Book of Common Prayer

The Jewish Leaders Jail Peter And John For Proclaiming The Resurrection

4 And while they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple [guard] and the Sadducees suddenly-came-upon them, ² being greatly-disturbed because of their teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection from the dead in^[a] Jesus. ³ And they put their hands on them, and put them in jail^[b] until the next day. For it was already evening. ⁴ But many of the ones having heard the word believed. And the number of the men became about five thousand.

Peter Responds: Jesus, Whom You Crucified And God Raised, Healed This Man

⁵ And it came about on the next day that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem— ⁶ and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. ⁷ And having stood them in the middle, they were inquiring, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” ⁸ Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people, and elders: ⁹ If we are being examined today for a good-deed to a weak^[c] man, by what means^[d] this one has been restored, ¹⁰ let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene— Whom you crucified, Whom God raised from the dead— by this One^[e] this one stands before you healthy. ¹¹ This One is the stone— the One having been treated-with-contempt^[f] by you, the builders; the One having become the head^[g] of the corner. ¹² And there is no salvation in^[h] any other, for neither is there another name under heaven having been given among people by which we must be saved”.

I Have Told You In Advance So That You May Not Fall

16 “I have spoken these things to you in order that you may not be caused-to-fall. ² They will make you put-out-of-the-synagogue ones. Indeed, an hour is coming for everyone having killed you to think that he is offering service^[a] to God. ³ And they will do these things because they did not know the Father nor Me. ⁴ But I have spoken these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them.

It Is Better That I Go Away, For I Will Send You The Helper To Convict The World

“Now I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵ But now I am going to the One having sent Me. And none of you is asking Me, ‘Where are You going?’, ⁶ but grief has filled your heart because I have spoken these things to you. ⁷ But I tell you the truth— it is better^[b] for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you. ⁸ And having come, that One will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment— ⁹ concerning sin, because^[c] they are not believing in Me; ¹⁰ and concerning righteousness, because^[d] I am going to the Father and you are no longer going to see Me; ¹¹ and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

When The Helper Comes, He Will Guide You Into All Truth

¹² “I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now. ¹³ But when that One, the Spirit of truth, comes— He will guide you in all the truth. For He will not speak from Himself, but He will speak whatever He will hear. And He will declare to you the things coming. ¹⁴ That One will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵ All^[e] that the Father has is Mine. For this reason I said that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you.