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"Truly, truly I tell you, when you were younger, you used to put on your belt and walk wherever you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will put your belt on you, and bring you where you do not want to go."

Therefore this account went out among the brothers, that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?"

But there are also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they were written in detail, I expect that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.

Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said, "you heard of from Me;

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

But He said to them, "It is not for you to know periods of time or appointed times which the Father has set by His own authority;

but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth."

But others were jeering and saying, "They are full of sweet wine!"

But Peter, taking his stand with the other eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: "Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, know this, and pay attention to my words.

but this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

"But God raised Him from the dead, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.

"For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says: 'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,

But Peter, along with John, looked at him intently and said, "Look at us!"

But Peter said, "I do not have silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!"

But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why are you staring at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

"But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

but put to death the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.

"But the things which God previously announced by the mouths of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has fulfilled in this way.

But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

"He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.