and the napkin which had been about his head not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up in it's own place.

Then the other disciple also who arrived first at the tomb went inside, and he perceived and believed.

For not yet had they understood the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

and gazed at two angels in glistening white sitting, one at the head the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

When she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but did not know that it was Jesus.

"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I am not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Accordingly the other disciples kept telling him, "We have seen the Lord." But he told them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and thrust my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe it."

Then to Thomas he said: "Place your finger here, and see my hands; and place your hand here, and thrust it into my side, and become not unbelieving, but believing."

"Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed," Jesus told him. "Blessed are those who, without seeing, yet believed."

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They answered him, "And we are going with you." So they went out and got into the boat, and throughout the night they caught nothing.

But when day was dawning Jesus stood on the beach. The disciples, however, did not recognize that it was Jesus.

And he said to them, "Cast your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find." So they cast it, and now they could not haul it in for the multitude of fishes.

Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" On hearing that it was the Lord, Simon Peter girt his fisher's coat about him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the water.

When they got to the shore they beheld a charcoal fire ready laid, with fish on it, and some bread.

"Come and have breakfast," said Jesus to them. Not one of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" Knowing that it was the Lord.

Jesus went and took bread and gave it to them, and the fish also.

"Feed my sheep," said Jesus. "In solemn truth I tell you that when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands for some one to gird you, and carry you where you do not wish to go."

This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God. After speaking thus, he said to him, "Follow me."

Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following??e who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

On catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, what about him?"

"If I choose that he remain until I come," said Jesus, "what is that to you? Do you follow me."

Accordingly the report spread among the brothers that this disciple should not die; but Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said, "If I choose that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

It is this disciple who bears testimony to these facts and who recorded them; and we know that his testimony is true.

And once when he was eating with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. "Of this," he said, "you have heard from me.

So, when they came together, they began to ask him, "Master, are you at this time about to restore the kingdom of Israel?"

He answered. "It is not for you to know times and occasions which the Father has fixed in his own authority;

"yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

When he had said this, and while they were looking at him, he was lifted up, and a cloud received him up out of their sight.

While they were gazing into the sky as he was going up, suddenly there were two men in white garments standing by them,

It was during these days that Peter stood up among the brothers??he whole number of persons present was about one hundred and twenty??nd said:

"Men and brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David in regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

"Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out.

"For it is written in the Book of Psalms, Let his dwelling-place be desolate; Let no man dwell there, also, Let another take his work.

"It is necessary then that, of the men who have been associated with us during the whole time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

"in this ministry of this apostles from which Judas went out to go to his own place."

there came suddenly from the sky a sound like the onrush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

"Then how is it that each one of us hears them speak his own mother tongue?

we all hear these men telling in our own tongue what great things God has done."

All were astonished and bewildered and kept saying to one another, "What can this mean?"

Then Peter, with the Eleven, stood up and addresses them in a loud voice. "Men of Judea and dwellers in Jerusalem, have no doubt about this matter, but listen to what I say.

"These men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

"No, this is what the prophet Joel predicted.

"In the last days, God says, it shall come to pass that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams;

upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days, will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

him, delivered up by the settled purpose and fore-knowledge of God, you crucified and killed at the hands of lawless men;

but God has raised him to life, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for death to hold him.

For David says of him. "I beheld the Lord always before my face; For he is at my right hand lest I be shaken.

When they heard these words they were stung to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles. "Men and brothers, what shall we do?"

Day after day they continued stedfastly with one accord in the Temple; and breaking bread together in their own homes, they continued to eat their food with gladness and an undivided heart,

One day Peter and John were going up together for the hour of prayer, at three in the afternoon,

Peter fixed his eyes upon him, as did John, and said, "Look at us."

"I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have, this I am going to give to you; in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, walk!"

and recognized that this was the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

While he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people crowded awe-struck around them, in what was known as Solomon's Portico.

When he saw this, Peter said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you wondering at this? Why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made this man to walk?

"And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

"But God has thus fulfilled what he foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

"Repent then! and reform, from the blotting out of your sins, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;

"and it shall be that every soul who will not listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

"It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you in turning every one of you away from your wicked ways."

incensed at their teaching the people, and proclaiming, in the case of Jesus, the resurrection from the dead.

They arrested them, and put them in prison till the next day, for it was already evening.

Then they made the men stand before them and demanded, "By what power, or in what name, have you fellows done this?"