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Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

And Simon Peter followed Jesus: and so did another disciple. And that disciple was known to the high priest and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest.

And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?

Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of great fishes, one hundred and fifty-three. And although there were so many, the net was not broken.

Jesus saith to him: So I will have him to remain till I come, what is it to thee? Follow thou me.

This saying therefore went abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die. And Jesus did not say to him: He should not die; but: So I will have him to remain till I come, what is it to thee?

Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come as you have seen him going into heaven.

And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so that the same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.

But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

And Peter said to her: Tell me, woman, whether you sold the land for so much? And she said: Yea, for so much.

Then the high priest said: Are these things so?

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

So Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, and our fathers.

You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

And the place of the scripture which he was reading was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter: and like a lamb without voice before his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth.

And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first named Christians.

And the angel said to him: Gird thyself and put on thy sandals. And he did so. And he said to him: Cast thy garment about thee and follow me,

But they said to her: Thou art mad. But she affirmed that it was so. Then said they: It is his angel.