And He said to them, "What [are] these words which you are exchanging with one another as you walk, and you have a gloomy look?"

And He said to them, "What things?" So they said to Him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who proved to be a man [who was] a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.

And after the sixty-two weeks, the Anointed One shall be killed, and there is no judgment in Him. And He shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is to come: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed He shall appoint [the city] to desolations.

Awake, O sword, against My shepherds, and against the man who is My citizen, says the Lord Almighty; strike the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring My hand upon the little ones.

For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come,' so now I say to you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and I will receive you unto Myself; so that where I am, there you may be also.

And where I am going you know, and the way you know."

But these things I have spoken to you, so that when the time comes, you may remember them, that I told you. But these things I did not say to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

"But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

"A little [while] and you will not see Me; and again a little [while] and you will see Me, because I am going to the Father."

Therefore they said, "What is this that He says, 'A little [while]'? We do not understand what He is saying."

Most assuredly I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be grieved, but your grief will be turned into joy.

Therefore you also now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

I came forth from the Father and I have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and I am going to the Father."

And I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those which You have given Me, that they may be one just as We [are].

But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

Now after He said these things, while they were beholding [Him], He was lifted up, and a cloud withdrew Him from their sight.

whom it is necessary [for] heaven to receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;

But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

so that you do not appear to men [to be] fasting, but to your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Now as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them."

Then, fasting and praying, and laying their hands on them, they sent them away.

And having chosen elders for them in every church, [and] having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement, [and that] for a season, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

in labor and hardship, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--