"I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

"Lord," Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.

You heard me say to you, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here."

"I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.

He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What is the meaning of what he is saying, 'In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,' and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"

So they kept on repeating, "What is the meaning of what he says, 'In a little while'? We do not understand what he is talking about."

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

"I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Look, a time is coming -- and has come -- when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

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

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

Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one --

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Simon Peter and another disciple followed them as they brought Jesus to Annas. (Now the other disciple was acquainted with the high priest, and he went with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard.)

When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest's officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

Jesus replied, "If I have said something wrong, confirm what is wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why strike me?"

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the orchard with him?"

Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here."

Pilate asked, "What is truth?" When he had said this he went back outside to the Jewish leaders and announced, "I find no basis for an accusation against him.

But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"

So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look, here is the man!"

Jesus replied, "You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin."

(Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, here is your king!"

Now when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and made four shares, one for each soldier, and the tunic remained. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from top to bottom as a single piece.)

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, here is your son!"

He then said to his disciple, "Look, here is your mother!" From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, "It is completed!" Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.

So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you."

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he did so.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.

Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. (This was the disciple who had leaned back against Jesus' chest at the meal and asked, "Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?")

Jesus replied, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!"

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?"

This is the disciple who testifies about these things and has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, "Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?"

As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away).

for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry."

This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is, "Field of Blood.")

"For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his house become deserted, and let there be no one to live in it,' and 'Let another take his position of responsibility.'

Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us -- one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us."

Then they prayed, "Lord, you know the hearts of all. Show us which one of these two you have chosen

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia,

In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

"Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know --

For David says about him, 'I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

"Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.

Peter looked directly at him (as did John) and said, "Look at us!"

and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement at what had happened to him.

When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?

And on the basis of faith in Jesus' name, his very name has made this man -- whom you see and know -- strong. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.

And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.

so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and so that he may send the Messiah appointed for you -- that is, Jesus.

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved."

saying, "What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it.

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name."

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard."

When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said, "Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,

to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

and placing them at the apostles' feet. The proceeds were distributed to each, as anyone had need.

So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated "son of encouragement"),

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.