to deliver them, with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

It was he who brought them out of Egypt, and did wonders and signs there, and at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the desert.

This was the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will make a prophet rise from among your brothers to teach you, just as he made me rise.'

It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live.

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

In the desert our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony built like the model Moses had seen, just as he who spoke to him told him to make it.

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

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

for with loud cries foul spirits came out of many who had been possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame people were cured.

There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions.

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

His sentence ended in his humiliation. Who will tell the story of his posterity? For his life is perished from the earth."

"Tell me, of whom is the prophet speaking?" said the eunuch to Philip, "Of himself, or of someone else?"

and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there who belonged to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

"Who are you, sir?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," said the voice.

He is here with authority to arrest everyone who calls upon your name."

Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

Everyone was astonished, and said, "Is not he the man who made such havoc of the people in Jerusalem who call upon that name, and who came here especially for the purpose of arresting such persons and taking them before the high priests?"

But Saul grew more and more powerful, and bewildered the Jews who lived in Damascus by his proofs that Jesus was the Christ.

There he found a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years.

And everybody who lived in Lydda or in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

He was a devout man, who feared God, as did all the members of his household. He was liberal in charities to the people, and always prayed to God.