John:20-21

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* On the first day of the week , very early in the morning , while it was yet dark , Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and discovered that the stone had been removed from the tomb . * So she came running to Simon Peter and that other disciple whom Jesus loved , saying , "They have taken the Master out of the tomb , and we do not know where they have laid him !" * So Peter and the other disciples set out at once to go to the tomb . * They both began to run ; and the other disciple ran faster than Peter , and came first to the tomb . * Stooping down he glanced in and saw the linen wrapping lying on the ground ; but he did not go in . * Then Peter also came following him , and he went inside the tomb ; and he gazed at the linen wrapping as they lay , * and the napkin which had been about his head not lying with the wrappings , but rolled up in its own place . * Then the other disciple also who arrived first at the tomb went inside , and he perceived and believed . * For not yet had they understood the Scripture , that he must rise again from the dead . * Then the disciples went back again to their home . * Meanwhile , outside , Mary stood sobbing near the tomb . Still sobbing she stooped and looked into the tomb , * and gazed at two angels in glistening white sitting , one at the head the other at the feet , where the body of Jesus had lain . * They said to her , "Woman , why are you weeping ?" She answered , "Because they have taken away my Master , and I do not know where they have laid him ." * When she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there , but did not know that it was Jesus . * Jesus said to her . "Woman , why are you weeping ? Whom are you seeking ? She , supposing that he was the gardener , said to him , "Sir , if you have borne him away , tell me where you have put him , and I will take him away , myself ." * "Mary ," said Jesus . She turned to him . "Rabboni !" she cried in Hebrew . That is to say , "Teacher ." * "Do not cling to me ," said Jesus , "for I am not yet ascended to the Father . But go to my brothers and say to them , "I am ascending to my Father and your Father , to my God and your God ." * Away went Mary Magdalene to the disciples with the tidings , "I have seen the Master !" and that he said these things to her . * On the evening of that same day , the first day of the week , although the doors of the room where the disciples gathered had been locked for fear of the Jews , Jesus came , and there he stood among them , saying . "Peace to you !" * As he said this he showed them his hands and his side . Then were the disciple glad , when they saw the Lord . * Then Jesus said to them again . "Peace to you . As my Father has sent me forth , I also now am sending you ." * When he had said this he breathed upon them and said . * "Receive the Holy Spirit . If you remit any ones sins , they are remitted ; if you retain them they are retained ." * But Thomas , one of the Twelve , who was called "The Twin ." was not with them when Jesus came . * Accordingly the other disciples kept telling him , "We have seen the Lord ." But he told them , "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails , and thrust my finger into the print of the nails , and thrust my hand into his side , I will not believe it ." * A week later his disciples were again in the house , and Thomas was with them . Jesus came , although the doors were locked , and stood there among and said . "Peace to you !" * Then to Thomas he said . "Place your finger here , and see my hands ; and place your hand here , and thrust it into my side , and become not unbelieving , but believing ." * Thomas answered him , "My Lord and my God !" * "Because you have seen me , Thomas , you have believed ," Jesus told him . "Blessed are those who , without seeing , yet believed ." * There were then many other signs which Jesus performed in the presence of his disciples , which have not been written in this book ; * but these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ , the Son of God , and that by believing you may have life in his name . * After this Jesus showed himself again to his disciples by the Sea of Tiberias . He showed himself as follows . * There were together Simon Peter and Thomas , called "The Twin ," and Nathanael , from Cana of Galilee , and the two sons of Zebedee , and two others of his disciples . * Simon Peter said to them , "I am going fishing ." They answered him , "And we are going with you ." So they went out and got into the boat , and throughout the night they caught nothing . * But when day was dawning Jesus stood on the beach . The disciples , however , did not recognize that it was Jesus . * So Jesus said to them , "Lads , you havent any fish , have you ?" They answered him , "No ." * And he said to them , "Cast your net on the right side of the boat , and you will find ." So they cast it , and now they could not haul it in for the multitude of fishes . * Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter , "It is the Lord !" On hearing that it was the Lord , Simon Peter girt his fishers coat about him (for he was naked ), and threw himself into the water . * The rest of the disciples came in the boat , for they were not far from shore - only about a hundred yards - dragging in the net full of fish . * When they got to the shore they beheld a charcoal fire ready laid , with fish on it , and some bread . * "Bring some of the fish you have just caught ," Jesus told them . * So Simon Peter went and dragged the net to shore , full of large fish , a hundred and fifty-three of them ; but for all this number the net was not torn . * "Come and have breakfast ," said Jesus to them . Not one of the disciples dared ask him , "Who are you ?" Knowing that it was the Lord . * Jesus went and took bread and gave it to them , and the fish also . * This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after he had risen from among the dead . * When they were through breakfast , Jesus said to Simon Peter , "Simon , son of John , do you love me more than these others do ?" "Yes , Lord , you know that you are dear to me ." he answered . Jesus said to him , "Feed my lambs ." * He said to him a second time , "Simon , son of John , do you love me ?" He answered , "Yes , Lord , you know that you are dear to me ." "Be a shepherd to my sheep ," said Jesus . * The third time Jesus asked him , "Am I really dear to you ?