But I have told you about these things in order that when the time comes for them to happen, you may remember that I told you of them. I did not tell you this at first because I was still staying with you.

But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me where I am going,

but your minds are full of sorrow because I have told you this.

Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.

I have much more to tell you, but you cannot take it in now,

but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world will be happy; you will grieve, but your grief will change to happiness.

When a woman is in labor she is sorrowful, for her time has come; but when the child is born, she forgets her pain in her joy that a human being has been brought into the world.

So you, too, are sorrowful now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will be happy, and no one will rob you of your happiness.

Hitherto you have not asked for anything as my followers, but now ask, and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.

"I have said all this to you in figurative language, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

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.

Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are.

But now I am coming to you, and I say this here in this world in order that they may have the happiness that I feel fully realized in their own hearts.

I do not ask you to take them away from the world, but to keep them from evil.

But Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. This other disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest, and he went on with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard,

Jesus replied, "If I have said anything wrong, testify to it; but if what I have said is true, why do you strike me?"

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

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

But it is your custom to have me release one man for you at Passover time. Do you want me therefore to release the king of the Jews for you?"

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

and he went back into the governor's house and said to Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus made no answer.

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!"

At that they shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Am I to crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor!"

So the Jewish high priests said to Pilate, "Do 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 fulfil what the Scripture says: "They divided my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots." This was what the soldiers did.

But when they came to Jesus they saw that he was dead already, and they did not break his legs,

but one of the soldiers thrust a lance into his side, and blood and water immediately flowed out.

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

and the handkerchief that had been over Jesus' face not on the ground with the bandages, but folded up by itself.

But Mary stood just outside the tomb, weeping. And as she wept she looked down into the tomb,

As she said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was he.

Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

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

So the rest of the disciples said to him, "We have seen the Master!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it!"

Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands, and take your hand and put it in my side, and be no longer unbelieving, but believe!"

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

But just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, though the disciples did not know that it was he.

I tell you, when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle and go where you pleased, but when you grow old, you will stretch our your hands and someone else will put a girdle on you and take you where you have no wish to go"

When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "But, Master, what about him?"

So the story spread 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, "If I wish him to wait till I come, what does it matter to you?"

And once when he ate with them, he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," he said,

"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the holy Spirit."

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

But others said derisively, "They have had too much new wine!"

But this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel,

But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified.

But God set aside the pain of death and raised him up, for death could not control him.

But as he was a prophet, and knew that God had promised him with an oath that he would put one of his descendants upon his throne,

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

But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!"

But you disowned the Holy, Righteous One. You asked to have a murderer released for you,

and killed the very source of life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can testify.

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

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.

But they ordered them out of the presence of the council and conferred together.

But to keep it from spreading farther among the people, let us warn them to say nothing to anyone else at all about this person."

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of him,

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,

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.

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

As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!"

None of the others dared to associate with them, but the people made much of them,

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

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

"We found the prison securely locked up, with the sentries on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one inside."

Then the commander and his men went and brought them back, but without using violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law highly regarded by all the people, got up in the council and ordered the men to be removed for a while,

For some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be a person of importance, and a group of men numbering some four hundred joined him. But he was killed and all his followers were dispersed and disappeared.

After him, at the time of the census, Judas of Galilee appeared, and raised a great following, but he too perished, and all his followers were scattered.

but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop it. You may actually find yourselves fighting God!"

But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia undertook to debate with Stephen,

but they could not meet his wisdom and the inspiration with which he spoke.

He gave him no property in it, not a single foot, but he promised to give it to him and his posterity after him permanently, though he had no children at that time.

The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,

But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt, and he sent our forefathers on their first visit there.

He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him as the means of delivering them, but they did not.

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

Yet our forefathers would not listen to him, but thrust him off, and their hearts turned back to Egypt,

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

But he, full of the holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

But they uttered a great shout and stopped their ears, and they rushed upon him all together,

But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism.

But when Simon saw that the holy Spirit was imparted through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

But Peter said to him, "Go to destruction with your money, for thinking you could buy God's gift with it!

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south, by the road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza." (The town is now deserted.)

But on his journey, as he was approaching Damascus, a sudden light flashed around him from heaven,

"But get up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you ought to do."

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

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell of this man, and the harm he has done to your people in Jerusalem.

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

but Saul found out about the plot. They watched the city gates day and night, in order to kill him,

but his disciples took him one night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket.

But Barnabas got hold of him and introduced him to the apostles, and he told them how on his journey he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how boldly he had spoken for the cause of Jesus at Damascus.

and spoke boldly for the Lord's cause, talking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they tried to kill him.

But Peter put them all out of the room. Then he knelt down and prayed, and then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, stand up!" She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.

But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed."