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Jesus Comforts His Disciples
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.
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Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
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Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
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Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
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I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
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about sin, because people do not believe in me;
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No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
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Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.”
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“Do you now believe?” Jesus replied.
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For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
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Jesus Prays for All Believers
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
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that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.
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Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.
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So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
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Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
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Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
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But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
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Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”
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In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty)
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The Fellowship of the Believers
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
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All the believers were together and had everything in common.
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But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.
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The Believers Pray
On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
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The Believers Share Their Possessions
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
