Study Desk

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me! I have not yet gone to the Father. But tell my disciples that I am going to the one who is my Father and my God, as well as your Father and your God."

Thomas replied, "You are my Lord and my God!"

But these are written so that you will put your faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the Son of God. If you have faith in him, you will have true life.

Jesus said this to tell how Peter would die and bring honor to God. Then he said to Peter, "Follow me!"

Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.

But this is what God had the prophet Joel say,

Now, listen to what I have to say about Jesus from Nazareth. God proved that he sent Jesus to you by having him work miracles, wonders, and signs. All of you know this.

God had already planned and decided that Jesus would be handed over to you. So you took him and had evil men put him to death on a cross.

But God set him free from death and raised him to life. Death could not hold him in its power.

But David was a prophet, and he knew that God had made a promise he would not break. He had told David that someone from his own family would someday be king.

David knew this would happen, and so he told us that Christ would be raised to life. He said that God would not leave him in the grave or let his body decay.

All of us can tell you that God has raised Jesus to life!

Jesus was taken up to sit at the right side of God, and he was given the Holy Spirit, just as the Father had promised. Jesus is also the one who has given the Spirit to us, and that is what you are now seeing and hearing.

Everyone in Israel should then know for certain that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ, even though you put him to death on a cross.

Peter said, "Turn back to God! Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven. Then you will be given the Holy Spirit.

This promise is for you and your children. It is for everyone our Lord God will choose, no matter where they live."

while praising God. Everyone liked them, and each day the Lord added to their group others who were being saved.

and he jumped up and started walking. He went with Peter and John into the temple, walking and jumping and praising God.

Everyone saw him walking around and praising God.

The God that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and our other ancestors worshiped has brought honor to his Servant Jesus. He is the one you betrayed. You turned against him when he was being tried by Pilate, even though Pilate wanted to set him free.