The thief comes not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came, that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and they shall become one flock, one Shepherd.

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one snatch them out of My hand.

They were seeking, therefore, again to seize Him; and He went forth out of their hands.

Now Jesus had spoken concerning his death; but they thought He spake of taking rest in sleep.

and He said, "Where have ye laid Him?" They say to Him, "Lord, come and see."

So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up His eyes, and said, "Father, I thank Thee, because Thou didst hear Me.

And I knew that Thou always hearest Me; but, because of the multitude standing around, I said it, that they may believe that Thou didst send Me."

From that day, therefore, they took counsel, that they might put Him to death.

Now the passover of the Jews was near; and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

They were, therefore, seeking for Jesus, and were saying one with another, while standing in the temple, "What think ye? That He will not come to the feast?"

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders, that, if any one knew where He was, he should show it, that they might seize Him.

They, therefore, made Him a supper there; and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with Him.

The great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.

But the high priests consulted, that they might slay Lazarus also;

These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him, and that they did these things to Him.

On this account also, the multitude met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign.

But, though He had done so many signs before them, they were not believing on Him;

On this account they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

"He hath blinded their eyes, and He hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I should heal them."

Yet, however, even from among the rulers, many believed on Him; but, because of the Pharisees, they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

for they loved the glory of men, rather than the glory of God.

Unless one abides in Me, he was cast forth as a branch, and withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Remember the word which I spake to you, 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

But all these things will they do to you for My name's sake; because they know not Him Who sent Me.

"Had I not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Had I not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin; but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father;

but this they do, that the word may be fulfilled, which has been written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.'

They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, an hour is coming, that every one who kills you will think that he is offering service to God.

And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor Me.

respecting sin, because they believe not on Me;

They said, therefore, "What is this that He saith, 'A little while?'??e know not what He saith!"

Jesus knew that they wished to ask Him, and He said to them, "Do ye inquire among yourselves about this that I said, 'A little while, and ye behold Me not, and again a little while, and ye will see Me!'

And this is the eternal life, that they know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou didst send.

I manifested 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.

Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou gavest Me are from Thee;

because the words which Thou gavest Me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from Thee, and believed that Thou didst send Me.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom Thou hast given Me; because they are Thine.

And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep, in Thine Own name, those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, even as we are.

But now I come to Thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy made full in themselves.

I have given them Thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

and in their behalf I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

that they may all be one, even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.

And the glory which Thou hast given to Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one:

I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and lovedst them, even as Thou didst love Me.

Father, as to what Thou hast given Me, I desire that they also maybe with Me, where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me; because Thou didst love Me before the founding of a world.

They answered Him, "Jesus, the Nazarene." Jesus saith to them, "I am He." And Judas also, who betrayed Him, was standing with them.

When, therefore, He said to them, "I am He," they went backward, and fell to the ground.

Again, therefore, He asked them, "Whom seek ye?" And they said, "Jesus, the Nazarene."

Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard, what I spake to them; behold, they know the things which I said."

And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said, therefore, to him, "Are you also one of His disciples?" He denied, and said, "I am not."

They led Jesus, therefore, from Caiaphas into the Praetorium; and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

They answered and said to him, "If this Man were not an evil-doer, we would not have delivered Him up to you."

They cried out, therefore, again, saying, "Not this Man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

and they kept coming to Him, and saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they were giving Him blows with a rod.

When, therefore, the high priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out, "Crucify! crucify!" Pilate says to them, "Take ye Him, and crucify Him; for I find not a crime in Him."

They, therefore, cried out, "Away with Him! away with Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate says to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The high priests answered, We have no king but Caesar!"

They took Jesus, therefore; and, bearing the cross for Himself, He went forth into the place called "Place of a Skull," which, in Hebrew, is called "Golgotha;"

where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst.

The soldiers, therefore, when they crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part; and also the coat. And the coat was without a seam, woven from the top throughout.

They said, therefore, one to another, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, 'They divided My garments among themselves, and upon My vesture did they cast lots.'" The soldiers, therefore, did these things.

There was set there a vessel full of vinegar; so, putting a sponge full of vinegar on hyssop, they bore it to His mouth.

The Jews, therefore, (since it was the Preparation), that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, (for the day of that sabbath was great), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away.

but, when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was already dead, they broke not His legs;

And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him Whom they pierced."

So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of Jews is to bury.

There, therefore, on account of the Preparation of the Jews (because the tomb was near), they laid Jesus.

She runs, therefore, and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them, "They took away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they laid Him!"

Peter, therefore, went forth, and the other disciple, and they were going to the tomb.

for as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead.

And they say to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She says to them, "Because they took away my Lord, and I know not where they laid Him!"

And, having said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples, therefore, rejoiced, when they saw the Lord.

Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained."

Simon Peter says to them, "I am going away to fish." They say to him, We also are coming with you." They went forth, and entered into a boat; and in that night they caught nothing.

Jesus, therefore, saith to them, "Little children, have ye anything to eat?" They answered Him, "No."

And He said to there, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and ye shall find." They cast it, therefore; and no longer were they able to draw it, for the multitude of the fishes.

But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits distant), dragging the net full of fishes.

When, therefore, they went out upon the land, they see a fire of coals there, and fish lying thereon, and bread.

So, when they breakfasted, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He says to Him, "Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I fondly love Thee." He saith to him, "Feed My lambs."

And there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, indeed, were they written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself would contain the books that would be written.

They, therefore, having come together, were asking Him, saying, "Lord, dost Thou at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?"

And, having said these things, while they were beholding, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him from their sight.

And, as they were gazing intently into the heaven, while He was ascending, behold, also two men stood by them in white apparel,

Then they returned to Jerusalem from a mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey.

And, when they entered, they went up into the upper-room, where they were abiding; both Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

And they proposed two; Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

And, praying, they said, "Thou, Lord, Who knowest the hearts of all men, show which of these two Thou didst choose,

And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

And, when the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled they were all together in one place;

and suddenly there came out of Heaven a sound, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, even as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

And they were amazed, and wondered, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans?

And they were all amazed, and perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"

And others, mocking, said, "They have been filled with new wine!"

yea, and on My servants and on My handmaidens in those days will I pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

And, hearing this, they were pricked in the heart, and said to Peter, and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren! what shall we do?"

and they were constantly attending the teaching of the apostles and the fellowship, and the breaking of bread, and the prayers.

and they were selling their possessions and goods, and were distributing them to all, according as any one had need.