John 14:22

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

He took them, and ate in front of them.

You are witnesses of these things.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;

Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;

He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there.”

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’ ”

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast!” None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there.”

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”

Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;

Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: