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Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She thought that it was the gardener, and said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him."

Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.'"

Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tied around himself his outer garment (for he was naked) and threw himself into the sea.

And while he was with them, he commanded them, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what was promised by the Father, which you heard about from me.

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

But he said to them, "It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority.

(Now this man acquired a field for the wages of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines spilled out.

"For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his residence become deserted, and let there be no one to live in it,' and, ‘Let another person take his position.'

Therefore it is necessary for one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was added to serve with the eleven apostles.

For these men are not drunk, as you assume, because it is the third hour of the day.

God raised him up, having brought to an end the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

For David says with reference to him, ‘I saw the Lord before me continually, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

For this reason my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly, furthermore also my flesh will live in hope,

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."'

And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those who are far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself."

And a certain man was being carried who was lame from birth. He was placed every day at the gate of the temple called "Beautiful," so that he could ask for charitable gifts from those who were going into the temple courts.

And they recognized him, that this one was the one who used to sit asking for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.