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked , "Am I really dear to you ?" and he answered , "Master , you know all things , you know that you are dear to me ." * "Feed my sheep ," said Jesus . "In solemn truth I tell you that when you were young , you used to put on your own girdle , and walk wherever you wished ; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands for some one to gird you , and carry you where you do not wish to go ." * This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God . After speaking thus , he said to him , "Follow me ." * Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following - he who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said , "Lord , who is to betray you ?" * On catching sight of him , Peter said to Jesus , "Lord , what about him ?" * "If I choose that he remain until I come ," said Jesus , "what is that to you ? Do you follow me ." * Accordingly the report spread among the brothers that this disciple should not die ; but Jesus did not say that he was not to die , but said , "If I choose that he remain until I come , what is that to you ?" * It is this disciple who bears testimony to these facts and who recorded them ; and we know that his testimony is true . * But there are also many other things which Jesus did ; if every one of them were to be recorded in detail I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would have to be written . * "For John indeed baptized in water , but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence ." * On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were accustomed to meet . They were Peter and John and James and Andrew , Philip and Thomas , Bartholomew and Matthew , James , son of Alphaeus , and Simon the Zealot , and Judas the son of James . * from his baptism by John down to the day on which he was taken up from us , one should join us a witness to his resurrection ." * One day Peter and John were going up together for the hour of prayer , at three in the afternoon , * When he saw Peter and John about to go into the Temple , he kept asking them for alms ; * Peter fixed his eyes upon him , as did John , and said , "Look at us ." * While he was clinging to Peter and John , all the people crowded awe - struck around them , in what was known as Solomons Portico . * and Annas , the high priest , Caiaphas , John , Alexander , and all the members of the high priests family were present . * Now when they beheld the glad fearlessness of Peter and John and had perceived that they were amazed ; and they began to recognize them , that they were companions of Jesus . * But Peter and John said in reply . "Do you decide whether in the sight of God it is right to obey you rather than God ; * The apostle at Jerusalem , when they heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God , sent to them Peter and John . * "you know the message spread throughout all Judea , beginning in Galilee , after the baptism which John preached ; * "Then I remembered the words of the Lord , how he used to say , "John indeed baptized in water , but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit . * and beheaded James , the brother of John , with the sword . * So , after he had thought things over , he went to the house of Mary , the mother of John , surnamed Mark , where a large number of people were assembled , praying . * and after discharging their mission , Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem , bringing with them John , surnamed Mark . * They had John Mark as an assistant ; and after going through the whole island as far as Paphos , they found a certain Jewish sorcerer and false prophet , named Bar-Jesus , * From Paphos Paul and his party set sail for Perga in Pamphylia ; but John Mark left them and went back to Jerusalem . * "before whose coming John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel . * "And John , when he was finishing his race , repeatedly asked the people . "Who do you suppose that I am ? I am not He . But behold there comes One after me , whose sandal I am not worthy to unfasten . * Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John , who was called Mark . * He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord , and being full of zeal , he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus , although he knew only the baptism of John . * "Into what , then , were you baptized ?" he asked . And they said , "Into the baptism of John ." * "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance ," answered Paul , "telling the people to believe on One who was coming after him , namely , on Jesus ." * and when they recognized the grace which had been given to me , James and Cephas and John , then thought to be pillars , gave to Barnabas and to me the right hand of fellowship . They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews . * It is of what has existed from the beginning , of what we have listened to , of what we have seen with our own eyes , of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads , it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing . * And the Life was made visible , and we have seen it and are bearing witness , and are bringing you