18 your God. Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples that she hath seen the Lord, and that he spoke these things to her.

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In the evening, on that same day, the first day of the week, the doors where the disciples assembled being shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to 20 them, Peace be to you. And having said this, he shewed them

his hands and his side, and the disciples were rejoiced at see21 ing the Lord. Then Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you. 22 As the Father sent me so I send you. And having said this

he breathed on them, and saith to them, Receive a holy spirit. 23 Whose sins soever you forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins soever you retain, they are retained.

24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, he who is called Didy25 mus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails; and put my finger into the print of the nails; and put this hand 26 of mine into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days, his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, 27 Peace be to you. Then he saith to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger and behold my hands! and reach thy hand and put it in28 to my side; and be not an unbeliever, but a believer. And Tho

mas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God. Jesus 29 saith to him, Thomas, Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed? Happy they who have not seen me and yet believe.

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Now Jesus performed many other miracles in the presence 31 of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life by his

name.

XXI. After this Jesus shewed himself again to his disciples, 2 by the sea of Tiberias, and in this manner he shewed himself. Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathaniel, who was of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two 3 other of his disciples, were together. Simon Peter saith to them, I am going a fishing. They say to him, We will go with thee. They went and presently got aboard the vessel, and that

4 night caught nothing. And when it was morning Jesus stood 5 on the shore, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

Then Jesus saith to them, Lads, have you any thing to eat? They answered him, No. Then he said to them, Cast the net 6 on the right side of the vessel and you will find. So they cast, and now they were not able to draw it up, by reason of the mul titude of fishes. Upon this that disciple whom Jesus loved 7 saith to Peter, It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, upon

hearing that it is the Lord, girded on his vest, for he was 8 stript, and threw himself into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, (for they were not far from land, only about 9 two hundred cubits) dragging the net with the fishes. As soon

then as they came ashore, they see a fire of coals ready and a lit10 tle fish on it, and a loaf of bread. Jesus saith to them, Bring some 11 of the fish you have now caught. Simon Peter went and drew

the net ashore full of large fishes, a hundred and fifty three. And 12 though they were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus saith

to them, Come to breakfast. Now none of the disciples ventur13 ed to ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord. 14 Then Jesus cometh and taketh the loaf and giveth to them, and the small fish likewise. This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to these his disciples, after he was risen from the dead.

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So when they had breakfasted, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yes, Lord, Thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith 16 to him, Feed my lambs. Again he saith to him a second time,

Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith to him, Yes, 17 Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Tend my sheep. He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said to him, the third time, "Lovest thou me," and he said to him, Lord thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep. Verily, veri18 ly I say to thee, When thou wast young, thou didst gird thy

self and walk where thou wouldst; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not. Now this he said 19 to him, signifying by what sort of a death he should glorify

20 God. And having said this, Jesus saith to him, Follow me. Now when Peter turned about and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, (even him who at the supper reclined on his breast and said, Master, who is he that is about to deli21.ver thee up) Peter seeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord, and this 22 one, what in respect to him? Jesus saith to him, If I will that he

stay till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me. This saying 23 therefore went abroad among the brethren, that this disciple

should not die. But Jesus did not say to him, he should not 24 die; but, If I will that he stay till I come, what is that to thee? This is the disciple who testifieth concerning these things and hath written these things. And we know that his testimony is true.

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There are indeed many other things which Jesus did. With respect to them, if they were all committed to writing, one by one, even then I do not think that the world would cordially receive the books written. Amen.

THE ACTS

OF THE

APOSTLES.

I.

I COMPOSED, O Theophilus, the former treatise con2 cerning all that Jesus took occasion both to do and teach till the day when he was taken up, after giving a charge by the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, and to whom 3 he had, after his suffering, shewn himself to be alive, by ma

ny proofs, during forty days appearing to them, and speaking 4 of what concerned the kingdom of God. Then assembling

them together, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard 5 from me.* For John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in a Holy Spirit not many days hence. When they 6 therefore were come together they asked him, saying, Lord, art thou at this time about to restore the kingdom to Israel? 7 Whereupon he said to them, It is not for you to know times and seasons which the Father hath reserved in his own dispo8 sal. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth. 9 And having said this, while they were beholding [him] he

* See John 14. 26: 15.26: 16, 7. Luke 24. 49.

10 was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. And as they continued looking stedfastly up to heaven, while he was going, behold! two men stood near them, robed in 11 white, who addressed them, saying, Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? This same Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same manner as you have seen him going to heaven.

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Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called 13 Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey* from it. And when they came in, they went up into the upper room, where Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James, usually 14 made their abode. These all continued with one mind in prayer and supplication, with the women, particularly Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

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And in those days Peter rising up in the midst of the disciples, (the number of persons assembled being about one hun16 dred and twenty) said, Men, brethren, It was necessary that this scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit predicted, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was 17 guide to them who laid hold on Jesus; because he was num18 bered with us, and had a part of this service allotted him—(Now

this man indeed had purchased† a field with the reward of his iniquity, and, falling on his face, had burst asunder, and all 19 his bowels gushed out; and this was so generally known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that the field is called in their 20 language, Akeldama, that is field of blood) "for it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his fold be desolate, and let there be no 21 inhabitant therein." And, His office let another take;§ It is necessary therefore, that one of these men who have accompanied us, during all the time that the Lord Jesus came in and 22 went out over us, beginning from the baptism of John to the day on which he was taken up from us, should be a witness

*About a mile.

†That is, according to the Hebrew idiom, Ps. 69. 25. §$109. 8.

had occasioned a field to be purchased. VOL. IV.

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