“We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied, “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”

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,

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

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.

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

Jesus replied, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!”

He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

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.

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon’s Portico.

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

Peter said to her, “Tell me, were the two of you paid this amount for the land?” Sapphira said, “Yes, that much.”