from his baptism by John to the time when he was caught up from us, must join us as a witness to his resurrection."

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

and when he saw Peter and John on the point of going into the Temple he asked them to give him something.

Peter fixed his eyes on him, as John did also, and said to him, "Look at us!"

And as he still clung to Peter and John, all the people crowded about them in the utmost astonishment in what was known as Solomon's Colonnade.

with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who belonged to the high priest's family.

They were amazed to see how outspoken Peter and John were, and to find that they were uneducated men with no advantages. They recognized them as 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 that has gone all over Judea, starting from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed,

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

He had John's brother, James, beheaded,

When he realized his situation, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where a number of people were gathered, praying.

When Barnabas and Saul had performed their mission to Jerusalem, they went back, taking John who was called Mark with them.

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

Paul and his companions sailed from Paphos and went to Perga in Pamphylia. There John left them and returned to Jerusalem,

in preparation for whose coming John had preached to all the people of Israel baptism in token of repentance.

Toward the end of his career, John said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he! No! Someone is coming after me, the shoes on whose feet I am not fit to untie!'

Now Barnabas wanted to take John who was called Mark with them.

He had had some instruction about the Way of the Lord, and he talked with burning zeal and taught painstakingly about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

"How then were you baptized?" he asked. "With John's baptism," they answered.

"John's baptism was a baptism in token of repentance," said Paul, "and he told the people to believe in him who was to follow him, that is, in Jesus."

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been intrusted with it for the Jews??8 for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen??9 and when they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, pledged Barnabas and me their co-operation, with the understanding that we should work among the heathen and they among the Jews.

A revelation made by Jesus Christ which God gave him to disclose to his slaves of what must very soon happen. He sent and communicated it by his angel to his slave John,

John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne,

I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.

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