Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”

I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.

Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, “Who are you looking for?”

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

They came up to him again and again and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly in the face.

Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.So they took Jesus,

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in.

Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went right into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen cloth lying there,

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he did so.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”

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

Reverential awe came over everyone, and many wonders and miraculous signs came about by the apostles.

And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

But many of those who had listened to the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage,

But the officers who came for them did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,