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Simon Peter said, "I'm going fishing!" The others said, "We will go with you." They went out in their boat. But they didn't catch a thing that night.

Early the next morning Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize who he was.

Simon Peter got back into the boat and dragged the net to shore. In it were one hundred fifty-three large fish, but still the net did not rip.

Jesus said, "Come and eat!" But none of the disciples dared ask who he was. They knew he was the Lord.

I tell you for certain that when you were a young man, you dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old, you will hold out your hands. Then others will wrap your belt around you and lead you where you don't want to go."

So the rumor spread among the other disciples that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say he would not die. He simply said, "What is it to you, if I want him to live until I return?"

until he was taken up to heaven. But before he was taken up, he gave orders to the apostles he had chosen with the help of the Holy Spirit.

John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

But the Holy Spirit will come upon you and give you power. Then you will tell everyone about me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and everywhere in the world."

but as he went up, they kept looking up into the sky. Suddenly two men dressed in white clothes were standing there beside them.

They said, "Why are you men from Galilee standing here and looking up into the sky? Jesus has been taken to heaven. But he will come back in the same way that you have seen him go."

He said: My friends, long ago by the power of the Holy Spirit, David said something about Judas, and what he said has now happened. Judas was one of us and had worked with us, but he brought the mob to arrest Jesus.

And when they heard this noise, a crowd gathered. But they were surprised, because they were hearing everything in their own languages.

But this is what God had the prophet Joel say,

But God set him free from death and raised him to life. Death could not hold him in its power.

But David was a prophet, and he knew that God had made a promise he would not break. He had told David that someone from his own family would someday be king.

But they looked straight at him and said, "Look up at us!"

But Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold! But I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, get up and start walking."

and you killed the one who leads people to life. But God raised him from death, and all of us can tell you what he has done.

But God had his prophets tell that his Messiah would suffer, and now he has kept that promise.