come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given
me, that they may be one, as we are, (12)While I was with them, I kept
them in thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I watched over and
none of them perished, except the son of perdition, that the scripture
might be fulfilled. (13)And now I come to thee; and these things I
speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in them. (14)I
have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are
not of the world, as I am not of the world. (15)I pray not that thou
shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep
them from the evil. (16)They are not of the world, as I am not of the
world. (17)Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth. (18)As thou
didst send me into the world, I also sent them into the world. (19)And
for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in
the truth. (20)And I pray not for these only, but also for those who
believe on me through their word; (21)that all may be one; as thou,
Father, in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the
world may believe that thou didst send me. (22)And the glory which
thou hast given to me I have given to them, that they may be one, as
we are one; (23)I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected
into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst
them as thou lovedst me.
(24)Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they
also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given
me; because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
(25)Righteous Father! And the world knew thee not! But I knew thee,
and these knew that thou didst send me; (26)and I made known to them
thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst
me may be in them, and I in them.
XVIII.
HAVING spoken these words, Jesus went out with his disciples beyond
the brook Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered and his
disciples. (2)And Judas also, his betrayer knew the place; because
Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
(3)Judas therefore, having received the band and officers from the
chief priests and Pharisees, comes thither with torches and lamps and
weapons. (4)Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming
upon him, went forth and said to them: Whom do ye seek? (5)They
answered him: Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus says to them: I am he. And
Judas also, his betrayer, was standing with them.
(6)When therefore he said to them, I am he, they went backward, and
fell to the ground.
(7)Again therefore he asked them: Whom do ye seek? And they said:
Jesus the Nazarene. (8)Jesus answered: I told you that I am he; if
therefore ye seek me, let these go their way; (9)that the saying might
be fulfilled, which he spoke: Of those whom thou hast given me, I lost
none.
(10)Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and smote the servant of
the high priest, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was
Malchus. (11)Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the
sheath. The cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?
(12)So the band, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took
Jesus and bound him, (13)and led him away to Annas first; for he was
father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. (14)And it
was Caiaphas who counseled the Jews, that it is expedient that one man
should die for the people.
(15)And Simon Peter and the other disciple followed Jesus. That
disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the
court of the high priest. (16)But Peter was standing at the door
without. Therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high
priest, went out and spoke to her that kept the door, and brought in
Peter. (17)Then the damsel that kept the door says to Peter: Art not
thou also one of this man's disciples? He says: I am not.
(18)And the servants and the officers were standing there, having made
a fire of coals, because it was cold, and were warming themselves; and
Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.
(19)The high priest therefore asked Jesus concerning his disciples,
and concerning his teaching. (20)Jesus answered him: I have spoken
openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the
temple, where all the Jews assemble; and I spoke nothing in secret.
(21)Why askest thou me? Ask those who have heard, what I spoke to
them. Behold, these know what things I said.
(22)And when he had said this, one of the officers who was standing by
gave Jesus a blow on the face, saying: Answerest thou the high priest
so? (23)Jesus answered him: If I spoke evil, bear witness of the evil;
but if well, why dost thou smite me?
(24)Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. (25)And Simon
Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him:
Art thou also one of his disciples? He denied, and said: I am not.
(26)One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of him
whose ear Peter cut off, says: Did not I see thee in the garden with
him? (27)Again therefore Peter denied; and immediately a cock crowed.
(28)Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the Governor's palace; and
it was early; and they themselves went not into the palace, that they
might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. (29)Pilate therefore
went out to them, and said: What accusation do ye bring against this
man? (30)They answered and said to him: If this man were not a
malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee. (31)Pilate
therefore said to them: Do ye take him, and judge him according to
your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to
put any one to death; (32)that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled,
which he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he should die.
(33)Pilate therefore entered into the palace again, and called Jesus,
and said to him: Art thou the King of the Jews? (34)Jesus answered:
Dost thou say this of thyself, or did others tell thee concerning me?
