John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

The next day, John was standing there again with two of his disciples.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus.

He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

Then a controversy about ritual purification sprang up between a certain Jew and John's disciples,

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

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

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

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

That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Then he asked him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."

Jesus told him, "Take care of my sheep." He asked him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was deeply hurt that he had asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" So he told him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you!"

because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit a few days from now."

When they came into the city, these men went to the upstairs room where they had been staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

beginning when he was baptized by John until the day he was taken up from us. Therefore, someone like this must become a witness with us to his resurrection."

One afternoon, Peter and John were on their way to the Temple for the three o'clock prayer time.

When he saw that Peter and John were about to go into the Temple, he asked them to give him something.

Peter, along with John, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Look at us!"

While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people came running to them in what was called "Solomon's Colonnade". They were dumbfounded.

They were greatly disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people and announcing that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead.

with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the rest of the high priest's family.

They made Peter and John stand in front of them and began asking, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

Now when the Jewish leaders saw the boldness of Peter and John and found out that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and realized that they had been with Jesus.

So they called Peter and John back in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God,

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

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

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

Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached.

Then I remembered what the Lord had said: "John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

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

When Peter realized what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where a large number of people had gathered and were praying.

When Barnabas and Saul had fulfilled their mission, they returned from Jerusalem, bringing with them John who was also called Mark.

Arriving in Salamis, they began to preach God's word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John to help them.

Then Paul and his men set sail from Paphos and arrived in Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them and went back to Jerusalem.

Before Jesus' appearance, John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people in Israel.

When John was finishing his work, he said, "Who do you think I am? I'm not the Messiah. No, but he is coming after me, and I'm not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet.'

Barnabas wanted to take along John, who was called Mark,

He had been instructed in the Lord's way, and with spiritual fervor he kept speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only about John's baptism.

He then asked, "Then into what were you baptized?" They answered, "Into John's baptism."

Then Paul said, "John baptized when they repented, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

So when James, Cephas, and John (who were reputed to be leaders) recognized the grace that had been given me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised.

This is the revelation of Jesus the Messiah, which God gave him to show his servants the things that must happen soon. He made it known by sending his messenger to his servant John,

From John to the seven churches in Asia. May grace and peace be yours from the one who is, who was, and who is coming, from the seven spirits who are in front of his throne,

I am John, your brother and partner in the oppression, kingdom, and patience that comes because of Jesus. I was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.

I, John, heard and saw these things. When I had heard and seen them, I bowed down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing me these things.