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Luke was one of the first non-Jewish
converts to Christianity, a valued and

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loyal companion of the Apostle Paul.

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He traveled extensively with him
throughout the Middle East and Europe.

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In my former book, Theophilus,
I wrote about all that Jesus began to do

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and to teach until the day he was taken up
to heaven.

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After giving instructions through the Holy
Spirit to the apostles he had chosen,

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after his suffering, he showed himself to
these men and gave many convincing proofs

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that he was alive.

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He appeared to them over a period of 40
days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

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On one occasion, while he was eating with
them, he gave them this command.

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Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the
gift my father promised which you have

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heard me speak about.

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For John baptized with water, but in a few
days he will be baptized with the Holy

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Spirit.

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So when they met together, they asked him,
Lord, are you at this time going to

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restore the kingdom to Israel?

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He said to them, it is not for you to know
the times or dates the father has set by

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his own authority, but you will receive
power when the Holy Spirit comes on you,

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and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem
and in all Judea and Samaria and to the

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ends of the earth.

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After he said this, he was taken up before
their very eyes

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and a cloud hid him from their sight.

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They were looking intently up into the sky
as he was going when suddenly two men

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dressed in white stood beside them.

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Men of Galilee, they said, why do you
stand here looking into the sky?

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The same Jesus who has been taken from you
into heaven will come back in the same way

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you have seen him go into heaven.

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Then they returned to Jerusalem from the
hill called the Mount of Olives,

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the Sabbath day's walk from the city.

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When they arrived, they went upstairs to
the room where they were staying.

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Those present were Peter, John,
James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,

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Bartholomew and Matthew, James,
son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot,

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and Judas, son of James.

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They all joined together constantly in
prayer along with the women and Mary,

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the mother of Jesus, and with his
brothers.

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In those days, Peter stood up among the
believers, a group numbering about 120,

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and said, Brothers, the scripture had to
be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke

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long ago, through the mouth of David,
concerning Judas, who served as guide for

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those who arrested Jesus.

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He was one of our number and shared in
this ministry.

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With the reward he got for his wickedness,
Judas bought a field.

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There he fell headlong, his body burst
open and all his intestines spilled out.

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Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this.

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So they called that field in their
language a Keldama, that is, field of

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blood.

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For, said Peter, it is written in the book
of Psalms, May his place be deserted,

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let there be no one to dwell in it,
and may another take his place of

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leadership.

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Therefore, it is necessary to choose one
of the men who have been with us the whole

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time the Lord Jesus went in and out among
us, beginning from John's baptism to the

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time when Jesus was taken up from us.

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For one of these must become a witness
with us of his resurrection.

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So they proposed two men, Joseph,
called Versavus, also known as Justice,

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and Matthias.

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Then they prayed.

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Lord, you know everyone's heart.

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Show us which of these two you have chosen
to take over this apostolic ministry,

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which Judas left to go where he belongs.

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Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to
Matthias.

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So he was added to the eleven apostles.

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When the day of Pentecost came,
they were all together in one place.

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Suddenly, a sound like the blowing of a
violent wind came from heaven and filled

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the whole house where they were sitting.

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They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire
that separated and came to rest on each of

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them.

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All of them were filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in other tongues

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as the Spirit enabled.

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Now they were staying in Jerusalem,
God-fearing Jews from every nation under

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heaven.

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When they heard this sound, a crowd came
together in bewilderment because each one

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heard them speaking in his own language.

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Utterly amazed, they asked, Are not all
these men who are speaking Galileans?

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Then how is it that each of us hears them
in his own native language?

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Barthians, Medes, and Elamites,
residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and

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Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and
Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya,

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Myrthyrine, visitors from Rome,
both Jews and converts to Judaism,

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Gretens and Arabs.

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We hear them declaring the wonders of God
in our own tongues.

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Amazed and perplexed, they asked one
another, What does this mean?

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Some, however, made fun of them and said,
They have had too much wine.

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Then Peter stood up with the eleven,
raised his voice and addressed the crowd.

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Fellow Jews and all of you who live in
Jerusalem, let me explain this to you.

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Listen carefully to what I say.

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These men are not drunk, as you suppose.

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It's only nine in the morning.

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No, this is what was spoken by the prophet
Joel.

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In the last days, God says, I will pour
out my spirit on all people.

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Your sons and daughters will prophesy.

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Your young men will see visions.

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Your old men will dream dreams.

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Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my spirit in those days

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and they will prophesy.

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I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below.

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Blood and fire and billows of smoke.

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The sun will be turned to darkness and the
moon to blood before the coming of the

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great and glorious day of the Lord.

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And everyone who calls on the name of the
Lord will be saved.

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Men of Israel, listen to this.

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Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by
God to you by miracles, wonders,

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and signs, which God did among you,
through him as you yourselves know.

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This man was handed over to you by God's
set purpose and foreknowledge.

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And you, with the help of wicked men,
put him to death by nailing him to the

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cross.

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But God raised him from the dead,
freeing him from the agony of death,

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because it was impossible for death to
keep its hold on him.

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David said about him, I saw the Lord
always before me.

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Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.

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Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue
rejoices.

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My body also will live in hope,
because you will not abandon me to the

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grave, nor will you let your Holy One see
decay.

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You have made known to me the paths of
life.

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You will fill me with joy in your
presence.

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Brothers, I can tell you confidently that
the patriarch David died and was buried.

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And his tomb is here to this day.

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But he was a prophet and knew that God had
promised him on oath that he would place

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one of his descendants on his throne.

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Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the
resurrection of the Christ, that he was

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not abandoned to the grave, nor did his
body see decay.

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God has raised this Jesus to life,
and we are all witnesses of the fact.

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Exalted to the right hand of God,
he has received from the Father the

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promised Holy Spirit, and has poured out
what you now see and hear.

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For David did not ascend to heaven,
and yet he said, The Lord said to my Lord,

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sit at my right hand until I make your
enemies, a footstool for your feet.

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Therefore, let all Israel be assured of
this.

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God has made this Jesus, whom you
crucified, both Lord and Christ.

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When the people heard this, they were cut
to the heart and said to Peter and the

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other apostles, Brothers, what shall we
do?

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Peter replied, Repent and be baptized,
every one of you.

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In the name of Jesus Christ, for the
forgiveness of your sins,

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and you will receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit.

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The promise is for you and your children,
and for all who are far off, for all whom

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the Lord, our God, will call.

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With many other words he warned them,
and he pleaded with them, Save yourselves

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from this corrupt generation.

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Those who accepted his message were
baptized, and about 3,000 were added to

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their number that day.

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They devoted themselves to the apostles'
teaching, and to the fellowship,

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to the breaking of bread, and to prayer.

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Everyone was filled with awe, and many
wonders and miraculous signs were done by

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the apostles.

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All the believers were together,
and had everything in common, selling

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their possessions and goods they gave to
anyone as he had need.

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Every day they continued to meet together
in the temple courts.

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They broke bread in their homes,
and ate together with glad and zealous

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hearts.

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They prayed with sincere hearts,
praising God, and enjoying the favor of

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all the people.

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And the Lord added to their number daily
those who were being saved.

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One day, Peter and John were going up to
the temple at the time of prayer,

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at three in the afternoon.

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Now a man crippled from birth was being
carried to the temple gate called

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Beautiful, where he was put every day to
beg from those going into the temple

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courts.

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When he saw Peter and John about to enter,
he asked them for money.

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Peter looked straight at him, as did John.

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Then Peter said, Look at us.

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So the man gave them his attention,
expecting to get something from them.

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Then Peter said, Silver or gold I do not
have, but what I have I give you.

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In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
walk.

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Taking him by the right hand, he helped
him up.

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And instantly the man's feet and ankles
became strong.

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He jumped to his feet and began to walk.

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Then he went with them into the temple
courts, walking and jumping and praising

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God.

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When all the people saw him walking and
praising God, they recognized him as the

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same man who used to sit begging at the
temple gate called Beautiful.

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And they were filled with wonder and
amazement at what had happened to him.

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While the beggar held on to Peter and
John, all the people were astonished and

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came running to them in the place called
Solomon's Colonnade.

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When Peter saw this, he said to them,
Men of Israel, why does this surprise you?

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Why do you stare at us as if by our own
power or godliness we had made this man

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walk?

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The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
the God of our fathers has glorified his

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servant Jesus.

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You handed him over to be killed and you
disowned him before Pilate, though he had

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decided to let him go.

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You disowned the holy and righteous one
and asked that a murderer be released to

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you.

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You killed the author of life.

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But God raised him from the dead.

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We are witnesses of this.

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By faith in the name of Jesus,
this man whom you see and know was made

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strong.

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It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes
through him that has given this complete

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healing to him, as you can all see.

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Now, brothers, I know that you acted in
ignorance, as did your leaders.

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But this is how God fulfilled what he had
foretold through all the prophets,

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saying that his Christ would suffer.

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Repent, then, and turn to God,
so that your sins may be wiped out,

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that times of refreshing may come from the
Lord, and that he may send the Christ who

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has been appointed for you, even Jesus.

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He must remain in heaven until the time
comes for God to restore everything,

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as he promised long ago through his holy
prophets.

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For Moses said, The Lord your God will
raise up for you a prophet like me from

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among your own people.

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You must listen to everything he tells
you.

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Anyone who does not listen to him will be
completely cut off from among his people.

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Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on,
as many as have spoken, have foretold

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these days.

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And you are heirs of the prophets and of
the covenant God made with your fathers.

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He said to Abraham, Through your
offspring, all peoples on earth will be

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blessed.

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When God raised up his servant,
he sent him first to you to bless you by

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turning each of you from your wicked ways.

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The priests and the captain of the temple
guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter

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and John while they were speaking to the
people.

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They were greatly disturbed because the
apostles were teaching the people and

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proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of
the dead.

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They seized Peter and John, and because it
was evening, they put them in jail until

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the next day.

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But many who heard the message believed,
and the number of men grew to about five

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thousand.

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The next day the rulers, elders,
and teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.

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Annas the high priest was there,
and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander,

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and the other men of the high priest's
family.

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They had Peter and John brought before
them and began to question them.

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By what power or what name did you do
this?

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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit,
said to them, Rulers and elders of the

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people, if we are being called to account
today for an act of kindness shown to a

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cripple and are asked how he was healed,
then know this, you and all the people of

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Israel.

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It is by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom you crucified, but whom God

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raised from the dead, that this man stands
before you healed.

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He is the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the capstone.

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Salvation is found in no one else,
for there is no other name under heaven

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given to men by which we must be saved.

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When they saw the courage of Peter and
John and realized that they were

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unschooled, ordinary men, they were
astonished, and they took note that these

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men had been with Jesus.

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But since they could see the man who had
been healed standing there with them,

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there was nothing they could say.

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So they ordered them to withdraw from the
Sanhedrin and then conferred together.

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What are we going to do with these men?

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They asked.

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Everybody living in Jerusalem knows they
have done an outstanding miracle,

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and we cannot deny it.

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But to stop this thing from spreading any
further among the people, we must warn

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these men to speak no longer to anyone in
this name.

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Then they called them in again and
commanded them not to speak or teach at

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all in the name of Jesus.

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But Peter and John replied, Judge for
yourselves whether it is right in God's

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sight to obey you rather than God,
for we cannot help speaking about what we

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have seen and heard.

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After further threats, they let them go.

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They could not decide how to punish them
because all the people were praising God

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for what had happened, for the man who was
miraculously healed was over 40 years old.

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On their release, Peter and John went back
to their own people and reported all that

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the chief priests and elders had said to
them.

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When they heard this, they raised their
voices together in prayer to God.

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Sovereign Lord, they said, you made the
heaven and the earth and the sea and

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everything in them.

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You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the
mouth of your servant, our father David.

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Why do the nations rage and the peoples
plot in vain?

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The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together against the

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Lord.

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And against his anointed one.

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Indeed, Herod and Pontius Pilate met
together with the Gentiles and the people

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of Israel in this city to conspire against
your holy servant, Jesus, whom you

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anointed.

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They did what your power and will had
decided beforehand should happen.

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Now, Lord, consider their threats and
enable your servants to speak your word

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with great boldness.

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Stretch out your hand to heal and perform
miraculous signs and wonders through the

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name of your holy servant, Jesus.

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After they prayed, the place where they
were meeting was shaken and they were all

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filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the
word of God boldly.

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All the believers were one in heart and
mind.

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No one claimed that any of his possessions
was his own, but they shared everything

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they had.

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With great power, the apostles continued
to testify to the resurrection of the Lord

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Jesus and much grace was upon them all.

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There were no needy persons among them,
for from time to time, those who owned

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lands or houses sold them, brought the
money from the sales and put it at the

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apostles' feet and it was distributed to
anyone as he had need.

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Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the
apostles called Barnabas, which means son

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of encouragement, sold a field he owned
and brought the money and put it at the

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apostles' feet.

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Now a man named Ananias, together with his
wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of

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property.

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With his wife's full knowledge,
he kept back part of the money for

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himself, but brought the rest and put it
at the apostles' feet.

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Then Peter said, Ananias, how is it that
Satan has so filled your heart that you

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have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept
for yourself some of the money you

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received for the land?

