For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

and said to him, “Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who it is who gave you this authority?”

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?”

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

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 every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.

They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.