My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

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 praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

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?”

and he went back into the governor’s residence and said to Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

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

And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage,

God exalted him to his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,

saying, “Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

He gave her his hand and helped her get up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.

When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying, “So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’