word of that Eternal Life which was face to face with the Father and was made visible to us . * It is what we have seen and heard that we are announcing to you , in order that you also may have partnership with us ; and our partnership is with the Father and with his Son , Jesus Christ . * And we are writing all this to you that our joy may be complete . * This , then , is the message that we have heard from him , and are announcing to you , that God is light , and no darkness what ever is in him . * If we say , "We have partnership with Him ," when we are passing our life in the darkness , we are lying and are not doing the truth . * But is we are passing our life in the light , as he is in the light , we ever have partnership with one another , and the blood of Jesus Christ is cleansing us from every sin . * If we say , "We have no sin ," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us . * But if we confess our sins , faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins , and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing . * If we say , "We have not sinned ," we are making him a liar , and his word is not in us . * My children , I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin ; but if any one sin , we ever have a Comforter before the Father , Jesus Christ the Righteous . * And he is the propitiation for our sins , and not for ours only , but also for those of the whole world . * This is how we may know that we have come to know Him , by always keeping his commandments . * He who says , "I know Him ," but does no continue obeying his commandments , is a liar , * and the truth is not in him ; bit if any man obey his word , in him truly is the love of God made perfect . By this we come to know that we are in him . * By who says he "remains in him " ought to spend his life as he spent his . * Beloved , I am not writing a new commandment to you , nay , and old commandment , which you have had from the beginning . That old commandment is the message to which you have listened . * Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you , which is true in him and is you ; because the darkness is passing away , and the true light is already shining . * He who says he is in the light , and hates his brother , is in darkness even until now . * But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light , and in it there is no cause of stumbling . * But he who hates his brother is in the darkness , and is spending his life in the darkness , and does not know where he is going , because the darkness has blinded his eyes . * I am writing to you , little children , because you sins are forgiven you for his names sake . * I am writing to you , fathers , because you have come to know him who is from the beginning . I am writing to you , young men , because you have fully overcome the Evil One . I have written to you , little children , because you have learned to know the father . * I have written to you , fathers , because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning . I have written to you , young men , because you are strong , and the word of God is abiding in you , and you have fully overcome the Evil One . * Love not the world , neither the things that are in the world . If any man love the world , the love of the Father is not in him . * For all that is in the world , the lust of the flesh , and the lust of the eyes , and the proud glory of life , is not from the Father , but from the world ; * and the world and its lusts are passing away , but he who ever does the will of God abides forever . * My children , this is the last hour , and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming , and now many antichrists are already risen , whence we may know that it is the last hour . * They came forth from us , but they did not belong to us . If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us , but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us . * Now you have an anointing from the Holy One , and you know all things . * I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth , but because you do know it , and know that no lie is of the truth . * Who is the liar if not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ ? This is the Antichrist , even he who disowns the Father and the Son . * Whoever denies the Son , the same has not the Father ; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also . As for you , let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you . * If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you , you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father . * And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal . * I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray . * As to you , the unction you received from him remains ever in you , and you need no teaching from any one . But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true , and is no lie , abide continually in him , as it has taught you to do . * And now continue to abide in him , my children , so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming . * If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practises righteousness has been born of him . * Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God !" And that is what we are . For this reason the world does not recognize us , because it did not know him . * We are Gods children now , beloved ; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest . But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him ; for we shall see him even as he is . * And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself , even as he is pure . * Every one who commits sin commits also lawlessness . Sin is lawlessness . * And you know that he was manifested to take away sins ; and in him is no sin . * Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin ; whoever lives in sin has not seen him , nor come to know him . * My children , let no one deceive you ; he who is working righteousness is righteous , just as he is righteous . * He who is committing sin is of the devil , because from the beginning of the devil is sinning . It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested , that he might destroy the works of the devil . * Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning , because his seed is abiding in him ; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God . * In this the children of God are manifest , and the children of the devil ; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God , nor is he who does not love his brother . * For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning , "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER ." * We are not to be like Cain , who belonged to the Evil One , and murdered his brother . And why did he murder him ? It was because his own deeds were evil , and his brothers , righteous . * Do not wonder , brothers , if the world continues to hate you . * We know that we have migrated , out of death into life , because we love our brothers . He who has no love is abiding in death . * Every one who is hating his brother is a murderer , and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him . * By this we learn to know love , because he laid down his life for us ; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers . * But whoever has this worlds goods , and beholds his brother in need , and shuts up his heart against him , how can the love of God continue to abide in him ? * My children , let us not love in word nor in talk , but in deed and in truth . * By this we shall come to know that we are really of the truth , * and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us , because God is greater than our heart and knows all things . * Beloved , if our heart condemn us not , we have confidence toward God , * and whatever we ask we are receiving from him , because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight . * His commandment is this , that we should believe in the name of his Son , Jesus Christ , and love one another as he has commanded us to do . * He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him , and Christ in him . By this we know that Christ is abiding in us , by the Spirit which he has given us . * Do not believe every spirit , beloved , but test the spirits to see whether they are of God ; for many false prophets are gone out into the world . * By this you know the Spirit of God ; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God ; * and every spirit which confesses him not , is not from God . And this is that spirit of Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming , and that now it is already in the world . * My little children , you are of God and have conquered them ; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world . * They are of the world , and for this reason they speak as of the world , and the world listens to them . * But you are of God . He who is beginning to know God listens to us ; he who is not of God does not listen to us . By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error . * Beloved , let us love one another ; for love is of God ; and every one that loves us a child of God . * He who does not love , does not know God ; for God is love . * In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us , by his sending his only Son into the world , so that we might live through him . * In this is love , not that we loved God , but that he loved us , and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins . * If God so loved us , beloved , we also ought to love one another . * No man has ever gazed on God ; but if we love one another , God ever abides in us , and his love is perfected in us . * By this we come to know that we are abiding in him , and he in us , because he has given us of his Spirit ; * and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world . * If any man confesses that "Jesus is the Son of God ." God is abiding in that man , and he in God . * And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us . God is love ; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God , and God is abiding in him . * In this is love made perfect with us , so that we may have cheerful confidence in the Day of Judgment , because we are living in this world as He lives . * Fear does not exist in love ; but love , when it is perfect , drives out fear . For fear has always torment , and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love . * We love because He loved us first . * If any one says , "I love God ," and yet hates his brother , he is a liar ; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen , cannot possibly love God , whom he has not seen . * And we have this command from God . HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO . * Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God ; and every one who loves the Father , loves him also who is the Fathers Child . * By this we know that we love the children of God , when we love God and obey his commandments . * For love to God means obeying his commandments ; and his commandments are not irksome . * For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world ; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world . * And who it the one that is overcoming the world if not the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God ? * Jesus Christ is he who came by water and blood , not by the water only , but by the water and by the blood . The spirit is he who bears testimony , because the Spirit is the truth . * For there are three who bear testimony , the Spirit , and the water , * and the blood ; and the three are one . * If we accept