(35)Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thine own nation, and the chief
priests, delivered thee up to me. What didst thou? (36)Jesus answered:
My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my
servants would fight, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews;
but now is my kingdom not from hence. (37)Pilate therefore said to
him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest it; because I
am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come
into the world, that I may bear witness to the truth. Every one that
is of the truth hears my voice.
(38)Pilate says to him: What is truth? And having said this, he went
out again to the Jews, and says to them: I find no fault in him.
(39)But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one at the
passover. Do ye desire therefore that I release to you the King of the
Jews? (40)They all therefore cried out again, saying: Not this one,
but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
XIX.
THEN therefore Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him. (2)And the
soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and put on
him a purple robe; and they came to him, (3)and said: Hail, King of
the Jews! And they gave him blows on the face.
(4)Pilate went forth again, and says to them: Behold, I bring him
forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. (5)Jesus
therefore came forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple
robe. And he says to them: Behold the man!
(6)When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they
cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Do
ye take him, and crucify him; for I find no fault in him. (7)The Jews
answered him: We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because
he made himself the Son of God.
(8)When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid.
(9)And he went again into the palace, and says to Jesus: Whence art
thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. (10)Then says Pilate to him: Dost
thou not speak to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release
thee, and have power to crucify thee? (11)Jesus answered: Thou wouldst
have no power against me, except it were given thee from above.
Therefore he that delivers me to thee has the greater sin.
(12)Thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out,
saying: If thou let this man go, thou art not a friend of Caesar.
Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.
(13)When therefore Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus forth,
and sat down on the judgment-seat in a place called the Pavement, and
in Hebrew, Gabbatha. (14)And it was the preparation of the passover,
and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews: Behold your king!
(15)But they cried out: Away with him, away with him, crucify him.
Pilate says to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests
answered: We have no king but Caesar. (16)Then therefore he delivered
him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
(17)And bearing his cross he went forth into the place called Place of
a skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha; (18)where they crucified
him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the
midst. (19)And Pilate wrote also a title, and put it on the cross. And
the writing was: JESUS THE NAZARENE THE KING OF THE JEWS.
(20)This title therefore many of the Jews read; because the place
where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city, and it was written in
Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. (21)Therefore said the chief priests of
the Jews to Pilate: Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said,
I am King of the Jews. (22)Pilate answered: What I have written, I
have written.
(23)Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his garments,
and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat. And
the coat was without a seam, woven from the top throughout. (24)They
said therefore to one another: Let us not rend it, but cast lots for
it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which
says:
They parted my garments among them.
And for my vesture they cast lots.
These things the soldiers did. (25)And there were standing by the
cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene. (26)Jesus therefore seeing his mother,
and the disciple whom he loved standing by, says to his mother: Woman,
behold thy son! (27)Then he says to the disciple: Behold thy mother!
And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
(28)After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, that
the scripture might be accomplished, says: I thirst. (29)Now there was
set a vessel full of vinegar; and they, having filled a sponge with
vinegar, and put it on a hyssop-stalk, bore it to his mouth. (30)When
Jesus therefore received the vinegar, he said: It is finished; and he
bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
(31)The Jews therefore, since it was the preparation, that the bodies
might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath day
was a great day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and
they be taken away. (32)The soldiers came, therefore, and broke the
legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him.
(33)But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead,
they broke not his legs. (34)But one of the soldiers with a spear
pierced his side, and forthwith there came out blood and water.
(35)And he that has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true,
and he knows that he says what is true, that ye also might believe.
(36)For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be
fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken. (37)And again another
scripture says: They shall look on him whom they pierced.
(38)And after this, Joseph from Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take
away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore,
and took away the body of Jesus. (39)And there came also Nicodemus,
who at the first came to Jesus by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh
and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight. (40)They took therefore the
body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the
custom of the Jews to prepare for burial.
(41)And in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in
the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no one was yet laid. (42)There
they laid Jesus therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews,
because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
XX.
AND on the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene comes early, while
it is yet dark, to the sepulchre, and sees the stone taken away out of
the sepulchre. (2)She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter, and to
the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and says to them: They took away
the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they laid him.