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Didn't it belong to you before it was
sold?

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And after it was sold, wasn't the money at
your disposal?

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What made you think of doing such a thing?

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You have not lied to men, but to God.

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When Ananias heard this, he fell down and
died.

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And great fear seized all who heard what
had happened.

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Then the young men came forward,
wrapped up his body and carried him out

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and buried him.

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About three hours later, his wife came in,
not knowing what had happened.

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Peter asked her, tell me, is this the
price you and Ananias got for the land?

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Yes, she said, that is the price.

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Peter said to her, how could you agree to
test the spirit of the Lord?

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Look, the feet of the men who buried her
husband are at the door, and they will

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carry you out also.

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At that moment, she fell down at his feet
and died.

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Then the young men came in, and finding
her dead, carried her out and buried her

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beside her husband.

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Great fear seized the whole church and all
who heard about these events.

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The apostles performed many miraculous
signs and wonders among the people,

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and all the believers used to meet
together in Solomon's colonnade.

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No one else dared join them, even though
they were highly regarded by the people.

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Nevertheless, more and more men and women
believed in the Lord and were added to

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their number.

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As a result, people brought the sick into
the streets and laid them on beds and

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mats, so that at least Peter's shadow
might fall on some of them as he passed

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by.

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Crowds gathered also from the towns around
Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those

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tormented by evil spirits, and all of them
were healed.

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Then the high priest and all his
associates, who were members of the party

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of the Sadducees, were filled with joy.

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They arrested the apostles and put them in
the public jail.

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But during the night, an angel of the Lord
opened the doors of the jail and brought

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them out.

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Go stand in the temple courts,
he said, and tell the people the full

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message of this new life.

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At daybreak, they entered the temple
courts, as they had been told,

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and began to teach the people.

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When the high priest and his associates
arrived, they called together the

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Sanhedrin, the full assembly of the elders
of Israel, and sent to the jail for the

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apostles.

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But on arriving at the jail, the officers
did not find them there.

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So they went back and reported.

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We found the jail securely locked with the
guard standing at the doors, but when we

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opened them, we found no one inside.

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On hearing this report, the captain of the
temple guard and the chief priest were

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puzzled, wondering what would come of
this.

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Then someone came and said, Look,
the men you put in jail are standing in

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the temple courts, teaching the people.

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At that, the captain went with his
officers and brought the apostles.

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They did not use force because they feared
that the people would stone them.

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Having brought the apostles, they made
them appear before the Sanhedrin to be

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questioned by the high priest.

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We gave you strict orders not to teach in
this name, he said, yet you have filled

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Jerusalem with your teaching and are
determined to make us guilty of this man's

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blood.

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Peter and the other apostles replied,
We must obey God rather than men.

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The God of our fathers raised Jesus from
the dead, whom you had killed by hanging

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him on a tree.

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God exalted him to his own right hand as
prince and savior, that he might give

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repentance and forgiveness of sins to
Israel.

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We are witnesses of these things,
and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has

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given to those who obey him.

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When they heard this, they were furious
and wanted to put them to death.

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But a Pharisee named Gamaliel,
a teacher of the law, who was honored by

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all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin
and ordered that the men be put outside

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for a little while.

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Then he addressed them, Men of Israel,
consider carefully what you intend to do

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to these men.

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Some time ago, Theodosias appeared,
claiming to be somebody, and about four

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hundred men rallied to him.

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He was killed.

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All his followers were dispersed,
and it all came to nothing.

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After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in
the days of the census and led a band of

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people in revolt.

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He too was killed, and all his followers
were scattered.

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Therefore, in the present case,
I advise you, leave these men alone.

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Let them go.

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For if their purpose or activity is of
human origin, it will fail.

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But if it is from God, you will not be
able to stop these men.

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You will only find yourselves fighting
against God.

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His speech persuaded them.

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They called the apostles in and had them
flogged.

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Then they ordered them not to speak in the
name of Jesus and let them go.

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The apostles left the Sanhedrin,
rejoicing, because they had been counted

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worthy of suffering disgrace for the name.

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Day after day, in the temple courts and
from house to house, they never stopped

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teaching and proclaiming the good news
that Jesus is the Christ.

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In those days, when the number of
disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews

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among them complained against the Hebraic
Jews because their widows were being

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overlooked in the daily distribution of
food.

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So the twelve gathered all the disciples
together and said it would not be right

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for us to neglect the ministry of the word
of God in order to wait on tables.

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Brothers, choose seven men from among you
who are known to be full of the spirit and

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wisdom.

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We will turn this responsibility over to
them and we'll give our attention to

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prayer and the ministry of the word.

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This proposal pleased the whole group.

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They chose Stephen, a man full of faith
and of the Holy Spirit.

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Also Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor,
Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas from

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Antioch, a convert to Judaism.

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They presented these men to the apostles
who prayed and laid their hands on them.

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So the word of God spread.

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The number of disciples in Jerusalem
increased rapidly and a large number of

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priests became obedient to the faith.

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Now Stephen, a man full of God's grace and
power, did great wonders and miraculous

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signs among the people.

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Opposition arose, however, from members of
the synagogue of the freedmen,

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as it was called, Jews of Cyrene and
Alexandria, as well as the provinces of

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Silesia and Asia.

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These men began to argue with Stephen,
but they could not stand up against his

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wisdom or the spirit by whom he spoke.

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Then they secretly persuaded some men to
say, we have heard Stephen speak words of

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blasphemy against Moses and against God.

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So they stirred up the people and the
elders and the teachers of the law.

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They seized Stephen and brought him before
the Sanhedrin.

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They produced false witnesses who
testified, This fellow never stopped

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speaking against this holy place and
against the law.

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For we have heard him say that this Jesus
of Nazareth will destroy this place and

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change the customs Moses handed down to
us.

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All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin
looked intently at Stephen, and they saw

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that his face was like the face of an
angel.

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Then the high priest asked him,
Are these charges true?

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To this he replied, Brothers and fathers,
listen to me.

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The God of glory appeared to our father
Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia,

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before he lived in Haran.

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Leave your country and your people,
God said, and go to the land I will show

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you.

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So he left the land of the Chaldeans and
settled in Haran.

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After the death of his father,
God sent him to this land where you are

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now living.

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He gave him no inheritance here,
not even a foot of ground.

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But God promised him that he and his
descendants after him would possess the

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land.

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Even though at that time Abraham had no
child, God spoke to him in this way,

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Your descendants will be strangers in a
country not their own, and they will be

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enslaved and mistreated four hundred
years.

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But I will punish the nation they serve as
slaves, God said, and afterward they will

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come out of that country and worship me in
this place.

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Then he gave Abraham the covenant of
circumcision, and Abraham became the

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father of Isaac and circumcised him eight
days after his birth.

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Later, Isaac became the father of Jacob,
and Jacob became the father of the twelve

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patriarchs.

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Because the patriarchs were jealous of
Joseph, they sold him as a slave into

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Egypt, but God was with him and rescued
him from all his troubles.

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He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to
gain the goodwill of Pharaoh, king of

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Egypt.

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So he made him ruler over Egypt and all
his palace.

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Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan,
bringing great suffering, and our fathers

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could not find food.

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When Jacob heard that there was grain in
Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first

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visit.

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On their second visit, Joseph told his
brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned

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about Joseph's family.

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After this, Joseph sent for his father
Jacob and his whole family, 75 in all.

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Then Jacob went down to Egypt,
where he and our fathers died.

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Their bodies were brought back to Shechem
and placed in a tomb that Abraham had

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bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem
for a certain sum of money.

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As the time drew near for God to fulfill
his promise to Abraham, the number of our

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people in Egypt greatly increased.

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Then another king, who knew nothing about
Joseph, became ruler of Egypt.

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He dealt treacherously with our people and
oppressed our forefathers by forcing them

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to throw out their newborn babies so that
they would die.

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At that time, Moses was born, and he was
no ordinary child.

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For three months, he was cared for in his
father's house.

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When he was placed outside, Pharaoh's
daughter took him and brought him up as

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her own son.

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Moses was educated in all the wisdom of
the Egyptians and was powerful in speech

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and action.

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When Moses was 40 years old, he decided to
visit his fellow Israelites.

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He saw one of them being mistreated by an
Egyptian, so he went to his defense and

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avenged him by killing the Egyptian.

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Moses thought that his own people would
realize that God was using him to rescue

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them, but they did not.

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The next day, Moses came upon two
Israelites who were fighting.

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He tried to reconcile them by saying,
Men, you are brothers.

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Why do you want to hurt each other?

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But the man who was mistreating the other
pushed Moses aside and said, Who made you

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ruler and judge over us?

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Do you want to kill me as you killed the
Egyptian yesterday?

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When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian,
where he settled as a foreigner and had

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two sons.

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After 40 years had passed, an angel
appeared to Moses in the flames of a

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burning bush in the desert near Mount
Sinai.

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When he saw this, he was amazed at the
sight.

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As he went over to look more closely,
he heard the Lord's voice.

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I am the God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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Moses trembled with fear and did not dare
to look.

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Then the Lord said to him, Take off your
sandals.

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The place where you are standing is holy
ground.

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I have indeed seen the oppression of my
people in Egypt.

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I have heard their groaning and have come
down to set them free.

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Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.

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This is the same Moses whom they had
rejected with the words, Who made you

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ruler and judge?

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He was sent to be their ruler and
deliverer by God himself through the angel

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who appeared to him in the bush.

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He led them out of Egypt and did wonders
and miraculous signs in Egypt,

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at the Red Sea, and for 40 years in the
desert.

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This is that Moses who told the
Israelites, God will send you a prophet

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like me from your own people.

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He was in the assembly in the desert with
the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai

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and with our fathers.

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And he received living words to pass on to
us.

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But our fathers refused to obey him.

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Instead, they rejected him and in their
hearts turned back to Egypt.

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They told Aaron, make us gods who will go
before us.

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As for this fellow Moses who led us out of
Egypt, we don't know what has happened to

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him.

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That was the time they made an idol in the
form of a calf.

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They brought sacrifices to it and held a
celebration in honor of what their hands

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had made.

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But God turned away and gave them over to
the worship of the heavenly bodies.

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This agrees with what is written in the
book of the prophets.

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Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the desert, O house of

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Israel?

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You have lifted up the shrine of Molech
and the star of your god, Riphon,

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the idols you made to worship.

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Therefore, I will send you into exile
beyond Babylon.

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Our forefathers had the tabernacle of the
testimony with them in the desert.

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It had been made as God directed Moses
according to the pattern he had seen.

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Having received the tabernacle,
our fathers under Joshua brought it with

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them when they took the land from the
nations God drove out before them.

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It remained in the land until the time of
David, who enjoyed God's favor and asked

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that he might provide a dwelling place for
the god of Jacob.

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He did not provide a dwelling place for
Jacob, but it was Solomon who built a

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house for him.

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However, the Most High does not live in
houses made by men.

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As the prophet says, heaven is my throne
and the earth is my footstool.

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What kind of house will you build for me,
says the Lord?

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Where will my resting place be?

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Has not my hand made all these things?

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You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised
hearts and ears.

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You are just like your fathers.

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You always resist the Holy Spirit.

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Was there ever a prophet?

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Your fathers did not persecute.

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They even killed those who predicted the
coming of the righteous one.

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And now you have betrayed and murdered
him.

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You, who have received the law that was
put into effect through angels,

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but have not obeyed it.

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When they heard this, they were furious
and gnashed their teeth at him.

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But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit,
looked up to heaven and saw the glory of

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God and Jesus standing at the right hand
of God.

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Look, he said, I see heaven open and the
Son of Man standing at the right hand of

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God.

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Yes, they covered their ears, yelling at
the top of their voice as they all rushed

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in.

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Dragged him out of the city and began to
stone him.

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Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their
clothes at the feet of a young man named

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Saul.

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While they were stoning him, Stephen
prayed.

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Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

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Then he fell on his knees and cried out.

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Lord, do not hold this sin against them.

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He had said yes.

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And Saul was there, giving approval to his
death.

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On that day, a great persecution broke out
against the church in Jerusalem.

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All except the apostles were scattered
throughout Judea and Samaria.

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Godly men buried Stephen and mourned
deeply for him.

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But Saul began to destroy the church.

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Going from house to house, he dragged off
men and women and put them in prison.

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Those who had been scattered preached the
word wherever they went.

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Philip went down to a city in Samaria and
proclaimed the Christ there.

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When the crowds heard Philip and saw the
miraculous signs he did, they all paid

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close attention to what he said.

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With shrieks, evil spirits came out of
many, and many paralytics and cripples

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were healed.

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So there was great joy in that city.

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Now for some time, a man named Simon had
practiced sorcery in the city and amazed

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all the people of Samaria.

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He boasted that he was someone great,
and all the people, both high and low,

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gave him their attention and exclaimed,
This man is the divine power, known as the

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great power.

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They followed him because he had amazed
them for a long time with his magic.

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But when they believed Philip as he
preached the good news of the kingdom of

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God in the name of Jesus Christ,
they were baptized, both men and women.

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Simon himself believed and was baptized,
and he followed Philip everywhere,

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astonished by the great signs and miracles
he saw.

