Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

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

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

This is the disciple who testifies about these things and has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

But Ananias replied, “Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,

About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”

About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.