(3)Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went
to the sepulchre. (4)And the two ran together; and the other disciple
outran Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. (5)And stooping down he
sees the linen cloths lying; yet he went not in. (6)Then comes Simon
Peter following him; and he went into the sepulchre, and sees the
linen cloths lying, (7)and the napkin that was about his head not
lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by
itself. (8)Then therefore the other disciple, who came first to the
sepulchre, went in also; and he saw, and believed. (9)For not even yet
did they know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
(10)The disciples therefore went away again to their own home. (11)And
Mary was standing by the sepulchre without, weeping. So, as she wept,
she stooped clown into the sepulchre, (12)and beholds two angels in
white, sitting the one at the head and the other at the feet, where
the body of Jesus lay. (13)And they say to her: Woman, why weepest
thou? She says to them: Because they took away my Lord, and I know not
where they laid him.
(14)Having said this, she turned back and beholds Jesus standing, and
knew not that it was Jesus. (15)Jesus says to her: Woman, why weepest
thou? Whom dost thou seek? She, supposing that it was the gardener,
says to him: Sir, if thou didst bear him hence, tell me where thou
laidest him, and I will take him away. (16)Jesus says to her: Mary!
Turning, she says to him in Hebrew: Rabboni! (which is to say,
Teacher!) (17)Jesus says to her: Touch me not; for I have not yet
ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say to them: I
ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.
(18)Mary the Magdalene comes bringing word to the disciples, that she
has seen the Lord, and that he spoke these things to her.
(19)When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the
week, the doors having been shut, where the disciples were assembled,
for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst; and he says
to them: Peace be to you. (20)And having said this, he showed them his
hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced therefore, when they saw
the Lord.
(21)Jesus therefore said to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father
has sent me, I also send you. (22)And having said this, he breathed on
them, and says to them: Receive the Holy Spirit. (23)Whosesoever sins
ye remit, they are remitted to them; and whosesoever ye retain, they
are retained.
(24)But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them
when Jesus came. (25)The other disciples therefore said to him: We
have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I see in his hands the
print of the nails, and thrust my finger into the print of the nails,
and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
(26)And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas
with them. Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst,
and said: Peace be to you. (27)After that, he says to Thomas: Reach
hither thy finger, and see my hands; and reach thy hand, and thrust it
into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. (28)Thomas answered
and said to him: My Lord, and my God. (29)Jesus says to him: Because
thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Happy they who saw not, and
have believed!
(30)Many other signs also did Jesus in the presence of his disciples,
which are not written in this book. (31)But these are written, that ye
might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
believing ye may have life in his name.
XXI.
AFTER these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at
the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself in this manner.
(2)There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and
Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two
others of his disciples. (3)Simon Peter says to them: I go a fishing.
They say to him: We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered
into the ship; and in that night they caught nothing.
(4)But when morning was now come, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the
disciples knew not that it was Jesus. (5)Jesus therefore says to them:
Children, have ye anything to eat? They answered him: No. (6)And he
said to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall
find. They cast it therefore; and now they were not able to draw it,
for the multitude of the fishes.
(7)Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved says to Peter: It is the
Lord. Simon Peter therefore, hearing that it is the Lord, girded on
his outer garment (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea.
(8)And the other disciples came in the boat (for they were not far
from land, but about two hundred cubits off), dragging the net with
the fishes.
(9)When therefore they went out upon the land, they see a fire of
coals there, and a fish lying thereon, and bread. (10)Jesus says to
them: Bring of the fishes which ye just now caught. (11)Simon Peter
went on board, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, a
hundred and fifty and three; and though there were so many, the net
was not broken.
(12)Jesus says to them: Come hither, and break your fast. And none of
the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it is the
Lord. (13)Jesus comes, and takes the bread and gives to them, and the
fish likewise. (14)This the third time already, Jesus manifested
himself to his disciples, after he was risen from the dead.
(15)When therefore they had broken their fast, Jesus says to Simon
Peter: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me more than these? He says to
him: Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him: Feed my
lambs.
(16)He says to him again a second time: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest
thou me? He says to him: Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He
says to him: Tend my sheep.
