so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, “Not every one of you is clean.”)

The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one –

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

A jar full of sour wine was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop and lifted it to his mouth.

Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

I wrote the former account, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

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

But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets – that his Christ would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way.

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

Now as Peter was traveling around from place to place, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda.

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,