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14 When she had said this, she turned back, and saw Jesus standing; but knew not that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?" She supposing him to be the keeper of the garden, said to him, Sir, if thou hast carried him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away." 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned, and said to him, "Rabboni." Which signifieth, My Teacher. 17 Jesus said to her, "Embrace me not: for I do not yet ascend to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, 'I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.'" 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

19 THEN, in the evening of that day, being the first day of the week, the doors where the disciples were [assembled] having been shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in, the midst; and said to them, "Peace be to you." 20 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad, when they saw the Lord. 21 Then Jesus said to them again, "Peace be to you: as the Father sent me, so I send you." 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive ye the holy spirit. 23 If ye remit the sins

of any, they are remitted to them; if ye retain them, they are retained."

24 Bur Thomas, called Didy. mus, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 Then, the other disciple, said to him, "We have seen our Master." But he said to them, "Unless I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."

26 And, within eight days, his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them: then Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace be to you." 27 Then he said to Tho mas,

"Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing " 28 Thomas answered, and said to him, "My Lord, and my God!"* 29 Jesus said to him, "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; happy are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

30 NOW Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 31 but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye may have life through his name.

CH. XXI. 1 AFTER these things, Jesus showed himself

"These words are usually understood as a confession. Beza says that they are an exclamation: q. d. My Lord! and my God! how great is thy power! Eph. i. 19, 20. Whitby's Last Thoughts, 2d ed. p. 78." Newcome.

again to the disciples at the sea
of Tiberias: and in this man-
ner he showed himself. 2 There
were together, Simon Peter, and
Thomas called Didymus, and
Nathanael of Cana in Galilee,
and the sons of Zebedee, and two
others of his disciples. 3 Simon
Peter said to them, "I am going
to fish." They said to him,
"We also will go with thee."
They departed, and went [im-
mediately into a ship; and on
that night they caught nothing.
4 But when morning was now
come, Jesus stood on the shore:
the disciples, however, knewed from the dead.
not that it was Jesus.

11 Simon Peter went into the vessel, and drew the net to land, full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty-three and although there were so many, yet the net was not broken. 12 Jesus said to them, "Come and dine." Now none of the disciples durst inquire of him, "Who art thou?" knowing that it was their Master. 13 Jesus [then] came, and took bread, and gave to them, and fish in like manner. 14 This was the third time that Jesus had already showed himself to his disciples, after he was rais

5 Then Jesus said to them, "Young men, have ye any food?" They answered him, "No." 6 And he said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye will get some." They cast it, therefore: and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes. 7 Wherefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is our Master."

15 SO when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of Jonah, lovest thou me more than these?""* He said to him, "Yes, Master: thou knowest that I love thee." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." 16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon son of Jonah, lovest thou me?” He said to him, "Yes, Master: thou knowest that I love thee." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon son of Jonah, lovest thou me ?" Peter grieved that he said to him the third time, " Lovest thou me ?" and

Now, when Simon Peter heard that it was their Master, he girt on his upper garment, (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea. 8 And the other disciples came in the ves-he said to him, "Master, thou sel, (for they were not far from knowest all things; thou knowland, but as it were two hun- est that I love thee." Jesus said dred cubits), dragging the net to him, "Feed my sheep. full of fishes. 9 As soon as they landed, they saw a fire of coals lying, and fish laid thereon; and bread. 10 Jesus said to them, "Bring of the fishes which ye have now caught."

18" Verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast young, thou didst gird thyself and walk whither thou wouldst: but when thou shalt be old, thou wilt stretch forth thy hands, and

Or, more than thou lovest these things? See Bishop Pearce. The original is ambiguous.

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"These words are an early testimony of eye-witnesses to the truth of St. John's gospel: they may have been admitted from the margin into the text." Newcome.

+Grotius and Le Clerc reject this whole chapter: but Wetstein admits it.

