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Now I am no longer in the world. They are in the world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, guard them by the power of your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we are.

But now, I am coming to you; and I say these things while I am still in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

I don't ask you to take them out of the world, but to protect them from the Evil One.

"I pray not only for these, but also for those who will trust in me because of their word,

Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these people have known that you sent me.

but Kefa stood outside by the gate. So the other talmid, the one known to the cohen hagadol, went back out and spoke to the woman on duty at the gate, then brought Kefa inside.

Yeshua answered him, "If I said something wrong, state publicly what was wrong; but if I was right, why are you hitting me?"

Yeshua answered, "My kingship does not derive its authority from this world's order of things. If it did, my men would have fought to keep me from being arrested by the Judeans. But my kingship does not come from here."

But they yelled back, "No, not this man but Bar-Abba!" (Bar-Abba was a revolutionary.)

He went back into the headquarters and asked Yeshua, "Where are you from?" But Yeshua didn't answer.

On hearing this, Pilate tried to find a way to set him free; but the Judeans shouted, "If you set this man free, it means you're not a ‘Friend of the Emperor'! Everyone who claims to be a king is opposing the Emperor!"

They shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Put him to death on the stake!" Pilate said to them, "You want me to execute your king on a stake?" The head cohanim answered, "We have no king but the Emperor."

The Judeans' head cohanim therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, ‘The King of the Jews,' but ‘He said, "I am King of the Jews."'"

but when they got to Yeshua and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs.

After this, Yosef of Ramatayim, who was a talmid of Yeshua, but a secret one out of fear of the Judeans, asked Pilate if he could have Yeshua's body. Pilate gave his consent, so Yosef came and took the body away.

They both ran, but the other talmid outran Kefa and reached the tomb first.

Stooping down, he saw the linen burial-sheets lying there but did not go in.

also the cloth that had been around his head, lying not with the sheets but in a separate place and still folded up.

but Miryam stood outside crying. As she cried, she bent down, peered into the tomb,

As she said this, she turned around and saw Yeshua standing there, but she didn't know it was he.