Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples.

When John's two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus.

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

Now a dispute came about between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

So they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified -- see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!"

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Jesus said a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Shepherd my sheep."

Jesus said a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" and said, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you." Jesus replied, "Feed my sheep.

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

When they had entered Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were there.

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us -- one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us."

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.

Peter looked directly at him (as did John) and said, "Look at us!"

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon's Portico.

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest's family.

After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and discovered that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus.

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.

So after Peter and John had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages as they went.

you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.

When Peter realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying.

So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had completed their mission, bringing along with them John Mark.

When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)

Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

But while John was completing his mission, he said repeatedly, 'What do you think I am? I am not he. But look, one is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet!'

Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too,

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

So Paul said, "Into what then were you baptized?" "Into John's baptism," they replied.

Paul said, "John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must happen very soon. He made it clear by sending his angel to his servant John,

From John, to the seven churches that are in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from "he who is," and who was, and who is still to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things, and when I heard and saw them, I threw myself down to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me.