¹⁶He says to him again a second time: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me? He says to him: Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him: Tend my sheep.

¹⁷He says to him the third time: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him: Feed my sheep.

¹⁸Verily, verily, I say to thee, when thou wast young, thou didst gird thyself, and walk whither thou wouldst; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and lead thee whither thou wouldst not. ¹⁹And this he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he should glorify God.

And having spoken this, he says to him: Follow me. ²⁰Peter, turning about, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who also at the supper leaned back on his breast, and said: Lord, who is he that betrays thee? ²¹Peter seeing him says to Jesus: Lord, and what shall this man do? ²²Jesus says to him: If I will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee? Do thou follow me.

²³This saying therefore went abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die. And Jesus said not to him, that he should not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is it to thee?

²⁴This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true. ²⁵And there are also many other things which Jesus did; and if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written.

[THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.]

I. The former narration I made, O Theophilus, concerning all things that Jesus began both to do and to teach, ²until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he chose; ³to whom also he showed himself living, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, during forty days appearing to them, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God.

⁴And, being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which ye heard from me; ⁵for John indeed immersed in water; but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit, not many days hence.