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Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

(This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him, "Follow me."

To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.

Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God."

'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, 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;

"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know--

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne,

This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.

Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear.

Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."

For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him."

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

And leaping up he stood and walked and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

and killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.