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

After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

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

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”

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.

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

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

They replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He told them, “I am he.” (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.)

Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him.”

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.

They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

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

So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, “Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

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.

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

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