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When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that
Samaria had accepted the word of God,

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they sent Peter and John to them.

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When they arrived, they prayed for them
that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

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because the Holy Spirit had not yet come
upon any of them.

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They had simply been baptized into the
name of the Lord Jesus.

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Then Peter and John placed their hands on
them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

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When Simon saw that the Spirit was given
at the laying on of the apostles' hands,

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he offered them money and said,
Give me also this ability, so that

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everyone on whom I lay my hands may
receive the Holy Spirit.

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Peter answered, May your money perish with
you, because you thought you could buy the

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gift of God with money.

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You have no part or share in this
ministry, because your heart is not right

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before God.

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Repent of this wickedness and pray to the
Lord.

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Perhaps he will forgive you for having
such a thought in your heart.

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For I see that you are full of bitterness
and captive to sin.

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Then Simon answered, Pray to the Lord for
me, so that nothing you have said may

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happen to me.

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When they had testified and proclaimed the
word of the Lord, Peter and John returned

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to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many
Samaritan villages.

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Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip,
Go south to the road, the desert road that

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goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.

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So he started out,

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and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch,
an important official in charge of all the

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treasury of Candace, queen of the
Ethiopian.

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This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
and on his way home was sitting in his

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chariot, reading the book of Isaiah the
prophet.

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The spirit told Philip, Go to that
chariot, and stay near it.

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Then Philip ran up to the chariot and
heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet.

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Do you understand what you're reading?

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Philip asked.

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How can I?

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He said.

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Unless someone explains it to me.

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So he invited Philip to come up and sit
with him.

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The eunuch was reading this passage of
scripture.

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He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before the shearer is

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silent, so he did not open his mouth.

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In his humiliation, he was deprived of
justice.

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Who can speak of his descendants?

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For his life was taken from the earth.

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The eunuch asked Philip.

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Tell me please, who is the prophet talking
about?

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Himself or someone else?

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Then Philip began with that very passage
of scripture and told him the good news

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about Jesus.

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As they traveled along the road,
they came to some water, and the eunuch

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said, Look, here is water.

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Why shouldn't I be baptized?

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And he gave orders to stop the chariot.

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Then both Philip and the eunuch went down
into the water, and Philip baptized him.

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When they came up out of the water,
the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took

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Philip away.

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And the eunuch did not see him again,
but went on his way rejoicing.

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Philip, however, appeared at Assetus and
traveled about preaching the gospel in all

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the towns until he reached Caesarea.

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Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out
murderous threats against the Lord's

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disciples.

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He went to the high priests and asked him
for letters to the synagogues in Damascus,

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so that if he found any there who belonged
to the way, whether men or women,

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he might take them as prisoners to
Jerusalem.

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As he neared Damascus on his journey,
suddenly a light from heaven flashed

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around him.

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He fell to the ground and heard a voice
say to him, Saul, Saul, Saul, why do you

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persecute me?

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Who are you, Lord?

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Saul asked.

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I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,
he replied.

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Now get up and go into the city,
and you will be told what you must do.

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The men traveling with Saul stood there
speechless.

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They heard the sound, but did not see
anyone.

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Saul got up from the ground, but when he
opened his eyes, he could see nothing.

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So they led him by the hand into Damascus.

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For three days he was blind and did not
eat or drink anything.

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In

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Damascus, there was a disciple named
Ananias.

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The Lord called to him in a vision.

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Ananias.

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Yes, Lord, he answered.

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The Lord told him, go to the house of
Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man

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from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.

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In a vision, he has seen a man named
Ananias come and place his hands on him to

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restore his sight.

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Lord.

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Ananias answered.

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I've heard many reports about this man and
of all the harm he has done to your saints

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in Jerusalem.

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And he has come here with authority from
the chief priests to arrest all who call

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on your name.

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But the Lord said to Ananias, go.

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This man is my chosen instrument to carry
my name before the Gentiles and their

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kings and before the people of Israel.

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I will show him how much he must suffer
for my name.

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Then Ananias went to the house and entered
it.

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Placing his hands on Saul, he said,
Brother Saul,

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the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the
road as you were coming here, has sent me

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so that you may see again and be filled
with the Holy Spirit.

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Immediately, something like scales fell
from Saul's eyes and he could see again.

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He got up and was baptized.

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And after taking some food, he regained
his strength.

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Saul spent several days with the disciples
in Damascus.

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At once, he began to preach in the
synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.

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All those who heard it were astonished and
asked, Isn't he the man who raised havoc

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in Jerusalem among those who call on this
name?

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And hasn't he come here to take them as
prisoners to the chief priests?

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Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and
baffled the Jews living in Damascus by

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proving that Jesus is the Christ.

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After many days had gone by, the Jews
conspired to kill him.

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But Saul learned of their plan.

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Day and night, they kept close watch on
the city gates in order to kill him.

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But his followers took him by night and
lured him in a basket through an opening

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in the wall.

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When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to
join the disciples, but they were all

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afraid of him, not believing that he
really was a disciple.

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But Barnabas took him and brought him to
the apostles.

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He told them how Saul on his journey had
seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken

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to him, and how in Damascus he had
preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.

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So Saul stayed with them and moved about
freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in

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the name of the Lord.

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He talked and debated with the Grecian
Jews, but they tried to kill him.

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When the brothers learned of this,
they took him down to Caesarea and sent

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him off to Tarsus.

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Then the church throughout Judea,
Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed a time of

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peace.

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It was strengthened and encouraged by the
Holy Spirit.

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It grew in numbers, living in the fear of
the Lord.

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As Peter traveled about the country,
he went to visit the saints in Lydah.

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There he found a man named Aeneas,
a paralytic who'd been bedridden for eight

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years.

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Aeneas, Peter said to him, Jesus Christ
heals you.

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Get up and take care of your mat.

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Immediately Aeneas got up.

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All those who lived in Lydah and Sharon
saw him and turned to the Lord.

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In Joppa, there was a disciple named
Tabitha, which when translated as Dorcas,

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who was always doing good and helping the
poor.

01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:25.940
Now about that time, she became sick and
died and her body was washed and placed in

01:00:25.940 --> 01:00:26.840
an upstairs room.

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Now Lydah was near Joppa, so when the
disciples heard that Peter was in Lydah,

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they sent two men to him and urged him,
please come at once.

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Peter went with them and when he arrived,
he was taken upstairs to the room.

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All the widows stood around him crying and
showing him the robes and other clothing

01:00:45.460 --> 01:00:48.160
that Dorcas had made while she was still
with them.

01:00:50.660 --> 01:00:52.740
Peter sent them all out of the room.

01:00:54.120 --> 01:00:56.740
Then he got down on his knees and prayed.

01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:03.000
Turning toward the dead woman,
he said, Tabitha, get up.

01:01:04.460 --> 01:01:08.400
She opened her eyes and seeing Peter,
she sat up.

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He took her by the hand and helped her to
her feet.

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Then he called the believers and the
widows and presented her to them alive.

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Ah, this became known all over Joppa and
many people believed in the Lord.

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Peter stayed in Joppa for some time with a
tanner named Simon.

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At Caesarea, there was a man named
Cornelius, a centurion in what was known

01:01:53.470 --> 01:01:54.710
as the Italian regiment.

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He and all his family were devout and
God-fearing.

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He gave generously to those in need and
prayed to God regularly.

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One day at about three in the afternoon,
he had a vision.

01:02:11.770 --> 01:02:18.130
He distinctly saw an angel of God who came
to him and said, Cornelius, Cornelius

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stared at him in fear.

01:02:19.970 --> 01:02:20.970
What is it Lord?

01:02:21.170 --> 01:02:21.830
He asked.

01:02:22.370 --> 01:02:26.990
The angel answered, your prayers and gifts
to the poor have come up as a memorial

01:02:26.990 --> 01:02:28.370
offering before God.

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Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man
named Simon, who is called Peter.

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He is staying with Simon the Tanner,
whose house is by the sea.

01:02:42.410 --> 01:02:46.690
When the angel who spoke to him had gone,
Cornelius called two of his servants and a

01:02:46.690 --> 01:02:48.910
devout soldier who was one of his
attendants.

01:02:53.210 --> 01:02:56.450
He told them everything that had happened
and sent them to Joppa.

01:02:58.230 --> 01:03:02.310
About noon the following day, as they were
on their journey and approaching the city,

01:03:02.430 --> 01:03:04.030
Peter went up on the roof to pray.

01:03:04.830 --> 01:03:09.030
He became hungry and wanted something to
eat and while the meal was being prepared,

01:03:09.170 --> 01:03:10.210
he fell into a trance.

01:03:10.930 --> 01:03:15.890
He saw heaven opened and something like a
large sheet being let down to earth by its

01:03:15.890 --> 01:03:16.530
four corners.

01:03:16.890 --> 01:03:21.790
It contained all kinds of four-footed
animals as well as reptiles of the earth

01:03:21.790 --> 01:03:23.070
and birds of the air.

01:03:23.850 --> 01:03:26.690
Then a voice told him, get up Peter,
kill and eat.

01:03:26.910 --> 01:03:28.330
Surely not Lord, Peter replied.

01:03:28.650 --> 01:03:31.890
I have never eaten anything impure or
unclean.

01:03:32.390 --> 01:03:36.630
The voice spoke to him a second time,
do not call anything impure that God has

01:03:36.630 --> 01:03:37.230
made clean.

01:03:38.750 --> 01:03:43.850
This happened three times and immediately
the sheet was taken back to heaven.

01:03:45.670 --> 01:03:49.450
While Peter was wondering about the
meaning of the vision, the men sent by

01:03:49.450 --> 01:03:53.010
Cornelius found out where Simon's house
was and stopped at the gate.

01:03:53.570 --> 01:03:57.010
They called out asking if Simon,
who was known as Peter, was staying there.

01:03:59.610 --> 01:04:03.310
While Peter was still thinking about the
vision, the spirit said to him,

01:04:04.030 --> 01:04:09.270
Simon, three men are looking for you,
so get up and go downstairs.

01:04:10.350 --> 01:04:13.830
Do not hesitate to go with them,
for I have sent them.

01:04:20.550 --> 01:04:24.270
Peter went down and said to the men,
I'm the one you're looking for.

01:04:25.510 --> 01:04:26.410
Why have you come?

01:04:26.890 --> 01:04:30.730
The men replied, we have come from
Cornelius, the centurion.

01:04:31.230 --> 01:04:34.510
He's a righteous and God-fearing man who
is respected by all the Jewish people.

01:04:35.430 --> 01:04:38.830
A holy angel told him to have you come to
his house so that he could hear what you

01:04:38.830 --> 01:04:39.370
have to say.

01:04:39.710 --> 01:04:42.550
Then Peter invited the men into the house
to be his guests.

01:04:43.510 --> 01:04:47.190
The next day Peter started out with them
and some of the brothers from Joppa went

01:04:47.190 --> 01:04:47.610
along.

01:04:48.830 --> 01:04:51.530
The following day he arrived in Caesarea.

01:04:53.090 --> 01:04:56.530
Cornelius was expecting them and had
called together his relatives and close

01:04:56.530 --> 01:04:57.050
friends.

01:04:58.270 --> 01:05:02.190
As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met
him and fell at his feet in reverence.

01:05:02.910 --> 01:05:04.270
But Peter made him get up.

01:05:05.150 --> 01:05:06.770
Stand up, he said.

01:05:07.090 --> 01:05:08.590
I am only a man myself.

01:05:10.070 --> 01:05:13.950
Talking with him, Peter went inside and
found a large gathering of people.

01:05:14.470 --> 01:05:19.130
He said to them, you are well aware that
it is against our law for a Jew to

01:05:19.130 --> 01:05:24.450
associate with a Gentile or visit him,
but God has shown me that I should not

01:05:24.450 --> 01:05:27.030
call any man impure or unclean.

01:05:28.010 --> 01:05:31.830
So when I was sent for, I came without
raising any objection.

01:05:33.610 --> 01:05:35.330
May I ask why you sent for me?

01:05:35.870 --> 01:05:43.470
Cornelius answered, Four days ago,
I was in my house praying at this hour at

01:05:43.470 --> 01:05:44.470
three in the afternoon.

01:05:45.670 --> 01:05:53.210
Suddenly, a man in shining clothes stood
before me and said, Cornelius,

01:05:53.890 --> 01:05:57.970
God has heard your prayer and remembered
your gifts to the poor.

01:05:59.050 --> 01:06:02.290
Send to Joppa for Simon who is called
Peter.

01:06:03.010 --> 01:06:07.390
He is a guest in the home of Simon the
Tanner who lives by the sea.

01:06:08.650 --> 01:06:12.350
So I sent for you immediately and it was
good of you to come.

01:06:13.510 --> 01:06:20.990
Now we are all here in the presence of God
to listen to everything the Lord has

01:06:20.990 --> 01:06:22.250
commanded you to tell us.

01:06:22.690 --> 01:06:24.210
Then Peter began to speak.

01:06:24.850 --> 01:06:30.430
I now realize how true it is that God does
not show favoritism but accepts men from

01:06:31.210 --> 01:06:34.090
every nation who fear him and do what is
right.