(17)He says to him the third time: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou
me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Lovest
thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things; thou
knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him: Feed my sheep.
(18)Verily, verily, I say to thee, when thou wast young, thou didst
gird thyself, and walk whither thou wouldst; but when thou shalt be
old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee,
and lead thee whither thou wouldst not. (19)And this he spoke,
signifying by what manner of death he should glorify God.
And having spoken this, he says to him: Follow me. (20)Peter, turning
about, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who also at the
supper leaned back on his breast, and said: Lord, who is he that
betrays thee? (21)Peter seeing him says to Jesus: Lord, and what shall
this man do? (22)Jesus says to him: If I will that he remain till I
come, what is it to thee? Do thou follow me.
(23)This saying therefore went abroad among the brethren, that that
disciple should not die. And Jesus said not to him, that he should not
die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is it to thee?
(24)This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote
these things; and we know that his testimony is true. (25)And there
are also many other things which Jesus did; and if they should be
written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not
contain the books that should be written.
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
I.
THE former narration I made, O Theophilus, concerning all things that
Jesus began both to do and to teach, (2)until the day when he was
taken up, after he had given commandment, through the Holy Spirit, to
the apostles whom he chose; (3)to whom also he showed himself living,
after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, during forty days
appearing to them, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of
God.
(4)And, being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to
depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father,
which ye heard from me; (5)for John indeed immersed in water; but ye
shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit, not many days hence.
(6)They therefore, having come together[1:6], asked him, saying: Lord,
wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? (7)And he
said to them: It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the
Father appointed by his own authority[1:7]. (8)But ye shall receive
power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and ye shall be my
witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and Samaria, and unto
the utmost part of the earth.
(9)And having spoken these things, while they beheld he was borne up,
and a cloud received him out of their sight. (10)And while they were
looking intently into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them
in white apparel; (11)who also said: Men of Galilee, why stand ye
looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye saw him going into heaven.
(12)Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet,
which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey. (13)And when they
came in, they went up into the upper room, where were abiding both
Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew
and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas
the brother of James. (14)These all continued with one accord in
prayer, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
(15)And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and
said (the number of names together was about a hundred and twenty):
(16)Men, brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should be
fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before
concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus.
(17)Because he was numbered with us, and obtained the office of this
ministry.--(18)Now this man purchased a field with the wages of
iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all
his bowels gushed out. (19)And it became known to all who dwell at
Jerusalem; so that that field was called, in their own tongue,
Aceldama, that is, Field of blood.--(20)For it is written in the book
of Psalms:
Let his habitation be made desolate,
And let no one dwell therein.
And:
Let another take his office[1:20].
(21)Therefore, of these men, who accompanied us all the time that the
Lord Jesus went in and out among us, (22)beginning from John's
immersion, unto the day when he was taken up from us, must one be made
a witness with us of his resurrection.
(23)And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed
Justus, and Matthias. (24)And they prayed, saying: Thou, Lord, who
knowest the hearts of all, show which of these two thou didst choose,
(25)that he may take part in this ministry and apostleship, from which
Judas by transgression fell away, that he might go to his own place.
(26)And they gave their lots[1:26]; and the lot fell upon Matthias;
and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
II.
AND when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one
accord in one place. (2)And suddenly there came a sound out of heaven
as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they
were sitting. (3)And there appeared to them tongues as of fire,
distributed among them; and it sat upon each of them. (4)And they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
(5)Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, from every
nation under heaven. (6)And this being noised abroad[2:6], the
multitude came together, and were confounded, because every man heard
them speak in his own language. (7)And all were amazed, and wondered,
saying one to another Behold, are not all these who speak Galilaeans?
(8)And how do we hear, every man in our own tongue, wherein we were
born, (9)Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who inhabit
Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, (10)Phrygia and
Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of
Rome, both Jews and proselytes, (11)Cretes and Arabians, hear them
speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God? (12)And all were
amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another: What may this mean?
(13)But others mocking said: They are filled with sweet wine.