The Commissioning of the Disciples.^* 16^f The eleven^* disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. 17^* When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. 18^{* g} Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19^h Go, therefore,^* and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, 20ⁱ teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.^* And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”

And after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger blazes against you and your two friends! You have not spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job. So now take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves, and let my servant Job pray for you. To him I will show favor, and not punish your folly, for you have not spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job.” Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the LORD had commanded them. The LORD showed favor to Job.

The LORD also restored the prosperity of Job, after he had prayed for his friends; the LORD even gave to Job twice as much as he had before. Then all his brothers and sisters came to him, and all his former acquaintances, and they dined with him in his house. They consoled and

Peter’s Speech.^* 34Then Peter proceeded to speak and said,^* “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality.^j 35Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him. 36^* You know the word [that] he sent to the Israelites^* as he proclaimed peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all,^k 37what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached,^l 38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth^* with the holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.^m 39We are witnesses^* of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and [in] Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. 40This man God raised [on] the third day and granted that he be visible, 41not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.ⁿ 42He commissioned us^o to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.^* 43To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

The Appearance to the Disciples in Jerusalem. 36^* While they were still speaking about this,^r he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^s 37But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.^t 38Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? 39^* Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” 40^u And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42They gave him a piece of baked fish;^v 43he took it and ate it in front of them.

44He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.”^w 45Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.^x 46^* And he said to them,^y “Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day 47and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.^z 48You are witnesses of these things.^a 49And [behold] I am sending the promise of my Father^* upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”^b