John answered, "A man cannot get anything, unless it is given to him from heaven.

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --

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

John was the lamp that kept on burning and shining, and you decided for a time to delight yourselves in his light.

But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

He again crossed the Jordan at the place where John at first used to baptize, and there He stayed.

And many people came to Him and kept on saying, "John did not perform any wonder-works, but everything he ever said about this man was true."

After they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than you are to these things?" Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs."

Jesus again said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, are you really devoted to me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then be a shepherd to my sheep."

For the third time Jesus asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you really tenderly love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus the third time asked him, "Do you really tenderly love me?" So he answered Him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I do tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep.

"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit."

When they reached the city, they went to the room upstairs where they had been staying; they were: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

from the time of His baptism by John down to the day when He was taken up from us, must be added to our number as a witness to His resurrection."

Peter and John were on their way up to the temple at the three o'clock hour of prayer,

So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.

Peter looked him straight in the eye, and so did John, and said, "Look at us."

While he was still clinging to Peter and John, all the people in utter amazement crowded around them in what was called Solomon's portico.

met in Jerusalem, including Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all that were members of the high priest's family.

They were surprised to see the courage shown by Peter and John and to find that they were uneducated men, and especially untrained in the schools, but they recognized the fact that they had been companions of Jesus,

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of Him,

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

You know the story yourselves that spread all over Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John preached,

and I remembered the saying of the Lord, 'John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

He had James the brother of John murdered with a sword,

When he became conscious of his situation, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, were a large number of people had met and were praying.

When Barnabas and Saul had finished their helpful service, they returned from Jerusalem, and took along with them John who was called Mark.

When they reached Salamis, they began to preach God's message in the Jewish synagogues. They had John with them as their assistant.

Then Paul and his party set sail from Paphos and crossed over to Perga in Pamphylia. Here John quit them and returned to Jerusalem,

as John, before His coming, had already preached baptism as an expression of repentance, for all the people of Israel.

As John was closing his career, he said, 'What do you take me to be? I am not the Christ; no, but He is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the shoes on His feet.'

But Barnabas persisted in wanting to take along John who was called Mark.

He had been instructed about the way of the Lord, and with spiritual fervor he was speaking and was accurately teaching some details about Jesus, although he knew of no baptism but John's.

He then asked, "With what sort of baptism then were you baptized?" They answered, "With John's baptism."

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

and because they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, the so-called pillar apostles, gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, with the understanding that we should go to the heathen and they to the Jews.

A revelation given by Jesus Christ which God gave to Him, to make known to His slaves what must very soon take place. He sent and communicated it through His angel to His slave John,

John to the seven churches in Asia: spiritual blessing and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven spirits that are before His throne,

I, John, your brother and companion with you in the trouble, the kingdom, and the patient endurance which Jesus gives, found myself on the island called Patmos, for preaching God's message and testifying to Jesus.

It is I, John, who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me, to worship him.