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John 21
¹⁹ Jesus said this to let him know by what kind of death he would glorify God. Then Jesus told him, “Follow me.”
²⁰ Peter turned around and saw behind them the disciple Jesus loved—the one who had leaned over to Jesus during supper and asked, “Lord, who will betray you?”
²¹ Peter asked Jesus, “What about him, Lord?”
²² Jesus replied, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”
²³ So the rumor spread among the community of believers that this disciple wouldn’t die. But that isn’t what Jesus said at all. He only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”
²⁴ This disciple is the one who testifies to these events and has recorded them here. And we know that his account of these things is accurate.
²⁵ Jesus also did many other things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.
Acts 1
¹ In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach
² until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit.
³ During the forty days after his crucifixion, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.
⁴ Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before.