01:06:35.710 --> 01:06:39.970
You know the message God sent to the
people of Israel, telling the good news of

01:06:39.970 --> 01:06:42.390
peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of
all.

01:06:50.370 --> 01:06:54.710
You know what has happened throughout
Judea, beginning in Galilee after the

01:06:54.710 --> 01:07:01.010
baptism, that John preached how God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy

01:07:01.010 --> 01:07:06.510
Spirit and power, and how he went around
doing good and healing all who were under

01:07:06.510 --> 01:07:09.810
the power of the devil, because God was
with him.

01:07:10.650 --> 01:07:15.330
We are witnesses of everything he did in
the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.

01:07:16.150 --> 01:07:20.810
They killed him by hanging him on a tree
but God raised him from the dead on the

01:07:20.810 --> 01:07:23.150
third day and caused him to be seen.

01:07:24.570 --> 01:07:29.570
He was not seen by all the people but by
witnesses whom God had already chosen,

01:07:29.910 --> 01:07:35.050
by us who ate and drank with him after he
rose from the dead.

01:07:35.870 --> 01:07:41.270
He commanded us to preach to the people
and to testify that he is the one whom God

01:07:41.270 --> 01:07:44.310
appointed as judge of the living and the
dead.

01:07:45.290 --> 01:07:50.170
All the prophets testify about him that
everyone who believes in him receives

01:07:50.170 --> 01:07:52.130
forgiveness of sins through his name.

01:07:52.750 --> 01:07:56.510
While Peter was still speaking these
words, the Holy Spirit came on all who

01:07:56.510 --> 01:07:57.330
heard the message.

01:07:58.250 --> 01:08:02.010
The circumcised believers who had come
with Peter were astonished that the gift

01:08:02.010 --> 01:08:06.110
of the Holy Spirit had been poured out
even on the Gentiles, for they heard them

01:08:06.110 --> 01:08:08.330
speaking in tongues and praising God.

01:08:10.690 --> 01:08:15.850
Then Peter said, Can anyone keep these
people from being baptized with water?

01:08:16.430 --> 01:08:19.290
They have received the Holy Spirit just as
we have.

01:08:22.230 --> 01:08:25.930
So he ordered that they be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ.

01:08:26.750 --> 01:08:29.550
Then they asked Peter to stay with them
for a few days.

01:08:42.240 --> 01:08:46.820
The apostles and the brothers throughout
Judea heard that the Gentiles also had

01:08:46.820 --> 01:08:48.040
received the word of God.

01:08:48.580 --> 01:08:52.720
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem,
the circumcised believers criticized him

01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:57.060
and said, He went into the house of
uncircumcised men and ate with them.

01:08:57.500 --> 01:09:01.320
Peter began and explained everything to
them precisely as it had happened.

01:09:01.820 --> 01:09:09.020
I was in the city of Joppa praying,
and in a trance I saw a vision.

01:09:13.320 --> 01:09:19.340
I saw something like a large sheet being
let down from heaven by its four corners,

01:09:20.060 --> 01:09:22.360
and it came down to where I was.

01:09:23.340 --> 01:09:30.220
I looked into it, and I saw four-footed
animals of the earth, wild beasts,

01:09:31.260 --> 01:09:33.480
reptiles, and birds of the air.

01:09:34.920 --> 01:09:41.700
Then I heard a voice telling me,
Get up, Peter, kill and eat.

01:09:42.420 --> 01:09:44.780
I replied, Surely not, Lord.

01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:48.860
Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered
my mouth.

01:09:49.980 --> 01:09:57.920
The voice spoke from heaven a second time,
Do not call anything impure that God has

01:09:57.920 --> 01:09:58.540
made clean.

01:10:01.160 --> 01:10:04.980
This happened three times, and then it was
all pulled up to heaven again.

01:10:06.040 --> 01:10:11.540
Right then, three men, who had been sent
to me from Caesarea, stopped at the house

01:10:11.540 --> 01:10:12.340
where I was staying.

01:10:14.400 --> 01:10:18.920
The Spirit told me to have no hesitation
about going with them.

01:10:20.080 --> 01:10:25.240
These six brothers also went with me,
and we entered the man's house.

01:10:26.900 --> 01:10:35.460
He told us how he had seen an angel appear
in his house and say, Send to Joppa for

01:10:35.460 --> 01:10:36.720
Simon, who is called Peter.

01:10:37.880 --> 01:10:43.500
He will bring you a message through which
you and all your household will be saved.

01:10:45.020 --> 01:10:50.640
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came
on them as he had come on us at the

01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:50.940
beginning.

01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:59.580
Then I remembered what the Lord had said,
John baptized with water, but you will be

01:10:59.580 --> 01:11:01.080
baptized with the Holy Spirit.

01:11:03.480 --> 01:11:10.360
So, if God gave them the same gift as he
gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus

01:11:10.360 --> 01:11:15.540
Christ, who was I to think that I could
oppose God?

01:11:16.900 --> 01:11:23.420
When they heard this, they had no further
objections and praised God, saying,

01:11:24.060 --> 01:11:30.620
So then, God has granted even the Gentiles
repentance unto life.

01:11:31.620 --> 01:11:35.520
Now, those who had been scattered by the
persecution in connection with Stephen

01:11:35.520 --> 01:11:42.720
traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus,
and Antioch, telling the message only to

01:11:42.720 --> 01:11:43.200
Jews.

01:11:44.420 --> 01:11:50.880
Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and
Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak

01:11:50.880 --> 01:11:55.260
to Greeks also, telling them the good news
about the Lord Jesus.

01:11:56.080 --> 01:12:01.860
The Lord's hand was with them,
and a great number of people believed and

01:12:01.860 --> 01:12:02.680
turned to the Lord.

01:12:09.870 --> 01:12:18.510
News of this reached the ears of the
church at Jerusalem, and they sent

01:12:18.510 --> 01:12:19.950
Barnabas to Antioch.

01:12:21.770 --> 01:12:28.230
When he arrived and saw the evidence of
the grace of God, he was glad and

01:12:28.230 --> 01:12:31.330
encouraged them all to remain true to the
Lord with all their hearts.

01:12:31.330 --> 01:12:38.750
Barnabas, he was a good man, full of the
Holy Spirit and faith,

01:12:48.550 --> 01:12:52.950
and a great number of people were brought
to the Lord.

01:12:55.750 --> 01:13:02.110
Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for
Saul, and when he found him, he brought

01:13:02.110 --> 01:13:03.090
him to Antioch.

01:13:04.050 --> 01:13:10.090
So for a whole year, Barnabas and Saul met
with the church, taught great numbers of

01:13:10.090 --> 01:13:10.410
people.

01:13:12.250 --> 01:13:15.250
The disciples were called Christians first
at Antioch.

01:13:17.350 --> 01:13:24.070
During this time, some prophets came down
from Jerusalem to Antioch.

01:13:24.690 --> 01:13:32.590
One of them, named Agabus, stood up and
through the Spirit predicted that a severe

01:13:32.590 --> 01:13:35.290
famine would spread over the entire Roman
world.

01:13:36.050 --> 01:13:37.710
This happened during the reign of
Claudius.

01:13:38.750 --> 01:13:43.950
The disciples, each according to his
ability, decided to provide help for the

01:13:43.950 --> 01:13:45.130
brothers living in Judea.

01:13:46.050 --> 01:13:49.570
This they did, sending their gift to the
elders by Barnabas and Saul.

01:13:56.340 --> 01:14:00.680
It was about this time that King Herod
arrested some who belonged to the church,

01:14:01.140 --> 01:14:02.540
intending to persecute them.

01:14:06.160 --> 01:14:11.320
He had James, the brother of John,
put to death with the sword.

01:14:39.560 --> 01:14:43.640
When he saw that this pleased the Jews,
he proceeded to seize Peter also.

01:14:44.280 --> 01:14:46.800
This happened during the Feast of
Unleavened Bread.

01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:59.160
After arresting him, he put him in prison,
handing him over to be guarded by four

01:14:59.160 --> 01:15:01.260
squads of four soldiers each.

01:15:02.280 --> 01:15:05.600
Herod intended to bring him out for public
trial after the Passover.

01:15:07.240 --> 01:15:12.160
So Peter was kept in prison, but the
church was earnestly praying to God for

01:15:12.160 --> 01:15:12.360
him.

01:15:16.130 --> 01:15:20.510
The night before Herod was to bring him to
trial, Peter was sleeping between two

01:15:20.510 --> 01:15:25.250
soldiers, bound with two chains,
and sentries stood guard at the entrance.

01:15:26.670 --> 01:15:30.330
Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared
and a light shone in the cell.

01:15:31.370 --> 01:15:33.810
He struck Peter on the side and woke him
up.

01:15:34.050 --> 01:15:38.910
Quick, get up, he said, and the chains
fell off Peter's wrists.

01:15:41.510 --> 01:15:45.450
Then the angel said to him, Put on your
clothes and sandals.

01:15:46.630 --> 01:15:47.570
And Peter did so.

01:16:07.060 --> 01:16:10.000
Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.

01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:11.820
The angel told him.

01:16:17.280 --> 01:16:21.640
Peter followed him out of the prison,
but he had no idea that what the angel was

01:16:21.640 --> 01:16:22.760
doing was really happening.

01:16:23.080 --> 01:16:24.460
He thought he was seeing a vision.

01:16:25.260 --> 01:16:30.260
They passed the first and second guard,
and came to the iron gate leading to the

01:16:30.260 --> 01:16:30.500
city.

01:16:33.580 --> 01:16:37.100
It opened for them by itself, and they
went through it.

01:16:43.260 --> 01:16:47.540
When they had walked the length of one
street, suddenly the angel left him.

01:16:51.510 --> 01:16:58.530
Then Peter came to himself and said,
Now I know without a doubt that the Lord

01:16:58.530 --> 01:17:02.690
sent His angel and rescued me from Herod's
clutches and from everything the Jewish

01:17:02.690 --> 01:17:03.890
people were anticipating.

01:17:11.990 --> 01:17:15.850
When this had dawned on him, he went to
the house of Mary, the mother of John,

01:17:16.330 --> 01:17:20.190
also called Mark, where many people had
gathered and were praying.

01:17:23.430 --> 01:17:28.070
Peter knocked at the outer entrance,
and a servant girl named Rhoda came to

01:17:28.070 --> 01:17:28.850
answer the door.

01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:40.140
When she recognized Peter's voice,
she was so overjoyed, she ran back without

01:17:40.140 --> 01:17:43.360
opening it and exclaimed, Peter is at the
door.

01:17:45.400 --> 01:17:47.560
You're out of your mind, they told her.

01:17:48.340 --> 01:17:52.120
When she kept insisting that it was so,
they said, It must be his angel.

01:17:53.220 --> 01:17:54.840
But Peter kept on knocking.

01:18:02.730 --> 01:18:05.610
And when they opened the door and saw him,
they were astonished.

01:18:06.430 --> 01:18:10.090
Peter motioned with his hand for them to
be quiet and described how the Lord had

01:18:10.090 --> 01:18:11.030
brought him out of prison.

01:18:20.390 --> 01:18:24.030
Tell James and the brothers about this,
she said, and then he left for another

01:18:24.030 --> 01:18:24.490
place.

01:18:32.630 --> 01:18:36.030
In the morning there was no small
commotion among the soldiers as to what

01:18:36.030 --> 01:18:36.850
had become of Peter.

01:18:37.850 --> 01:18:41.890
After Herod had a thorough search made for
him and did not find him, he

01:18:41.890 --> 01:18:44.850
cross-examined the guards and ordered that
they be executed.

01:18:49.210 --> 01:18:52.910
Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and
stayed there a while.

01:18:53.590 --> 01:18:55.850
He had been quarreling with the people of
Tyre and Sidon.

01:18:56.430 --> 01:18:58.930
They now joined together and sought an
audience with him.

01:18:59.670 --> 01:19:03.390
Having secured the support of Blastas,
a trusted personal servant of the king,

01:19:03.730 --> 01:19:07.650
they asked for peace because they depended
on the king's country for their food

01:19:07.650 --> 01:19:08.150
supply.

01:19:12.870 --> 01:19:17.690
On the appointed day, Herod, wearing his
royal robe, sat on his throne and

01:19:17.690 --> 01:19:19.690
delivered a public address to the people.

01:19:20.370 --> 01:19:24.850
They shouted, This is the voice of a god,
not of a man.

01:19:28.150 --> 01:19:32.950
Immediately, because Herod did not give
praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck

01:19:32.950 --> 01:19:36.070
him down and he was eaten by worms and
died.

01:19:41.770 --> 01:19:45.010
But the word of God continued to increase
and spread.

01:19:47.530 --> 01:19:51.310
When Barnabas and Saul had finished their
mission, they returned from Jerusalem,

01:19:51.610 --> 01:19:54.030
taking with them John, also called Mark.

01:19:57.470 --> 01:20:01.450
In the church at Antioch, there were
prophets and teachers, Barnabas,

01:20:01.770 --> 01:20:06.970
Simeon, called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene,
Menaion, who had been brought up with

01:20:06.970 --> 01:20:08.810
Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

01:20:10.450 --> 01:20:14.110
While they were worshipping the Lord and
fasting, the Holy Spirit said,

01:20:14.490 --> 01:20:18.510
Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul,
for the work to which I have called them.

