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

His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

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

So when Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they retreated and fell to the ground.

He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, “I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”

Then the squad of soldiers with their commanding officer and the officers of the Jewish leaders arrested Jesus and tied him up.

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

So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

A jar full of sour wine was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop and lifted it to his mouth.

But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately.

Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.

Then they cast lots for them, and the one chosen was Matthias; so he was counted with the eleven apostles.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!”

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

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