My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,<n id="1" /> and no one can snatch<n id="2" /> them from my Father&#8217;s hand.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees<n id="1" /> had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus<n id="2" /> was should report it, so that they could arrest<n id="3" /> him.)<n id="4" />p>

For I have not spoken from my own authority,<n id="1" /> but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me<n id="2" /> what I should say and what I should speak.

Because Jesus<n id="1" /> knew that the Father had handed all things over to him,<n id="2" /> and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know<n id="1" /> that I love the Father.<n id="2" /> Get up, let us go from here.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

I am praying<n id="1" /> on behalf of them. I am not praying<n id="2" /> on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.<n id="3" />

When Jesus<n id="1" /> had said this, one of the high priest&#8217;s officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Is that the way you answer the high priest?&#8221;

and he went back into the governor&#8217;s residence<n id="1" /> and said to Jesus, &#8220;Where do you come from?&#8221; But Jesus gave him no answer.

All<n id="1" /> of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages<n id="2" /> as the Spirit enabled them.<n id="3" />p>

And now, Lord, pay attention to<n id="1" /> their threats, and grant<n id="2" /> to your servants<n id="3" /> to speak your message<n id="4" /> with great courage,<n id="5" />

God exalted him<n id="1" /> to his right hand as Leader<n id="2" /> and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.<n id="3" />

And we are witnesses of these events,<n id="1" /> and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey<n id="2" /> him.&#8221;p>

He thought his own people<n id="1" /> would understand that God was delivering them<n id="2" /> through him,<n id="3" /> but they did not understand.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit<n id="1" /> was given through the laying on of the apostles&#8217; hands, offered them money,

saying, &#8220;Give me this power<n id="1" /> too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.&#8221;

He gave<n id="1" /> her his hand and helped her get up. Then he called<n id="2" /> the saints and widows and presented her alive.

When they heard this,<n id="1" /> they ceased their objections<n id="2" /> and praised<n id="3" /> God, saying, &#8220;So then, God has granted the repentance<n id="4" /> that leads to life even to the Gentiles.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Immediately an angel of the Lord<n id="1" /> struck<n id="2" /> Herod<n id="3" /> down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.<n id="4" />

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled<n id="1" /> forty years.

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus<n id="1" /> from the dead, never<n id="2" /> again to be<n id="3" /> in a state of decay, God<n id="4" /> has spoken in this way: &#8216;<b><i>I will give youi>b><n id="5" /> <b><i>the holy and trustworthy promisesi>b><n id="6" /> <b><i>made to Davidi>b>.&#8217;<n id="7" />