"Hammond considers the two last verses as the attestation of the Asiatic bishops; at whose re

quest Eusebius affirms that John wrote his gospel.

"Dr. Owen thinks that from xai odaμev, in ver. 24, to the end of ver. 25, is an early addition, perhaps a very early one, by another hand. Bowyer, 4to." Newcome.

convened together, they asked him, saying, "Master, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" 7 But he said to them, "It is not for you to know the times or seasons, which the Father, by his own authority, hath appointed. 8 But ye shall receive power, by the coming of the holy spirit upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth." 9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld him, he was lifted up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And on his being taken up, as they were looking earnestly toward heaven, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 who also said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking toward heaven? this Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, will come again in the same manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's journey. 13 And when they were come, they went into an upper room, where they usually abode; both Peter and James and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. 14 All these stedfastly continued with one

consent in prayer, with certain women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and [with] his breth

ren.

15 AND in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, (whose number then present was about a hundred and twenty,) 16 and said "Men, Brethren, it was necessary for [that] scripture to be fulfilled, which the holy spirit spake by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was guide to those that seized Jesus; 17 inasmuch as he was numbered among us, and had his part allotted him in this ministry." 18 (Now this man, as we may say, bought a field with the reward of this iniquity; and falling down, he burst in the midst, so that all his bowels gushed out:* 19 and it was known to all who dwelt in Jerusalem; so that the field was called, in their own dialect, Aceldama, that is, The field of blood. 20" For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be desolate; and let no one dwell therein.' And, Let another take his office.' 21 Out of those men, therefore, who have been with us all the time that the Lord Jesus was amongst us,† 22 from the time when he was baptized by John, to the day of his being taken up from us, one should be appointed with us for a witness of his resurrection." 23 Then they set apart two; Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

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*18, 19. "These verses may be considered as the words of St. Luke, the historian: and from the phrase in their own dialect, compared with Col. iv. 11, 14, some infer that Luke was a gentile." Newcome.

+ Gr. went in and out among us.

24 And they prayed, saying, "Thou Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, appoint one of these two, whom thou hast chosen for thyself, 25 to take the allotment of this ministry, and apostleship, from which Judas separated himself, that he might go to his own place."* 26 And their lots were cast: and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

dialect, in which we were born? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judeat and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, 10 in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers from Rome, both Jews and proselytes. 11 Cretans also and Arabians; we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God." 12 And they were all amazed, and doubted; saying one to another, "What can this mean?"" 13 But others, scoffing, said, "These men are full of new wine."

CH. II. 1 NOW when the day of Pentecost was come, they were all, with one consent, in the same place, 2 and suddenly, there came from heaven a sound, as of a rushing mighty wind; and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And they saw, as it were, tongues of fire, distributing themselves, and sitting upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with a holy spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the spirit gave them utterance. 5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, religious men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 And when this report was spread abroad, the multitude came together, and were perplexed, because every one heard them speaking in his own dialect. 7 And they were [all] amazed, and wondered, saying one to another, "Be-men-servants, and on my maidhold, are not all these who servants I will pour out my speak Galileans? 8 How then spirit in those days; and they hear we every man in our own shall prophesy: 19‡ and I will

14 But when Peter and the eleven had stood up, he lifted up his voice, and said to them, "Ye Jews, and all ye who dwell in Jerusalem, be this known to you, and hearken to my words. 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; since it is but the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel, 17 And it shall come to pass in the latter days, saith God, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 and on my

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The Syriac, according to the Latin of Tremellius, runs thus; " à quo separavit se lihudah, ut abiret in locum suum." This sense of the word is justified by the LXX Exod. xxxii. 8, where it is rendered turned aside; " they have turned aside out of the way which," &c.-"from which Judas turned aside, that," &c.

+ "India, Idumea, Cilicia, Bithynia, Lydia; are different eonjectures." Newcome..

19, 20. "These verses refer to the destruction of Jerusalem." Newcome.

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