Part 31

020:013 They spoke to her. "Why are you weeping?" they asked. "Because," she replied, "they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him."

020:014 While she was speaking, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but did not recognize Him.

020:015 "Why are you weeping?" He asked; "who are you looking for?" She, supposing that He was the gardener, replied, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him and I will remove him."

020:016 "Mary!" said Jesus. She turned to Him. "Rabboni!" she cried in Hebrew: the word means `Teacher!'

020:017 "Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: `I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

020:018 Mary of Magdala came and brought word to the disciples. "I have seen the Master," she said. And she told them that He had said these things to her.

020:019 On that same first day of the week, when it was evening and, for fear of the Jews, the doors of the house where the disciples were, were locked, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you!"

020:020 Having said this He showed them His hands and also His side; and the disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Master.

020:021 A second time, therefore, He said to them, "Peace be to you! As the Father sent me, I also now send you."

020:022 Having said this He breathed upon them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

020:023 If you remit the sins of any persons, they remain remitted to them. If you bind fast the sins of any, they remain bound."

020:024 Thomas, one of the twelve--surnamed `the Twin'--was not among them when Jesus came.

020:025 So the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Master!" His reply was, "Unless I see in his hands the wound made by the nails and put my finger into the wound, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it."

020:026 A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them, when Jesus came--though the doors were locked-- and stood in their midst, and said, "Peace be to you."

020:027 Then He said to Thomas, "Bring your finger here and feel my hands; bring you hand and put it into my side; and do not be ready to disbelieve but to believe."

020:028 "My Lord and my God!" replied Thomas.

020:029 "Because you have seen me," replied Jesus, "you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

020:030 There were also a great number of other signs which Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book.

020:031 But these have been recorded in order that you may believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, through believing, you may have Life through His name.

021:001 After this, Jesus again showed Himself to the disciples. It was at the Lake of Tiberias. The circumstances were as follows.

021:002 Simon Peter was with Thomas, called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zabdi, and two others of the Master's disciples.

021:003 Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." "We will go too," said they. So they set out and went on board their boat; but they caught nothing that night.

021:004 When, however, day was now dawning, Jesus stood on the beach, though the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

021:005 He called to them. "Children," He said, "have you any food there?" "No," they answered.

021:006 "Throw the net in on the right hand side," He said, "and you will find fish." So they threw the net in, and now they could scarcely drag it along for the quantity of fish.

021:007 This made the disciple whom Jesus loved say to Peter, "It is the Master." Simon Peter therefore, when he heard the words, "It is the Master," drew on his fisherman's shirt-- for he had not been wearing it--put on his girdle, and sprang into the water.

021:008 But the rest of the disciples came in the small boat (for they were not far from land--only about a hundred yards off), dragging the net full of fish.

021:009 As soon as they landed, they saw a charcoal fire burning there, with fish broiling on it, and bread close by.