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He said to them, "Throw in your net to starboard and you will catch some." So they threw in their net, and there were so many fish in it that they couldn't haul it aboard.

Shim‘on Kefa went up and dragged the net ashore. It was full of fish, 153 of them; but even with so many, the net wasn't torn.

The third time he said to him, "Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan, are you my friend?" Shim‘on was hurt that he questioned him a third time: "Are you my friend?" So he replied, "Lord, you know everything! You know I'm your friend!" Yeshua said to him, "Feed my sheep!

This became known to everyone in Yerushalayim, so they called that field Hakal-D'ma — which in their language means "Field of Blood").

Then they drew lots to decide between the two, and the lot fell to Mattityahu. So he was added to the eleven emissaries.

For David says this about him: ‘I saw Adonai always before me, for he is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.

So those who accepted what he said were immersed, and there were added to the group that day about three thousand people.

a man crippled since birth was being carried in. Every day people used to put him at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, so that he could beg from those going into the Temple court.

so that he sprang up, stood a moment, and began walking. Then he entered the Temple court with them, walking and leaping and praising God!

"Therefore, repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be erased;

so that times of refreshing may come from the Lord's presence; and he may send the Messiah appointed in advance for you, that is, Yeshua.

So it is to you first that God has sent his servant whom he has raised up, so that he might bless you by turning each one of you from your evil ways."

So they told them to step away from the Sanhedrin while they discussed the matter privately.

So they called them in again and ordered them under no circumstances to speak or teach in the name of Yeshua.

"So now, Lord, take note of their threats; and enable your slaves to speak your message with boldness!

Then Kefa said, "Why has the Adversary so filled your heart that you lie to the Ruach HaKodesh and keep back some of the money you received for the land?

Before you sold it, the property was yours; and after you sold it, the money was yours to use as you pleased. So what made you decide to do such a thing? You have lied not to human beings but to God!"

They went so far as to bring the sick into the streets and lay them on mattresses and stretchers, so that at least Kefa's shadow might fall on them as he passed by.

But the officers who went did not find them in the prison. So they returned and reported,

We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him."