mens testimony , the testimony of God is greater ; for this is the testimony of God , that he has borne testimony concerning his Son . * He who believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself . He who does not believe God , has made him a liar , because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son . * And the testimony is this , "God has given us eternal life , and this life is in his Son ." * He who has the Son has the life ; he who has not the Son of God has not the life . * I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life , you who believe in the name of the Son of God . * Now the confidence which we have in him is this , that he listens to us whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will . * And if we know that he is listening to us in what ever we are asking , we know that we obtain the petitions which we have made to him . * If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly , he shall ask , and God will give him life , for any one who is not committing a deadly sin . There is a deadly sin ; concerning that I do not say that he should pray . * All unrighteousness is sin ; and there is sin that is not deadly . * We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin ; but he who is Gods child guards himself , and the Evil One never touches him . * We know that we are of God , and the whole world is lying in the Evil One . * And we know that the Son of God is come , and has granted us and understanding , so that we may come to know him who is true . And we are in him who is true , even in his Son Jesus Christ . This is the true God , and life eternal . * My little children , guard yourselves from idols . * The Elder to the Elect Lady and her children , whom I love in truth , and not only I , but also all those who have come to know the truth . * I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever . * Grace , mercy , and peace will be with us from God the Father , and from Jesus Christ the Fathers Son , in truth and love . * I am greatly rejoiced to find some of your children leading their lives in truth , even as we received commandment from the Father . * And now I am entreating you , Lady , not as though I were writing some new commandment to you , but one which we have had from the beginning , let us love one another . * And this is love , that we should lead our lives according to his commandments . This is the commandment , even as you heard from the beginning , that you should pass your life in love . * I say this because many deceivers are gone forth into the world , those who deny the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh . This is the deceiver and the Antichrist . * Watch yourselves , that you do not lose what we have wrought , but that you receive a full reward . * Whoever is going ahead , and is not abiding in the teachings of Christ , does not possess God ; but he who is abiding in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son . * If any one come to you and does not bring this teaching , do not receive him into your house , nor give him any greeting . * For the man who greets him shares in his wicked work . * I have many things to write to you , but I would not write them with paper and ink . I hope to come to you and to talk with you face to face , so that your joy may be full . * The children of your elect sister send you greeting . * The Elder to the beloved Gaius , whom I love in the truth . * I pray that you may prosper , beloved , in every way , and be in good health , even as your soul is prospering . * For I was glad when brothers came and bore testimony to your truth , as indeed you are passing your life in truth . * I have no greater joy than this , to hear that my children are passing their lives in the truth . * You are acting faithfully , beloved , in whatever you are doing for the brothers and the strangers . * They have borne testimony to your love before the church . You will do well to speed them on their way worthily of God ; * since for the sake of the Name they have started out , taking nothing from the Gentiles . * Hence we ought to support such , so that we may become fellow workers for the truth . * I have written somewhat to the church ; but Diotrephes , who love to take the lead among them , does not receive me . * Do them when I come I will recall to mind the deeds which he is doing , prating against me with wicked words . Not satisfied with that , he refuses to receive the brothers , forbids those that would receive them , and excommunicates them from the church . * Do not imitate what is evil , beloved , but that which is good . He who does good is of God ; he who does evil has never gazed on God . * All men bear testimony to Demetrius , and so does the truth itself . I also bear testimony to him ; and you know that my testimony is true . * I have a great deal to write to you , but I do not want to write you with pen and ink . * I am hoping soon to see you , and then we shall talk face to face . Peace be to you ! The friends send their salutation . Salute the friends by name . * \ul1 THE UNVEILING APOCALYPSE OF JESUS CHRIST \ul0 which God gave him to show to his slaves the things which must soon come to pass ; and he sent and made it known by his angel to his slave John . * From John to the seven churches that are in Asia the Roman Province . Grace to you , and peace from Him that is and was and is to be , and from the Seven Spirits that are before his throne , * I , John , who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus , found myself in the island called Patmos , for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus . * And I , John , am he who heard and saw these things . And after I heard and saw them , I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me .

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