01:20:21.590 --> 01:20:25.250
So after they had fasted and prayed,
they placed their hands on them and sent

01:20:25.250 --> 01:20:25.710
them off.

01:20:26.330 --> 01:20:31.110
The two of them, sent on their way by the
Holy Spirit, went down to Cilicia and

01:20:31.110 --> 01:20:32.470
sailed from there to Cyprus.

01:20:33.170 --> 01:20:36.790
When they arrived at Solomon's,
they proclaimed the word of God in the

01:20:36.790 --> 01:20:37.830
Jewish synagogues.

01:20:38.130 --> 01:20:39.630
John was with them as their helper.

01:20:40.390 --> 01:20:43.350
They traveled through the whole island
until they came to Paphos.

01:20:43.870 --> 01:20:48.270
There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false
prophet named Barjesus, who was an

01:20:48.270 --> 01:20:50.810
attendant of the proconsul Sergius Paulus.

01:20:53.510 --> 01:20:57.130
The proconsul, an intelligent man,
sent for Barnabas and Saul because he

01:20:57.130 --> 01:20:58.490
wanted to hear the word of God.

01:20:58.990 --> 01:21:03.750
But Elimas, the sorcerer, for that is what
his name means, opposed them and tried to

01:21:03.750 --> 01:21:05.310
turn the proconsul from the faith.

01:21:05.910 --> 01:21:10.030
Then Saul, who was also called Paul,
filled with the Holy Spirit, looked

01:21:10.030 --> 01:21:16.410
straight at Elimas and said, You are a
child of the devil and an enemy of

01:21:16.410 --> 01:21:17.650
everything that is right.

01:21:18.770 --> 01:21:22.150
You are full of all kinds of deceit and
trickery.

01:21:22.910 --> 01:21:26.170
Will you never stop perverting the right
ways of the Lord?

01:21:27.270 --> 01:21:30.610
Now the hand of the Lord is against you.

01:21:31.250 --> 01:21:35.490
You are going to be blind, and for a time
you will be unable to see the light of the

01:21:35.490 --> 01:21:35.770
sun.

01:21:36.090 --> 01:21:40.190
Immediately mist came over him,
and he groped about, seeking someone to

01:21:40.190 --> 01:21:40.990
lead him by the hand.

01:21:41.730 --> 01:21:45.910
When the proconsul saw what happened,
he believed, but he was amazed at the

01:21:45.910 --> 01:21:46.870
teaching about the Lord.

01:21:53.950 --> 01:21:58.250
From Paphos, Paul and his companions
sailed to Perga and Pamphylia,

01:21:58.530 --> 01:22:00.590
where John left them to return to
Jerusalem.

01:22:14.270 --> 01:22:16.870
From Perga, they went on to Pisidian
Antioch.

01:22:20.340 --> 01:22:23.240
On the Sabbath, they entered the synagogue
and sat down.

01:22:24.040 --> 01:22:28.020
After the reading from the law and the
prophets, the synagogue rulers sent word

01:22:28.020 --> 01:22:33.140
to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a
message of encouragement for the people,

01:22:33.740 --> 01:22:34.420
please speak.

01:22:37.500 --> 01:22:44.520
Standing up, Paul motioned with his hand
and said, Men of Israel, and you Gentiles

01:22:44.520 --> 01:22:47.240
who worship God, listen to me.

01:22:49.860 --> 01:22:53.780
The God of the people of Israel chose our
fathers.

01:22:54.940 --> 01:22:58.560
He made the people prosper during their
stay in Egypt.

01:22:59.600 --> 01:23:03.440
With mighty power, he led them out of that
country.

01:23:04.380 --> 01:23:07.300
He endured their conduct for about 40
years in the desert.

01:23:08.320 --> 01:23:15.520
He overthrew seven nations in Canaan and
gave their land to his people as their

01:23:15.520 --> 01:23:16.000
inheritance.

01:23:16.380 --> 01:23:18.780
All this took about 450 years.

01:23:20.460 --> 01:23:26.840
After this, God gave them judges until the
time of Samuel the prophet.

01:23:28.000 --> 01:23:33.460
Then the people asked for a king,
and he gave them Saul, son of Kish of the

01:23:33.460 --> 01:23:35.620
tribe of Benjamin, who ruled 40 years.

01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:41.180
After removing Saul, he made David their
king.

01:23:42.240 --> 01:23:49.180
He testified concerning him, I have found
David, son of Jesse, a man after my own

01:23:49.180 --> 01:23:49.640
heart.

01:23:50.140 --> 01:23:52.300
He will do everything I want him to do.

01:23:53.820 --> 01:24:01.540
From this man's descendants, God has
brought to Israel the Savior Jesus,

01:24:02.220 --> 01:24:03.680
as he promised.

01:24:06.360 --> 01:24:12.280
Before the coming of Jesus, John preached
repentance and baptism to all the people

01:24:12.280 --> 01:24:12.760
of Israel.

01:24:13.680 --> 01:24:18.460
As John was completing his work,
he said, who do you think I am?

01:24:18.860 --> 01:24:24.800
I'm not that one, no, but he is coming
after me, whose sandals I'm not worthy to

01:24:24.800 --> 01:24:25.400
untie.

01:24:27.220 --> 01:24:34.880
Brothers, children of Abraham,
and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us

01:24:34.880 --> 01:24:37.640
that this message of salvation has been
sent.

01:24:39.000 --> 01:24:45.120
The people of Jerusalem and their rulers
did not recognize Jesus.

01:24:46.380 --> 01:24:52.040
Yet in condemning him, they fulfilled the
words of the prophets that are read every

01:24:52.040 --> 01:24:52.540
Sabbath.

01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:58.220
Though they found no proper ground for a
death sentence, they asked Pilate to have

01:24:58.220 --> 01:24:58.820
him executed.

01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:05.960
When they had carried out all that was
written about him, they took him down from

01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:08.600
the tree and laid him in a tomb.

01:25:10.040 --> 01:25:17.160
But God raised him from the dead,
and for many days he was seen by those who

01:25:17.160 --> 01:25:20.280
had traveled with him from Galilee to
Jerusalem.

01:25:20.940 --> 01:25:23.720
They are now his witnesses to our people.

01:25:26.020 --> 01:25:32.340
We tell you the good news, what God
promised our fathers, he has fulfilled for

01:25:32.340 --> 01:25:35.500
us, their children, by raising up Jesus.

01:25:36.500 --> 01:25:41.860
As it is written in the second Psalm,
you are my son, today I have become your

01:25:41.860 --> 01:25:42.220
father.

01:25:42.780 --> 01:25:47.620
The fact that God raised him from the
dead, never to decay, is stated in these

01:25:47.620 --> 01:25:53.860
words, I will give you the holy and sure
blessings promised to David.

01:25:54.700 --> 01:25:58.800
So it is stated elsewhere, you will not
let your holy ones see decay.

01:25:59.880 --> 01:26:06.180
For when David had served God's purpose in
his own generation, he fell asleep.

01:26:06.840 --> 01:26:10.460
He was buried with his fathers and his
body decayed.

01:26:10.880 --> 01:26:16.900
But the one whom God raised from the dead
did not see decay.

01:26:19.080 --> 01:26:25.000
Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know
that through Jesus, the forgiveness of

01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:26.660
sins is proclaimed to you.

01:26:35.540 --> 01:26:44.980
Through him, everyone who believes is
justified from everything you could not be

01:26:44.980 --> 01:26:47.440
justified from by the law of Moses.

01:26:51.390 --> 01:26:57.510
Take care that what the prophets have said
does not happen to you.

01:26:59.570 --> 01:27:04.930
Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish,
for I am going to do something in your

01:27:04.930 --> 01:27:09.950
days that you would never believe,
even if someone told you.

01:27:11.070 --> 01:27:14.610
As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the
synagogue, the people invited them to

01:27:14.610 --> 01:27:16.930
speak further about these things on the
next Sabbath.

01:27:17.870 --> 01:27:22.170
When the congregation was dismissed,
many of the Jews and devout converts to

01:27:22.170 --> 01:27:26.330
Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas,
who talked with them and urged them to

01:27:26.330 --> 01:27:27.910
continue in the grace of God.

01:27:32.810 --> 01:27:36.950
On the next Sabbath, almost the whole city
gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

01:27:38.110 --> 01:27:42.310
When the Jews saw the crowds, they were
filled with jealousy and talked abusively

01:27:42.310 --> 01:27:43.870
against what Paul was saying.

01:27:44.650 --> 01:27:46.790
Then Paul and Barnabas answered them
boldly.

01:27:47.290 --> 01:27:49.650
We had to speak the word of God to you
first.

01:27:50.590 --> 01:27:54.150
Since you rejected and do not consider
yourselves worthy of eternal life,

01:27:54.350 --> 01:27:56.330
we now turn to the Gentiles.

01:27:57.650 --> 01:28:00.090
For this is what the Lord has commanded
us.

01:28:00.950 --> 01:28:07.110
I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends

01:28:07.110 --> 01:28:07.730
of the earth.

01:28:09.070 --> 01:28:12.890
When the Gentiles heard this, they were
glad and honored the word of the Lord.

01:28:13.070 --> 01:28:16.090
And all who were appointed for eternal
life believed.

01:28:17.270 --> 01:28:19.690
The word of the Lord spread through the
whole region.

01:28:20.690 --> 01:28:24.570
But the Jews incited the God-fearing women
of high standing and the leading men of

01:28:24.570 --> 01:28:24.950
the city.

01:28:25.390 --> 01:28:29.170
They stirred up persecution against Paul
and Barnabas and expelled them from their

01:28:29.170 --> 01:28:29.510
region.

01:28:31.770 --> 01:28:36.030
So they shook the dust from their feet in
protest against them and went to Iconium.

01:28:36.430 --> 01:28:39.590
And the disciples were filled with joy and
with the Holy Spirit.

01:28:43.860 --> 01:28:47.740
At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went,
as usual, into the Jewish synagogue.

01:28:49.420 --> 01:28:53.600
There they spoke so effectively that a
great number of Jews and Gentiles

01:28:53.600 --> 01:28:54.000
believed.

01:28:54.640 --> 01:28:58.680
But the Jews who refused to believe
stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their

01:28:58.680 --> 01:28:59.780
minds against the brothers.

01:29:03.630 --> 01:29:08.190
So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable
time there, speaking boldly for the Lord,

01:29:08.190 --> 01:29:13.230
who confirmed the message of His grace by
enabling them to do miraculous signs and

01:29:13.230 --> 01:29:13.650
wonders.

01:29:14.390 --> 01:29:16.150
The people of the city were divided.

01:29:16.810 --> 01:29:19.350
Some sided with the Jews, others with the
apostles.

01:29:20.310 --> 01:29:24.290
There was a plot afoot among the Gentiles
and Jews, together with their leaders,

01:29:24.610 --> 01:29:26.370
to mistreat them and stone them.

01:29:27.730 --> 01:29:32.170
But they found out about it and fled to
the Iconian cities of Lystra and Derv and

01:29:32.170 --> 01:29:35.910
to the surrounding country, where they
continued to preach the good news.

01:29:38.030 --> 01:29:43.170
In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his
feet, who was lame from birth and had

01:29:43.170 --> 01:29:44.090
never walked.

01:29:45.090 --> 01:29:47.070
He listened to Paul as he was speaking.

01:30:06.740 --> 01:30:11.200
Paul looked directly at him, saw that he
had faith to be healed, and called out,

01:30:11.820 --> 01:30:13.340
Stand up on your feet.

01:30:59.910 --> 01:31:02.390
At that the man jumped up and began to
walk.

01:31:11.560 --> 01:31:15.600
When the crowd saw what Paul had done,
they shouted in the Iconian language,

01:31:15.860 --> 01:31:18.440
The gods have come down to us in human
form.

01:31:21.440 --> 01:31:25.580
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they
called Hermes, because he was the chief

01:31:25.580 --> 01:31:26.040
speaker.

01:31:27.020 --> 01:31:31.480
The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just
outside the city, brought bulls and

01:31:31.480 --> 01:31:36.080
wreaths to the city gates, because he and
the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to

01:31:36.080 --> 01:31:36.380
them.

01:31:48.180 --> 01:31:52.360
But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul
heard of this, they tore their clothes and

01:31:52.360 --> 01:31:54.880
rushed out into the crowd shouting,
Men!

01:32:10.950 --> 01:32:12.650
We too are only men,

01:32:17.190 --> 01:32:19.830
human like you.

01:32:22.030 --> 01:32:26.870
We are bringing you good news,
telling you to turn from these worthless

01:32:26.870 --> 01:32:31.650
things to the living God.

01:32:34.010 --> 01:32:51.250
Who made heaven and earth and sea and
everything in them.

01:32:58.590 --> 01:33:06.010
In the past he let all nations go their
own way, yet he has not left himself

01:33:06.010 --> 01:33:06.770
without testimony.

01:33:07.330 --> 01:33:15.690
He has shown kindness by giving you rain
from heaven and crops in their seasons.

