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Simon Peter said to them, I am going to catch fish. They said to him, We also will come with you. So they went out and went up into the boat; and that night they caught nothing.

So Jesus said to them, Boys, have you got anything to eat? They said to him, No.

He said to them, Throw your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find. So they threw it, and they were not able to draw the net, because of the many fishes which it had caught.

So Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of large fishes, one hundred and fifty-three; and in spite of this weight, the net did not break.

He said to him again the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? It grieved Peter because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? So he said to him, My Lord, you understand well everything, you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my female lambs.

And they said to them, Men of Gal''i-lee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus who has ascended from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him ascend into heaven.

And this very thing is known to all who dwell in Jerusalem; so that the field is called in the language of the country, Kha''kal- De''ma which is to say Ko-ri-ath''dem, the field of blood.

So they appointed two: Joseph called Bar''sa-bas who was surnamed Justus, and Mat-thi''as.

For David said concerning him, I foresaw my Lord always, for he is on my right hand, so that I should not be shaken:

So he foresaw and spoke concerning the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in the grave, neither did his body see corruption.

Then Simon said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of the LORD Jesus for the remission of sins, so that you may receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Behold a certain man, lame from his mother''s womb, was carried by men who were accustomed to bring him and lay him at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful so that he might ask alms from those who entered into the temple.

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

But, so that this news should not spread further among the people, let us threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go; for they found no cause to punish them because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.

And Simon Peter said to him, An-a-ni''as, why has Satan so filled your heart that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and hide part of the money of the price of the field?

They even brought out the sick into the streets and laid them on bed quilts so that when Simon Peter should happen to pass by, his shadow might fall upon them.

So they laid hold on the apostles and arrested them and bound them in prison.

This very one God has appointed a Prince and a Saviour, and has lifted him up by his right hand so that he may grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

And we are the witnesses of these words; so is also the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who believe in him.