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.

One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.

(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?”

So Pilate went back into the governor’s residence, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

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?”

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).

Pilate also had a notice written and fastened to the cross, which read: “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.

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.

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,

Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

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

For there was no one needy among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them and bringing the proceeds from the sales

So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated “son of encouragement”),

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.