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Peter saith unto Jesus, "Lord! but he-what will befall him?" Jesus saith unto him, "If I will that he remain until I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me." This report therefore went forth among the brethren, 'That disciple dieth not.' Yet Jesus said not unto him, 'He dieth not:' but, 'If I will that he remain until I come, what is that to thee?'

This is the disciple who testifieth concerning these things, and who wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.

Now there are also many other things which Jesus did; and if they should be written one by one, I think that not even the world itself would contain the books thus written.1

SECT. VII.

Christ meets the Apostles at the appointed Mountain in

Galilee.1

MATT. xxviii, 16-20. MARK xvi. 15-18.

Now the eleven disciples departed into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had commanded them to go. And when they saw him, they did him reverential homage: but some doubted.

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, "All authority is given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature: and teach 2 all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. He that believeth and is baptized, will be saved; but he that believeth not, will be condemned. And these signs shall accompany them that believe: In my name, they shall cast

1 v. H. n. 2 Or, disciple; to disciple is of good authority.

out demons, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any thing deadly, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. And lo, I am with you always, unto the end of the world." 1

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Discourses of Christ to his Apostles, followed by his Ascension into Heaven.

MARK XVI. 19, 20.3 LUKE xxiv. 44-53.

Now he said unto them, "These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which have been written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me." Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures: and he saith unto them, "Thus it hath been written, and thus it was necessary that the Christ should suffer, and arise from the dead on the third day; and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. And ye must be witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send upon you the promise of my Father: but tarry ye in the city until ye are endued with power from on high."

And he led them out as far as to Bethany: 2 and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he was blessing them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. And they did him reverential homage, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: and they were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.

1 Or, age. 2 v. H. n. 3 The Lord, therefore, after he had spoken unto them, was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God: but they went forth, and preached every where; the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs accompanying it, Mk.: v. H. n.

The more detailed Account of the Ascension of Christ, given by Luke in Acts i. 1-14.

THE former narration I made, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,1 until the day when, after having, through the holy spirit, given charge to the Apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up into heaven: to whom also, after he suffered, he showed himself alive, by many infallible proofs; presenting himself to be seen by them during forty days, and declaring things concerning the kingdom of God.

And having assembled them together, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, "which," he said, "ye have heard from me: for John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy spirit, not many days hence." They therefore, having come together, asked him, saying, “Lord! art thou at this time restoring the kingdom to Israel?" But he said unto them, "It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father hath placed in his own disposal: but ye shall receive power when the holy spirit cometh upon you; and ye shall be witnesses to me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the extremity of the earth." 2 And having said these things, while they were beholding him, he was taken up from the cloud beneath removed him from their eyes.

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were steadfastly looking towards heaven, while he was departing, lo! two men stood near them in white raiment, who also said, "Men of Galilee! why stand ye looking up towards heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you to heaven, will come again in the same manner as ye have seen him going to heaven." Then they returned to

1 Or, both did and taught. 2 Or, of the land.

Jerusalem from the mount called the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, at a distance of a sabbath-day's journey. And when they had entered the city, they went up into the upper chamber; 1 and there abode Peter and James, and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. These all with

one consent continued in prayer, together with certain women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

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*The Page refers to the beginning of the Sect. in which the passage occurs.

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