01:33:16.570 --> 01:33:23.270
He provides you with plenty of food and
fills your hearts with joy.

01:33:25.750 --> 01:33:30.450
Even with these words they had difficulty
keeping the crowd from sacrificing to

01:33:30.450 --> 01:33:30.650
them.

01:33:37.270 --> 01:33:41.270
Then some Jews came from Antioch and
Iconium and won the crowd over.

01:34:02.880 --> 01:34:06.840
They stole Paul and dragged him outside
the city thinking he was dead.

01:34:40.950 --> 01:34:45.850
But after the disciples gathered around
him, he got up and went back into the

01:34:45.850 --> 01:34:46.090
city.

01:34:55.570 --> 01:34:58.650
The next day he and Barnabas left for
Derb.

01:34:59.050 --> 01:35:03.750
They preached the good news in the city
and won a large number of disciples.

01:35:05.490 --> 01:35:12.590
Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and
Antioch, strengthening the disciples and

01:35:12.590 --> 01:35:15.170
encouraging them to remain true to the
faith.

01:35:16.010 --> 01:35:19.790
We must go through many hardships to enter
the kingdom of God, they said.

01:35:32.870 --> 01:35:37.910
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for
them in each church and with prayer and

01:35:37.910 --> 01:35:41.570
fasting committed them to the Lord in whom
they had put their trust.

01:35:43.150 --> 01:35:47.890
After going through Pisidia they came into
Pamphylia and when they had preached the

01:35:47.890 --> 01:35:49.790
word in Perga they went down to Italia.

01:35:49.910 --> 01:35:53.990
From Italia they sailed back to Antioch
where they had been committed to the grace

01:35:53.990 --> 01:35:55.810
of God for the work they had now
completed.

01:35:56.670 --> 01:36:00.730
On arriving there they gathered the church
together and reported all that God had

01:36:00.730 --> 01:36:05.350
done through them and how he had opened
the door of faith to the Gentiles.

01:36:06.350 --> 01:36:08.810
They stayed there a long time with the
disciples.

01:36:11.870 --> 01:36:16.510
Some men came down from Judea to Antioch
and were teaching the brothers unless you

01:36:16.510 --> 01:36:20.550
are circumcised according to the custom
taught by Moses you cannot be saved.

01:36:20.550 --> 01:36:24.510
Now this brought Paul and Barnabas into
sharp dispute and debate with them.

01:36:26.550 --> 01:36:30.970
So Paul and Barnabas were appointed along
with some other believers to go up to

01:36:30.970 --> 01:36:33.910
Jerusalem and see the apostles and elders
about this question.

01:36:34.570 --> 01:36:39.750
The church sent them on their way and as
they traveled through Phoenicia and

01:36:39.750 --> 01:36:44.990
Samaria they told how the Gentiles had
been converted.

01:36:47.030 --> 01:36:49.990
This news made all the brothers very glad.

01:36:52.510 --> 01:36:56.590
When they came to Jerusalem they were
welcomed by the church and the apostles

01:36:56.590 --> 01:37:00.410
and elders to whom they reported
everything God had done through them.

01:37:08.570 --> 01:37:12.910
Then some of the believers who belonged to
the party of the Pharisees stood up and

01:37:12.910 --> 01:37:17.950
said the Gentiles must be circumcised and
required to obey the law of Moses.

01:37:17.950 --> 01:37:21.170
The apostles and elders met to consider
this question.

01:37:23.570 --> 01:37:26.810
After much discussion Peter got up and
addressed them.

01:37:29.130 --> 01:37:33.730
Brothers, you know that some time ago God
made a choice among you that the Gentiles

01:37:33.730 --> 01:37:38.470
might hear from my lips the message of the
gospel and believe.

01:37:40.230 --> 01:37:44.870
God who knows the heart showed that he
accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to

01:37:44.870 --> 01:37:46.550
them just as he did to us.

01:37:47.950 --> 01:37:53.290
He made no distinction between us and them
for he purified their hearts by faith.

01:37:54.530 --> 01:38:01.910
Now then why do you try to test God by
putting on the necks of the disciples a

01:38:01.910 --> 01:38:04.650
yoke that neither we nor our fathers have
been able to bear?

01:38:07.210 --> 01:38:14.050
No, we believe it is through the grace of
our Lord Jesus that we are saved just as

01:38:14.050 --> 01:38:14.510
they are.

01:38:15.710 --> 01:38:20.730
The whole assembly became silent as they
listened to Barnabas and Paul telling

01:38:20.730 --> 01:38:24.890
about the miraculous signs and wonders God
had done among the Gentiles through them.

01:38:28.510 --> 01:38:31.050
When they finished James spoke up.

01:38:31.930 --> 01:38:34.390
Brothers, listen to me.

01:38:35.870 --> 01:38:42.750
Simon has described to us how God at first
showed his concern by taking from the

01:38:42.750 --> 01:38:44.710
Gentiles a people for himself.

01:38:46.670 --> 01:38:51.510
The words of the prophets are in agreement
with this as it is written.

01:38:52.510 --> 01:38:57.130
After this I will return and rebuild
David's fallen tent.

01:38:57.770 --> 01:39:04.150
Its ruins I will rebuild and I will
restore it that the remnant of men may

01:39:04.150 --> 01:39:09.950
seek the Lord and all the Gentiles who
bear my name says the Lord who does these

01:39:09.950 --> 01:39:12.430
things that have been known for ages.

01:39:14.050 --> 01:39:20.570
It is my judgment therefore that we should
not make it difficult for the Gentiles who

01:39:20.570 --> 01:39:21.510
are turning to God.

01:39:22.650 --> 01:39:29.930
Instead we should write to them telling
them to abstain from food polluted by

01:39:29.930 --> 01:39:36.230
idols, from sexual immorality,
from the meat of strangled animals and

01:39:36.230 --> 01:39:36.810
from blood.

01:39:38.410 --> 01:39:44.010
For Moses has been preached in every city
from the earliest times and is read in the

01:39:44.010 --> 01:39:45.670
synagogues on every Sabbath.

01:39:46.850 --> 01:39:50.910
Then the apostles and elders with the
whole church decided to choose some of

01:39:50.910 --> 01:39:54.350
their own men and send them to Antioch
with Paul and Barnabas.

01:39:54.750 --> 01:39:59.930
They chose Judas called Barabbas and
Silas, two men who were leaders among the

01:39:59.930 --> 01:40:00.250
brothers.

01:40:01.990 --> 01:40:04.170
With them they sent the following letters.

01:40:05.410 --> 01:40:10.090
The apostles and elders your brothers to
the Gentile believers in Antioch,

01:40:10.190 --> 01:40:11.410
Syria and Cilicia.

01:40:12.510 --> 01:40:13.070
Greetings.

01:40:14.170 --> 01:40:19.270
We have heard that some went out from us
without our authorization and disturbed

01:40:19.270 --> 01:40:22.310
you troubling your minds by what they
said.

01:40:23.630 --> 01:40:28.190
So we all agreed to choose some men and
send them to you with our dear friends

01:40:28.190 --> 01:40:29.250
Barnabas and Paul.

01:40:30.810 --> 01:40:34.490
Men who have risked their lives for the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

01:40:35.310 --> 01:40:39.810
Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas
to confirm by word of mouth what we are

01:40:39.810 --> 01:40:40.110
writing.

01:40:42.090 --> 01:40:46.730
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to
us not to burden you with anything beyond

01:40:46.730 --> 01:40:48.070
the following requirements.

01:40:49.750 --> 01:40:57.590
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to
idols, from blood, from the meat of

01:40:57.590 --> 01:41:01.570
strangled animals, and from sexual
immorality.

01:41:02.750 --> 01:41:05.350
You will do well to avoid these things.

01:41:06.710 --> 01:41:07.310
Farewell.

01:41:08.450 --> 01:41:12.310
The men were sent off and went down to
Antioch where they gathered the church

01:41:12.310 --> 01:41:13.710
together and delivered the letter.

01:41:14.530 --> 01:41:17.590
The people read it and were glad for its
encouraging message.

01:41:18.310 --> 01:41:22.650
Judas and Silas, who themselves were
prophets, said much to encourage and

01:41:22.650 --> 01:41:23.490
strengthen the brothers.

01:41:26.110 --> 01:41:29.770
After spending some time there,
they were sent off by the brothers with

01:41:29.770 --> 01:41:32.630
the blessing of peace to return to those
who had sent them.

01:41:32.850 --> 01:41:37.050
But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch,
where they and many others taught and

01:41:37.050 --> 01:41:38.170
preached the word of the Lord.

01:41:39.170 --> 01:41:44.490
Sometime later, Paul said to Barnabas,
let us go back and visit the brothers in

01:41:44.490 --> 01:41:49.670
all the towns where we preached the word
of the Lord and see how they're doing.

01:41:51.250 --> 01:41:54.510
Barnabas wanted to take John, also called
Mark, with them.

01:41:54.770 --> 01:41:59.530
But Paul did not think it wise to take him
because he had deserted them in Pamphylia

01:41:59.530 --> 01:42:01.450
and had not continued with them in the
work.

01:42:04.870 --> 01:42:08.130
They had such a sharp disagreement that
they parted company.

01:42:08.830 --> 01:42:10.930
Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Silas.

01:42:12.590 --> 01:42:17.090
But Paul chose Silas and left,
commended by the brothers to the grace of

01:42:17.090 --> 01:42:17.530
the Lord.

01:42:18.130 --> 01:42:21.670
He went through Syria and Cilicia,
strengthening the churches.

01:42:24.050 --> 01:42:28.790
He came to Derbe and then to Lystra,
where a disciple named Timothy lived,

01:42:29.390 --> 01:42:33.190
whose mother was a Jewess and a believer,
but whose father was a Greek.

01:42:36.010 --> 01:42:38.850
The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke
well of him.

01:42:39.490 --> 01:42:43.330
Paul wanted to take him along on the
journey, so he circumcised him because of

01:42:43.330 --> 01:42:46.730
the Jews who lived in that area,
for they all knew that his father was a

01:42:46.730 --> 01:42:47.050
Greek.

01:42:54.250 --> 01:42:58.470
As they traveled from town to town,
they delivered the decisions reached by

01:42:58.470 --> 01:43:01.370
the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for
the people to obey.

01:43:02.570 --> 01:43:06.230
So the churches were strengthened in the
faith and grew daily in numbers.

01:43:07.590 --> 01:43:11.090
Paul and his companions traveled
throughout the region of Perigia and

01:43:11.090 --> 01:43:14.690
Galatia, having been kept by the Holy
Spirit from preaching the word in the

01:43:14.690 --> 01:43:15.510
province of Asia.

01:43:16.630 --> 01:43:20.470
When they came to the border of Mycenae,
they tried to enter Bithynia, but the

01:43:20.470 --> 01:43:22.150
Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.

01:43:23.350 --> 01:43:26.310
So they passed by Mycenae and went down to
Troas.

01:43:50.820 --> 01:43:56.160
During the night, Paul had a vision of a
man of Macedonia standing and begging him,

01:43:56.840 --> 01:43:59.400
Come over to Macedonia and help us.

01:44:11.470 --> 01:44:14.650
After Paul had seen the vision,
we got ready at once to leave for

01:44:14.650 --> 01:44:18.690
Macedonia, concluding that God had called
us to preach the gospel to them.

01:44:22.250 --> 01:44:26.750
From Troas, we put out to sea and sailed
straight for Samothrace, and the next day

01:44:26.750 --> 01:44:27.670
on to Neapolis.

01:44:28.250 --> 01:44:32.570
From there, we traveled to Philippi,
a Roman colony in the leading city of that

01:44:32.570 --> 01:44:35.970
district of Macedonia, and we stayed there
several days.

01:44:37.010 --> 01:44:41.210
On the Sabbath, we went outside the city
gate to the river where we expected to

01:44:41.210 --> 01:44:42.270
find a place of prayer.

01:44:43.030 --> 01:44:46.890
We sat down and began to speak to the
women who had gathered there.

01:44:48.550 --> 01:44:53.370
One of those listening was a woman named
Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the

01:44:53.370 --> 01:44:56.410
city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of
God.

01:44:58.190 --> 01:45:01.250
The Lord opened her heart to respond to
Paul's message.

01:45:02.810 --> 01:45:07.470
When she and the members of her household
were baptized, she invited us to her home.

01:45:08.470 --> 01:45:13.570
If you consider me a believer in the Lord,
she said, come and stay at my house.

01:45:16.710 --> 01:45:18.370
And she persuaded us.

01:45:25.150 --> 01:45:29.590
Once when we were going to the place of
prayer, we were met by a slave girl who

01:45:29.590 --> 01:45:31.770
had a spirit by which she predicted the
future.

01:45:32.330 --> 01:45:35.410
She earned a great deal of money for her
owners by fortune-telling.

01:45:39.250 --> 01:45:44.230
This girl followed Paul and the rest of
us, shouting, These men are servants of

01:45:44.230 --> 01:45:47.590
the Most High God, who are telling you the
way to be saved.

01:45:48.450 --> 01:45:50.190
She kept this up for many days.

