Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast;

He who loves his life loses it; and he who regards not his life in this world shall keep it for eternal life.

Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"

"The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

So the words spoken by Isaiah, the prophet, were fulfilled. Lord, who hath believed our message, And to whom hath the Arm of the Lord been revealed?

"He who believes in me believes not in me, but in Him who sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me.

Like light am I come into the world, so that no one who believes in me may remain in darkness.

And if any one hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

He who rejects me, and does not receive my words, has indeed a judge. The message which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the Last Day,

because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak.

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.

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

Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

(For he knew who should betray him, for that reason he said that they were not every one of them clean.)

In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.

I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

"From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am.

In solemn truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send is receiving me; and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me."

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

So Simon Peter beckoned to him, saying, "Ask who it is about whom he is speaking."

So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

"It is that one," answered Jesus, " to whom I am going to give a piece of bread, after dipping it."

"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work.

"I tell you solemnly that he who trusts in me shall himself do the works that I am doing; and still greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

"It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him."

"He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

"But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you.

"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

"But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

"He who hates me hates my Father also.

"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.

"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

"I have made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.

"I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine,

I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

"Nor do I pray for them alone, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

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?"

so he asked them once more, "Whom are you looking for?" and they replied, "Jesus of Nazareth."

(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut off his right ear.

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.

"Why do you question me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them; these witnesses here know what I said."

"I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

"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."

"You would have no power over me," answered Jesus, "unless it had been given you from above. For this reason he who has betrayed me to you has the greater sin."

After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."

So they took Jesus, who went forth bearing his own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull??n the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha.

When Jesus saw his mother, and standing near her the disciple whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman behold your son."

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

And he who saw it has borne testimony, and his testimony is trustworthy, and he knows that he is telling the truth in order that you may believe.

And again another Scripture says, They shall look on him whom they have pierced.

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.

Nicodemus also (the one who visited Jesus by night, at first) came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds.

So she came running to Simon Peter and that other disciple whom Jesus loved, saying, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him!"

Then the other disciple also who arrived first at the tomb went inside, and he perceived and believed.

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.

"Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed," Jesus told him. "Blessed are those who, without seeing, yet believed."

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.

"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.

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?"

It is this disciple who bears testimony to these facts and who recorded them; and we know that his testimony is true.

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

and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

"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.

"It is necessary then that, of the men who have been associated with us during the whole time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

and they prayed, saying. "Thou, O Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show clearly which of these two men thou hast chosen to fill the place

The were beside themselves with wonder. "Are not these Galileans who are speaking?" they exclaimed.

And every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

"Therefore let the whole House of Israel know assuredly that Gods has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you have crucified."

"For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."

Then those who welcomed his message were baptized, and in that day about three thousand souls were added to them;

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.

"The God of Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go;

"And his name, on the ground of faith in his name, has made strong this man, whom you now see and know; yes, the faith that is through him has made this man sound and strong again, in the presence of you all.

"whom the heavens must receive until the time of restoration of all things. "God spoke of this ages ago, through the mouth of his holy prophets.

"and it shall be that every soul who will not listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

"be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand before you strong and well.

But since they saw the man standing with them who had been healed, they had nothing to answer.

For the man on whom this miracle of healing had been wrought was over forty years old.

And when they heard it they all lifted up their voices in prayer to God, saying. "O Sovereign Lord, who madest heaven and earth and sea, and all that in them is,

"who saidest through the Holy Spirit, by the lips of thy servant David, our forefather. "Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples form futile plans?

"In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel??28 "to do all that thy power and thy will had predetermined should be done.

Nor was there any one of them in want, for all who owned houses or lands would sell them and bring the price of the things that were sold, and lay it at the apostles' feet;

In this way Joseph, whom the apostles called Barnabas ("Son of Encouragement" is what it means), who was a native Cyprus,

But a man named Ananias who, with his wife Sapphira, sold a farm of his,

As Ananias heard these words he fell down and expired, and all who heard were awe-struck.

"Why was it," said Peter, "that you both agreed to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Lo, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out."

And great fear fell on all the church and upon all who had heard it.

The people of the towns near Jerusalem also continued to come in crowds, bringing their sick and those who were harried by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,