Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God?

He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

(This he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)

In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

If you had knowledge of me, you would have knowledge of my Father: you have knowledge of him now and have seen him.

Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

They said to him in answer, If the man was not a wrongdoer we would not have given him up to you.

(That the word of Jesus might come true, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)

Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.

Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.

For at that time they had no knowledge that the Writings said that he would have to come again from the dead.

Truly I say to you, When you were young, you made yourself ready and went wherever you had a desire to go: but when you are old, you will put out your hands and another will make you ready, and you will be taken where you have no desire to go.

Now this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after me.

So this saying went about among the brothers that this disciple would not undergo death: Jesus, however, did not say that he would not undergo death, but, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you?

And Jesus did such a number of other things that, if every one was recorded, it is my opinion that even the world itself is not great enough for the books there would be.

And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:

But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,

And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.

But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,

But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.

For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.

And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?

This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.

And on the Sabbath we went outside the town, by the river, where we had an idea that there would be a place of prayer; and, being seated, we had talk with the women who had come together.

But when Paul was about to say something, Gallio said to the Jews, If this was anything to do with wrongdoing or crime, there would be a reason for me to give you a hearing:

But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.

Now after these things were ended, Paul came to a decision that when he had gone through Macedonia and Achaia he would go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I have a desire to see Rome.

So then, because these things may not be doubted, it would be better for you to be quiet, and do nothing unwise.

Being sad most of all because he had said that they would not see his face again. And so they went with him to the ship.

And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.

The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him.

And when the argument became very violent, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in two by them, gave orders to the armed men to take him by force from among them, and take him into the army building.

And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.

For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.

Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.

But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him.

And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.

And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;

That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.

Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.

But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.

Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;

Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:

For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.

Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.

If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.

But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.

Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.

And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.

Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.

Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.

That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

But without your approval I would do nothing; so that your good works might not be forced, but done freely from your heart.

They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?