01:45:51.310 --> 01:45:54.890
Finally, Paul became so troubled that he
turned around and said to the spirit,

01:45:55.410 --> 01:45:59.210
In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you
to come out of her.

01:45:59.730 --> 01:46:01.690
At that moment, the spirit left her.

01:46:33.030 --> 01:46:36.990
When the owners of the slave girl realized
that their hope of making money was gone,

01:46:37.290 --> 01:46:42.910
they seized Paul and Silas and dragged
them into the marketplace to face the

01:46:42.910 --> 01:46:43.410
authorities.

01:46:48.310 --> 01:46:52.490
They brought them before the magistrates
and said, These men are Jews.

01:46:52.950 --> 01:46:56.410
They are throwing our city into an uproar
by advocating customs unlawful for us

01:46:56.410 --> 01:46:58.390
Romans to accept or practice.

01:47:01.370 --> 01:47:04.510
The crowd joined in the attack against
Paul and Silas.

01:47:06.090 --> 01:47:08.670
And the magistrates ordered them to be
stripped and beaten.

01:47:36.190 --> 01:47:40.490
After they had been severely flogged,
they were thrown into prison, and the

01:47:40.490 --> 01:47:42.770
jailer was commanded to guard them
carefully.

01:47:46.370 --> 01:47:50.850
Upon receiving such orders, he put them in
the inner cell and fastened their feet in

01:47:50.850 --> 01:47:51.450
the stocks.

01:48:10.940 --> 01:48:15.680
About midnight, Paul and Silas were
praying and singing hymns to God,

01:48:16.430 --> 01:48:18.980
and the other prisoners were listening to
them.

01:48:21.000 --> 01:48:24.940
Suddenly, there was such a violent
earthquake that the foundations of the

01:48:24.940 --> 01:48:25.860
prison were shaking.

01:48:27.100 --> 01:48:31.700
At once, all the prison doors flew open
and everybody's chains came loose.

01:48:36.700 --> 01:48:45.530
The jailer woke up, and when he saw the
prison doors open, he drew his sword and

01:48:45.530 --> 01:48:48.250
was about to kill himself because he
thought the prisoners had escaped.

01:48:54.410 --> 01:48:57.190
But Paul shouted, Do not harm yourself!

01:48:58.210 --> 01:48:59.490
We are all here!

01:49:07.720 --> 01:49:13.160
The jailer called for lights, rushed in,
and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.

01:49:21.130 --> 01:49:29.570
He then brought them out and asked,
Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

01:49:30.490 --> 01:49:39.690
They replied, Believe in the Lord Jesus,
and you'll be saved, you and your

01:49:39.690 --> 01:49:40.250
household.

01:49:43.050 --> 01:49:47.670
Then they spoke the word of the Lord to
him and to all the others in his house.

01:49:48.570 --> 01:49:52.230
At that hour of the night, the jailer took
them and washed their wounds.

01:49:53.010 --> 01:49:55.910
Then immediately, he and all his family
were baptized.

01:49:57.210 --> 01:50:00.290
The jailer brought them into his house and
set a meal before them.

01:50:00.290 --> 01:50:05.250
He was filled with joy because he had come
to believe in God, he and his whole

01:50:05.250 --> 01:50:05.710
family.

01:50:10.230 --> 01:50:14.530
When it was daylight, the magistrates sent
their officers to the jailer with the

01:50:14.530 --> 01:50:15.830
order, Release his men.

01:50:24.400 --> 01:50:28.800
The jailer told Paul, The magistrates have
ordered that you and Silas be released.

01:50:29.860 --> 01:50:30.660
Now you can leave.

01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:33.640
Go in peace.

01:50:42.200 --> 01:50:46.780
But Paul said to the officers,
They beat us publicly without a trial,

01:50:46.900 --> 01:50:50.300
even though we are Roman citizens,
and threw us into prison.

01:50:51.300 --> 01:50:55.020
And now, do they want to get rid of us
quietly?

01:50:56.440 --> 01:51:00.300
No, let them come themselves and escort us
out.

01:51:06.090 --> 01:51:10.010
The officers reported this to the
magistrates, and when they heard that Paul

01:51:10.010 --> 01:51:12.670
and Silas were Roman citizens,
they were alarmed.

01:51:14.090 --> 01:51:19.250
They came to appease them and escorted
them from the prison, requesting them to

01:51:19.250 --> 01:51:20.030
leave the city.

01:51:29.210 --> 01:51:32.830
After Paul and Silas came out of the
prison, they went to Lydia's house,

01:51:33.130 --> 01:51:35.290
where they met with the brothers and
encouraged them.

01:51:40.250 --> 01:51:41.330
Then they left.

01:51:44.670 --> 01:51:49.190
When they had passed through Amphipolis
and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica,

01:51:49.350 --> 01:51:50.490
where there was a Jewish synagogue.

01:51:51.430 --> 01:51:56.390
As his custom was, Paul went into the
synagogue, and on three Sabbath days,

01:51:56.530 --> 01:52:01.550
he reasoned with them from the scriptures,
explaining and proving that the Christ had

01:52:01.550 --> 01:52:03.410
to suffer and rise from the dead.

01:52:04.330 --> 01:52:10.310
This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the
Christ, he said.

01:52:12.230 --> 01:52:16.930
Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined
Paul and Silas, as did a large number of

01:52:16.930 --> 01:52:19.490
God-fearing Greeks and not a few prominent
women.

01:52:21.170 --> 01:52:25.390
But the Jews were jealous, so they rounded
up some bad characters from the

01:52:25.390 --> 01:52:28.650
marketplace, formed a mob, and started a
riot in the city.

01:52:30.650 --> 01:52:34.810
They rushed to Jason's house in search of
Paul and Silas, in order to bring them out

01:52:34.810 --> 01:52:35.470
to the crowd.

01:52:37.690 --> 01:52:41.130
But when they did not find them,
they dragged Jason and some other brothers

01:52:41.130 --> 01:52:46.590
before the city officials, shouting,
These men, who have caused trouble all

01:52:46.590 --> 01:52:48.710
over the world, have now come here.

01:52:50.530 --> 01:52:53.690
And Jason has welcomed them into his
house.

01:52:54.830 --> 01:52:59.810
They are all defying Caesar's decrees,
saying that there is another king,

01:53:00.310 --> 01:53:02.370
one called Jesus.

01:53:03.570 --> 01:53:07.130
When they heard this, the crowd and the
city officials were thrown into turmoil.

01:53:08.130 --> 01:53:11.010
Then they made Jason and the others post
bond and let them go.

01:53:12.290 --> 01:53:16.050
As soon as it was night, the brothers sent
Paul and Silas away to Berea.

01:53:19.390 --> 01:53:22.070
On arriving there, they went to the Jewish
synagogue.

01:53:24.670 --> 01:53:28.950
Now, the Bereans were of more noble
character than the Thessalonians,

01:53:29.850 --> 01:53:35.090
for they received the message with great
eagerness and examined the scriptures

01:53:35.090 --> 01:53:37.270
every day to see if what Paul said was
true.

01:53:39.030 --> 01:53:45.850
Many of the Jews believed, as did also a
number of prominent Greek women and many

01:53:45.850 --> 01:53:46.370
Greek men.

01:53:48.710 --> 01:53:53.850
When the Jews in Thessalonica learned that
Paul was preaching the word of God at

01:53:53.850 --> 01:54:00.550
Berea, they went there too, agitating the
crowds and stirring them up.

01:54:01.470 --> 01:54:06.130
The brothers immediately sent Paul to the
coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at

01:54:06.130 --> 01:54:06.570
Berea.

01:54:07.270 --> 01:54:11.230
The men who escorted Paul brought him to
Athens and then left with instructions for

01:54:11.230 --> 01:54:13.870
Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as
possible.

01:54:15.610 --> 01:54:20.370
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens,
he was greatly distressed to see that the

01:54:20.370 --> 01:54:21.470
city was full of idols.

01:54:22.090 --> 01:54:26.110
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the
Jews and the God-fearing Greeks,

01:54:26.330 --> 01:54:29.850
as well as in the marketplace day by day
with those who happened to be there.

01:54:31.570 --> 01:54:35.870
A group of Epicurean and Stoic
philosophers began to dispute with them.

01:54:36.290 --> 01:54:39.610
Some of them asked, What is this babbler
trying to say?

01:54:41.690 --> 01:54:46.470
Others remarked, He seems to be advocating
foreign gods.

01:54:47.750 --> 01:54:51.330
They said this because Paul was preaching
the good news about Jesus and the

01:54:51.330 --> 01:54:51.810
resurrection.

01:54:58.930 --> 01:55:03.310
Then they took him and brought him to a
meeting of the Areopagus, where they said

01:55:03.310 --> 01:55:08.790
to him, May we know what this new teaching
is that you are presenting?

01:55:09.270 --> 01:55:14.110
You are bringing some strange ideas to our
ears and we want to know what they mean.

01:55:15.650 --> 01:55:19.890
All the Athenians and the foreigners who
lived there spent their time doing nothing

01:55:19.890 --> 01:55:22.910
but talking about and listening to the
latest ideas.

01:55:24.330 --> 01:55:28.610
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the
Areopagus and said, Men of Athens,

01:55:29.190 --> 01:55:32.830
I see that in every way you are very
religious.

01:55:34.050 --> 01:55:37.610
For as I walked around and looked
carefully at your objects of worship,

01:55:38.350 --> 01:55:42.290
I even found an altar with this
inscription, to an unknown God.

01:55:43.410 --> 01:55:49.210
Now, when you worship as something
unknown, I am going to proclaim to you,

01:55:52.330 --> 01:56:00.230
The God who made the world and everything
in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and

01:56:00.230 --> 01:56:06.370
does not live in temples built by hands,
and he is not served by human hands as if

01:56:06.370 --> 01:56:15.570
he needed anything, because he himself
gives all men life and breath and

01:56:15.570 --> 01:56:16.330
everything else.

01:56:16.330 --> 01:56:27.020
From one man, he made every nation of men,
but they should inhabit the whole earth.

01:56:28.640 --> 01:56:33.300
And he determined the time set for them
and the exact places where they should

01:56:33.300 --> 01:56:33.600
live.

01:56:34.200 --> 01:56:40.440
God did this so that men would seek him
and perhaps reach out for him and find

01:56:40.440 --> 01:56:44.500
him, though he is not far from each one of
us.

01:56:45.500 --> 01:56:52.220
For in him, we live and move and have our
being, as some of your own poets have

01:56:52.220 --> 01:56:55.220
said, we are his offsprings.

01:56:56.380 --> 01:57:02.880
Therefore, since we are God's offspring,
we should not think that the divine being

01:57:02.880 --> 01:57:10.020
is like gold or silver or stone,
an image made by man's design and skill.

01:57:10.800 --> 01:57:17.540
In the past, God overlooked such
ignorance, but now he commands all people

01:57:17.540 --> 01:57:20.120
everywhere to repent.

01:57:21.580 --> 01:57:28.380
For he has set a day when he will judge
the world with justice by the man he has

01:57:28.380 --> 01:57:28.760
appointed.

01:57:30.020 --> 01:57:36.080
He has given proof of this to all men by
raising him from the dead.

01:57:36.680 --> 01:57:40.240
When they heard about the resurrection of
the dead, some of them sneered,

01:57:41.360 --> 01:57:44.480
but others said, we want to hear you again
on this subject.

01:57:46.000 --> 01:57:47.980
At that, Paul left the council.

01:57:48.940 --> 01:57:51.720
A few men became followers of Paul and
believed.

01:57:54.380 --> 01:58:00.280
Among them was Dionysius, a member of the
Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris,

01:58:00.600 --> 01:58:01.600
and a number of others.

01:58:04.580 --> 01:58:07.620
After this, Paul left Athens and went to
Corinth.

01:58:08.520 --> 01:58:12.940
There he met a Jew named Aquila,
a native of Pontus, who had recently come

01:58:12.940 --> 01:58:16.920
from Italy with his wife Priscilla,
because Claudius had ordered all the Jews

01:58:16.920 --> 01:58:17.720
to leave Rome.

01:58:18.740 --> 01:58:23.140
Paul went to see them, and because he was
a tentmaker, as they were, he stayed and

01:58:23.140 --> 01:58:23.800
worked with them.

01:58:25.300 --> 01:58:29.660
Every Sabbath, he reasoned in the
synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and

01:58:29.660 --> 01:58:30.060
Greeks.

01:58:30.700 --> 01:58:34.640
When Silas and Timothy came from
Macedonia, Paul devoted himself

01:58:34.640 --> 01:58:39.780
exclusively to preaching, testifying to
the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

01:58:40.440 --> 01:58:45.140
But when the Jews opposed Paul and became
abusive, he shook out his clothes in

01:58:45.140 --> 01:58:48.080
protest and said to them, Your blood be on
your own heads.

01:58:49.060 --> 01:58:51.100
I am clear of my responsibility.

01:58:53.020 --> 01:58:55.840
From now on, I will go to the Gentiles.

01:58:58.840 --> 01:59:03.620
Then Paul left the synagogue and went next
door to the house of Titius Justus,

01:59:03.780 --> 01:59:04.940
a worshiper of God.

