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.”

At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.)

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?”

But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”

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

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called “The Stone Pavement” (Gabbatha in Aramaic).

(Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, here is your king!”

and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus’ head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself.

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed.

Mary Magdalene came and informed the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what Jesus had said to her.

Now Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book.

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is, “Field of Blood.”)

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us – one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.