Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

about sin, because they do not believe in me;

But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

"In just a little while you will not see me any longer; and yet, in just a little while after you will see me again."

So some of His disciples said to one another, "What does He mean by telling us, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

So they kept saying, "What does He mean by saying, 'a little while'? We do not know what He is talking about."

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?

Up to this time you have not asked for anything as bearers of my name, but now you must keep on asking, and you will receive, that your cup of joy may be full to the brim.

"I have told you these things in allegories, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will plainly tell you about the Father.

At that time you will ask, as bearers of my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father for you,

His disciples said to Him, "Now you are talking plainly and not in allegory at all.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need that anyone should ask you questions. For this reason we believe that you have come from God."

Listen! A time is coming, yea, it is right here, when you will all be scattered to your homes and will leave me alone. And yet, I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world now, but only for those whom you have given me, because they are yours --

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 is now doomed to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil in it.

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to it.

"I make this petition, not for them only, but for all who ever come to believe in me through their message,

Righteous Father, although the world did not know you, I did know you, and these men have come to know that you sent me,

He said this that the statement He had just made might be fulfilled, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Must I not drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

Then the servant girl at the door said to Peter, "You too are not one of this man's disciples, are you?" He answered, "No, I am not."

Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to the world; I have always taught in the synagogues and in the temple where all the Jews are in the habit of meeting, and I have not spoken anything in secret.

But Simon Peter still stood warming himself. So they said to him, "You too are not one of His disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "No, I am not."

One of the high priest's slaves, who was a kinsman of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with Him?"

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's palace. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's palace themselves, in order not to be defiled, so as to be unfit to eat the Passover supper.

They retorted, "If He were not a criminal, we would not have turned Him over to you."

Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves, and try Him in accordance with your own law." Then the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to execute the death penalty on anyone."

Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and their high priests have turned you over to me. What have you done?"

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would have been fighting to keep me from being turned over to the Jews. But as a matter of fact, my kingdom does not come from such a source."

Then they all shouted back, "No! Not Him, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

Then Pilate said to Him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have it in my power to set you free or to crucify you?"

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

So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "You must not write, 'The king of the Jews,' but write, 'He said, I am the king of the Jews.'"

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.

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very important one, the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken down.

But when they came to Jesus, as they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs,

For this took place that this Scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of His will be broken."

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.

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 he stooped down and peered in and saw the bandages lying on the ground, but he did not go in.

but the handkerchief which had been over His face was not lying with the bandages, but was folded up by itself in another place.

For they had not previously understood the Scripture which said that He must rise from the dead.

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 said to her, "Stop clinging to me so, for I have not yet gone up to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

Now 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, Thomas, that you believe? Blessed be those who believe, even though they have not seen me!"

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

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We are going with you too." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

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

Then He said to them, "Set your net on the right side of the boat, and you will catch them." They did so, and they could not drag it in for the big catch of fish.

The rest of the disciples followed in the little boat, for they were not far from shore -- only about a hundred yards -- dragging in the net full of fish.

So Simon Peter got into the boat, and pulled the net ashore, full of big fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were so many, the net was not torn.

I most solemnly say to you, when you were young, you used to put on your own belt and go where you pleased, but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will put a belt on you and you will go where you do not please to go."

So the report got out among the brothers that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not tell him that he was not going to die; He said only, "If I wish him to wait until I come, what is that to you?"

There are many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were all written down in detail, I do not suppose that the world itself could hold the books that would have to be written.

And once while He was eating with them, He charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," He said,

He answered them, "It is not your business to learn times and dates which the Father has a right to fix,

They were perfectly astounded, and in bewilderment they continued to say, "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?

These men are not drunk as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

For David says of Him: 'I always kept my eyes upon the Lord, for He is at my right hand, so that I may not be removed.

For you will not forsake my soul to Hades. Nor will you let your Holy One experience decay.

he foresaw the resurrection of the Christ and told of it, for He was not forsaken to Hades, and His body did not undergo decay.

For David did not go up to heaven, but he himself says: 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

And so they continued to sell their property and goods and to distribute the money to all, as anyone had special need.

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

The result will be, that any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

But to keep it from spreading farther among the people, let us severely threaten them not to say anything at all to anyone else about this person."

So they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all about the name of Jesus.

So, after further threatening them, they turned them loose, because they could not find any way to punish them, on account of the people, because they all continued to praise God for what had taken place,

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.

and to put it at the disposal of the apostles; then distribution was continuously made to everyone in proportion to his need.

As long as it was unsold, was it not yours, and when it was sold, was not the money at your disposal? How could you have the heart to do such a thing! You did not lie to men but to God!"

Not one of those on the outside dared to associate with them, although the people continued to hold them in high regard,

But in the night the angel of the Lord threw open the jail doors and let them out, and said to them,

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

"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!"

and not for a single day did they stop teaching in the temple square and in private houses the good news of Jesus the Christ.

So the Twelve called together the whole body of the disciples, and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave off preaching the word of God to wait on tables.

but they could not cope with his good practical sense and the spiritual power with which he usually spoke.

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.

Then a famine spread all over Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our forefathers could not find the simplest food.

By taking a cunning advantage of our race he oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to expose their infants so that they should not live.

He supposed that his brothers would understand that God through his instrumentality was going to deliver them, but they did not.

'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

But our forefathers would not listen to him, but pushed him aside, and in their hearts they hankered after Egypt;

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!'

But the Most High does not live in buildings built by human hands. As the prophet says:

Was it not my hand that made them all?"'

you who received the law by order of the angels, and yet you did not obey it!"

Then he fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not charge this sin on the book against them!" On saying this he fell asleep in death.

for as yet He had not come upon any of them, but they had been baptized merely in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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

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.

His fellow-travelers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but could not see anyone.

Then Saul got up off the ground, but he could not see anything, although his eyes were wide open. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus,

and for three days he could not see, and he did not eat or drink anything.

And all who heard him were astounded and said, "Is not this the man who harassed those who called upon this name in Jerusalem, and has come here expressly for the purpose of putting them in chains and taking them back to the high priests?"