saw the Lord.

21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be to you! as my Father sent me, so I also send you:

22 and when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith to them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit:

23 whose sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; and whose ye retain, they are retained.

24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didumus, was not with them when Jesus

came :

fore, said to him, We have seen the Lord: but he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger to the print of the nails, and put my hand to his side, I will not believe.

26 And after eight days, his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them: then cometh Jesus, while the doors were locked, and stood in the midst; and said, Peace be to you!

27 then he saith to Thomas, Bring hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and put it to my side; and be not unbelieving, but believing :

28 and Thomas answered and

manifested himself again

to the disciples, at the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself thus.

2 Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didumus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples, were together:

3 Simon Peter saith to them, I am going to fish; they say to him, We also will go with thee they went forth, and entered into a ship; and that night they caught nothing:

4 and when it was morning, Jesus stood on the shore; but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.

5 Then Jesus saith to them, Children, have ye any thing to eat? they answered him, No:

6 and he said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye will find: they cast it, therefore, and were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes:

7 therefore the disciple whom Jesus loved saith to Peter, It is the Lord! when, then, Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded his coat about him, (for he was naked,) and cast himself into the sea:

8 and the other disciples came in a boat, (for they were not far from land, only about two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with the fishes.

9 As soon then as they came to land, they saw a fire burning, and a fish laid upon it, and bread:

10 Jesus saith to them, Bring some of the fish which ye have just caught:

11 Simon Peter therefore went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty-three and although they were so many, the net was not broken.

12 Jesus saith to them, Come and dine: none of the disciples dared to ask him, Who art thou? knowing that he was the Lord:

13 Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth it to them; and likewise the fish.

14 This is now the third time that Jesus manifested himself

to the disciples, after he was risen from the dead.

15 When, then, they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter; Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? he saith to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee: he saith to him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again, a second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? he saith to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee: he saith to him, Tend my sheep. 17 He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, 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 saith to him, Feed my sheep:

18 verily, verily, I tell thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldst ; but when thou shalt be old, thou wilt stretch out thy hands, and another will gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldst not:

19 and this he said, signifying by what death he should glorify God: and when he had spoken this, he saith to him, Follow thou me:

20 Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple following whom Jesus loved, (who had leaned

at his breast at the supper, and had said, Lord, which is he who betrayeth thee?)

21 Peter, therefore, seeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall he do?

22 Jesus saith to him, If I will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee? follow thou

me:

23 then this saying went forth

to the brethren, that that disciple should not die; yet Jesus said not to him, that he should not die, but, If I will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee?

24 This disciple is he who both testifieth of these things, and hath written these things; and we know that his testimony is true.

46.

CHAPTER I.

THE former relation I made,
O Theophilus, of all that
Jesus both did and taught, from
the beginning,

2 until the day in which he was taken up; after having given commandments, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he had chosen :

3 to whom also, after he had suffered, he shewed himself to be living by many proofs; being seen by them during forty days; and speaking to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

4 and, being assembled with them, he commanded them not Luke, xxiv. to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father, Which, said he, ye heard from me:

time restore the kingdom to Israel?

37.

1 Tim. vi. 15.

7 and he said to them, It is Matt. xxiv. not for you to know times or Mark, xv. 32. seasons, which the Father hath reserved to his own authority:

8 but ye shall receive power, from the Holy Spirit coming upon you; and shall be my witnesses, in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

9 And when he had said these words, while they were yet beholding him, he was taken up, and a cloud concealed him from their sight:

10 and while they were gazing toward heaven, as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing;

11 who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking up to heaven? this Jesus, who hath been taken up from you into heaven, will so come in the same manner as ye have seen him go toward heaven.

12 Then they returned to Jersualem from the mount called, of Olives, which is a

v. 6.

About 13 mile.

sabbath day's journey from Jerusalem.

13 And when they were come into the city, they went up to the upper chamber where abode Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James:

14 all these continued with one accord in prayer; with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

15 And during those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, (the number of names that were together were about an hundred and twenty,) and said,

16 Brethren, it behoved that the scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake before, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was guide to those that took Jesus; 17 for he was numbered with us apostles, and obtained that allotment of this ministry: Matt. xxvii.7. 18 now, this man acquired a field with the reward of his iniquity; but, casting himself headlong he hung in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out:

19 and this became known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem, so that that field is called in their own tongue, Aceldama, that is, Field of blood:

and cix. 8.

20 for it is written in the book of Psalms, "Let his Ps. lxix. 25; "habitation be desolate, and "let no one dwell therein : "and let another take his "office:"

21 wherefore it behoveth, that of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us;

22 beginning from the baptism of John, until the day that he was taken up from us; one should be ordained, to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who surnamed Justus, and

was

Matthias:

24 and they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, shew which of these two thou hast chosen,

25 to take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas departed, to go to his own place:

26 and they gave them lots; and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

CHAPTER II.

AND when the day of the Pentecost was fully come, they were all together in the same place:

2 and suddenly a sound came

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