Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.

Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said. They know what I said.”

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand

Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?”

praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

He kept back for himself part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge; he brought only part of it and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

But a Pharisee whose name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the council and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time.