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

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

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

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

both Jews and proselytes, 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 on 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 that 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.

God raised him up, loosing 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 on 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 that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.

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

For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

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

and you 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 would suffer, he thus fulfilled.