That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, for prior to this they had been enemies.

While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood beside them in dazzling attire.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

“Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

(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.)

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

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

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”

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.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

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

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,