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After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body.

And the cloth, which had been round his head, not with the linen bands but rolled up in a place by itself.

And when he had said this, he let them see his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

So the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, If I do not see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails, and if I do not put my hand into his side, I will never have belief.

And after eight days, his disciples were again in the house and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were shut, Jesus came, and taking his place in the middle of them, he said, May peace be with you!

A number of other signs Jesus did before his disciples which are not recorded in this book:

But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter, Thomas named Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were all together.

So the disciple who was dear to Jesus said to Peter, It is the Lord! Hearing that it was the Lord, Peter put his coat round him (because he was not clothed) and went into the sea.

He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.

Then Peter, turning round, saw the disciple who was dear to Jesus coming after them--the disciple who was resting on his breast at the last meal, and said, Lord, who is it who will be false to you?

This is the disciple who gives witness about these things and who put them in writing: and we have knowledge that his witness is true.

I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:

And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

And they all with one mind gave themselves up to prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.

(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.