01:59:06.020 --> 01:59:09.840
Crispus, the synagogue ruler, and his
entire household believed in the Lord,

01:59:10.220 --> 01:59:13.100
and many of the Corinthians who heard him
believed and were baptized.

01:59:21.940 --> 01:59:25.040
One night, the Lord spoke to Paul in a
vision.

01:59:25.980 --> 01:59:27.120
Do not be afraid.

01:59:28.180 --> 01:59:29.420
Keep on speaking.

01:59:30.980 --> 01:59:32.280
Do not be silent.

01:59:33.300 --> 01:59:38.880
For I am with you, and no one is going to
attack and harm you, because I have many

01:59:38.880 --> 01:59:39.740
people in the city.

01:59:43.020 --> 01:59:46.980
So Paul stayed for a year and a half,
teaching them the word of God.

01:59:57.730 --> 02:00:02.790
While Galileo was pro-consul of Achaia,
the Jews made a united attack on Paul and

02:00:02.790 --> 02:00:03.690
brought him into court.

02:00:06.750 --> 02:00:13.930
This man, they charged, is persuading the
people to worship God in ways contrary to

02:00:13.930 --> 02:00:14.410
the law.

02:00:15.250 --> 02:00:22.110
Just as Paul was about to speak,
Galileo said to the Jews, If you Jews were

02:00:22.110 --> 02:00:27.950
making a complaint about some misdemeanor
or serious crime, it would be reasonable

02:00:27.950 --> 02:00:29.530
for me to listen to you.

02:00:31.430 --> 02:00:38.770
But since it involves questions about
words and names and your own law,

02:00:40.530 --> 02:00:42.110
settle the matter yourselves.

02:00:51.720 --> 02:00:54.300
I will not be a judge of such things.

02:00:54.780 --> 02:00:56.520
So he had them ejected from the court.

02:00:57.400 --> 02:01:01.400
Then they all turned on Sosthenes,
the synagogue ruler, and beat him in front

02:01:01.400 --> 02:01:01.920
of the court.

02:01:02.480 --> 02:01:04.420
But Galileo showed no concern whatever.

02:01:04.420 --> 02:01:05.560
I love you.

02:01:20.270 --> 02:01:22.670
Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time.

02:01:23.250 --> 02:01:26.890
Then he left the brothers and sailed for
Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and

02:01:26.890 --> 02:01:27.250
Aquila.

02:01:27.830 --> 02:01:32.310
Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off
at Cencheria because of a vow he had

02:01:32.310 --> 02:01:32.590
taken.

02:01:34.010 --> 02:01:37.190
They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left
Priscilla and Aquila.

02:01:38.010 --> 02:01:40.830
He himself went into the synagogue and
reasoned with the Jews.

02:01:44.790 --> 02:01:47.790
When they asked him to spend more time
with them, he declined.

02:01:51.460 --> 02:01:57.640
But as he left, he promised, I will come
back, if it is God's will.

02:01:58.800 --> 02:02:00.600
Then he set sail from Ephesus.

02:02:00.980 --> 02:02:05.060
When he landed at Caesarea, he went up and
greeted the church and then went down to

02:02:05.060 --> 02:02:05.640
Antioch.

02:02:06.300 --> 02:02:10.960
After spending some time in Antioch,
Paul set out from there and traveled from

02:02:10.960 --> 02:02:15.500
place to place throughout the region of
Galatia and Perigia, strengthening all the

02:02:15.500 --> 02:02:15.960
disciples.

02:02:17.380 --> 02:02:21.940
Meanwhile, a Jew named Apollos,
a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus.

02:02:22.180 --> 02:02:25.300
He was a learned man with a thorough
knowledge of the scriptures.

02:02:26.340 --> 02:02:30.540
He had been instructed in the way of the
Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and

02:02:30.540 --> 02:02:34.640
talked about Jesus accurately,
though he knew only the baptism of John.

02:02:36.200 --> 02:02:38.160
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue.

02:02:39.180 --> 02:02:43.380
When Priscilla and Aquila heard him,
they invited him to their home and

02:02:43.380 --> 02:02:45.940
explained to him the way of God more
adequately.

02:02:47.040 --> 02:02:51.200
When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia,
the brothers encouraged him and wrote to

02:02:51.200 --> 02:02:52.720
the disciples there to welcome him.

02:02:53.640 --> 02:02:57.480
On arriving, he was a great help to those
who by grace had believed, for he

02:02:57.480 --> 02:03:02.320
vigorously refuted the Jews in public
debate, proving from the scriptures that

02:03:02.320 --> 02:03:03.540
Jesus was the Christ.

02:03:05.140 --> 02:03:09.920
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took
the road through the interior and arrived

02:03:09.920 --> 02:03:10.480
at Ephesus.

02:03:11.280 --> 02:03:15.620
There he found some disciples and asked
them, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when

02:03:15.620 --> 02:03:16.000
you believed?

02:03:16.520 --> 02:03:19.640
They answered, No, we have not even heard
there is a Holy Spirit.

02:03:20.400 --> 02:03:23.420
So Paul asked them, What baptism did you
receive?

02:03:23.700 --> 02:03:25.340
John's baptism, they replied.

02:03:25.920 --> 02:03:28.540
Paul said John's baptism was a baptism of
repentance.

02:03:29.500 --> 02:03:32.920
He told the people to believe in the one
coming after him, that is, in Jesus.

02:03:33.920 --> 02:03:37.360
On hearing this, they were baptized into
the name of the Lord Jesus.

02:03:38.600 --> 02:03:43.160
When Paul placed his hands on them,
the Holy Spirit came on them, and they

02:03:43.160 --> 02:03:45.100
spoke in tongues and prophesied.

02:03:45.860 --> 02:03:47.740
There were about twelve men in all.

02:03:49.020 --> 02:03:52.080
Paul entered the synagogue and spoke
boldly there for three months,

02:03:53.060 --> 02:03:55.440
arguing persuasively about the kingdom of
God.

02:03:55.980 --> 02:03:59.180
But some of them became obstinate.

02:04:00.340 --> 02:04:04.480
They refused to believe and publicly
maligned the way.

02:04:05.420 --> 02:04:06.400
So Paul left them.

02:04:07.160 --> 02:04:10.740
He took the disciples with him and had
discussions daily in the lecture hall of

02:04:10.740 --> 02:04:11.340
Tyrannus.

02:04:12.700 --> 02:04:15.760
This went on for two years, so that all
the Jews and Greeks who lived in the

02:04:15.760 --> 02:04:17.580
province of Asia heard the word of the
Lord.

02:04:18.660 --> 02:04:21.440
God did extraordinary miracles through
Paul.

02:04:22.880 --> 02:04:27.760
So that even handkerchiefs and aprons that
had touched him were taken to the sick,

02:04:28.000 --> 02:04:31.520
and their illnesses were cured,
and the evil spirits left them.

02:04:32.380 --> 02:04:36.660
Some Jews who went around driving out evil
spirits tried to invoke the name of the

02:04:36.660 --> 02:04:38.700
Lord Jesus over those who were
demon-possessed.

02:04:39.320 --> 02:04:45.840
They would say, In the name of Jesus,
whom Paul preaches, I command you to come

02:04:45.840 --> 02:04:46.080
out.

02:04:47.100 --> 02:04:51.320
Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief
priest, were doing this.

02:04:52.460 --> 02:04:56.880
And one day the evil spirit answered them,
Jesus I know, and I know about Paul,

02:04:56.960 --> 02:04:57.700
but who are you?

02:04:58.700 --> 02:05:02.700
Then the man who had the evil spirit
jumped on them and overpowered them all.

02:05:02.800 --> 02:05:07.200
He gave them such a beating that they ran
out of the house naked and bleeding.

02:05:07.760 --> 02:05:11.660
When this became known to the Jews and
Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all

02:05:11.660 --> 02:05:16.100
seized with fear, and the name of the Lord
Jesus was held in high honor.

02:05:20.550 --> 02:05:24.690
Many of those who believed now came and
openly confessed their evil deeds.

02:05:25.670 --> 02:05:29.810
A number who had practiced sorcery brought
their scrolls together and burned them

02:05:29.810 --> 02:05:30.210
publicly.

02:05:31.090 --> 02:05:36.010
When they calculated the value of the
scrolls, the total came to 50,000

02:05:36.010 --> 02:05:36.510
drachmas.

02:05:38.050 --> 02:05:42.090
In this way, the word of the Lord spread
widely and grew in power.

02:05:46.430 --> 02:05:50.650
After all this had happened, Paul decided
to go to Jerusalem, passing through

02:05:50.650 --> 02:05:52.310
Macedonia and Achaia.

02:05:53.530 --> 02:05:58.230
After I have been there, he said,
I must visit Rome also.

02:06:02.360 --> 02:06:06.820
He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and
Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed in

02:06:06.820 --> 02:06:08.700
the province of Asia a little longer.

02:06:13.750 --> 02:06:17.590
About that time, there arose a great
disturbance about the way.

02:06:18.330 --> 02:06:22.410
A silversmith named Demetrius,
who made silver shrines of Artemis,

02:06:22.890 --> 02:06:25.290
brought in no little business for the
craftsmen.

02:06:25.850 --> 02:06:29.850
He called them together, along with the
workmen in related trades, and said,

02:06:30.410 --> 02:06:35.330
Men, you know we receive a good income
from this business.

02:06:36.330 --> 02:06:44.610
And you see and hear how this fellow,
Paul, has convinced and led astray large

02:06:44.610 --> 02:06:51.290
numbers of people here in Ephesus and in
practically the whole province of Asia.

02:06:53.850 --> 02:07:01.310
He says that man-made gods are no gods at
all.

02:07:03.010 --> 02:07:10.650
There's danger, not only that our trade
will lose its good name, but also that the

02:07:10.650 --> 02:07:19.770
temple of the great goddess Artemis will
be discredited, and the goddess herself,

02:07:20.370 --> 02:07:30.430
whose worship throughout the province of
Asia and the world, will be robbed of her

02:07:30.430 --> 02:07:32.210
divine majesty.

02:07:32.910 --> 02:07:35.810
When they heard this, they were furious
and began shouting.

02:07:44.340 --> 02:07:47.120
Break this Artemis of Ephesus!

02:07:49.140 --> 02:07:51.520
Soon the whole city was in an uproar.

02:07:53.360 --> 02:07:57.600
The people seized Gaius and Aristarchus,
Paul's traveling companions from

02:07:57.600 --> 02:08:00.560
Macedonia, and rushed as one man into the
theater.

02:08:01.240 --> 02:08:04.320
Paul wanted to appear before the crowd,
but the disciples would not let him.

02:08:05.500 --> 02:08:09.360
Even some of the officials of the
province, friends of Paul, sent him a

02:08:09.360 --> 02:08:11.640
message begging him not to venture into
the theater.

02:08:12.460 --> 02:08:14.260
The assembly was in confusion.

02:08:14.680 --> 02:08:16.500
Some were shouting one thing, some
another.

02:08:16.820 --> 02:08:19.640
Most of the people did not even know why
they were there.

02:08:20.540 --> 02:08:24.520
The Jews pushed Alexander to the front,
and some of the crowd shouted instructions

02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:25.100
to him.

02:08:26.100 --> 02:08:29.120
He motioned for silence in order to make a
defense before the people.

02:08:29.780 --> 02:08:33.720
But when they realized he was a Jew,
they all shouted in unison for about two

02:08:33.720 --> 02:08:34.280
hours.

02:08:34.820 --> 02:08:38.180
Break this Artemis of Ephesus!

02:08:40.580 --> 02:08:48.240
The city clerk quieted the crowd and said,
Men of Ephesus, doesn't all the world know

02:08:48.240 --> 02:08:53.520
that the city of Ephesus is the guardian
of the temple of the great Artemis,

02:08:54.460 --> 02:08:56.340
and of her image which fell from heaven?

02:09:00.880 --> 02:09:07.580
Therefore, since these facts are
undeniable, you ought to be quiet and not

02:09:07.580 --> 02:09:08.160
do anything.

02:09:11.060 --> 02:09:16.920
You have brought these men here though
they have neither robbed temples nor

02:09:16.920 --> 02:09:18.320
blasphemed our goddess.

02:09:21.040 --> 02:09:28.120
If then Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen
have a grievance against anybody,

02:09:28.900 --> 02:09:33.200
the courts are open and there are
pro-consuls.

02:09:33.420 --> 02:09:35.460
They can press charges.

02:09:37.640 --> 02:09:45.820
If there is anything further you want to
bring up, it must be settled in a legal

02:09:45.820 --> 02:09:46.520
assembly.

02:09:47.340 --> 02:09:51.740
As it is, we are in danger of being
charged with rioting because of today's

02:09:51.740 --> 02:09:52.180
events.

02:09:53.440 --> 02:09:59.940
In that case, we would not be able to
account for this commotion since there is

02:09:59.940 --> 02:10:02.400
no reason for it.

02:10:04.780 --> 02:10:07.520
After he had said this, he dismissed the
assembly.

02:11:11.790 --> 02:11:15.570
When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for
the disciples.

02:11:16.710 --> 02:11:20.530
After encouraging them, he said goodbye
and set out for Macedonia.

02:11:21.730 --> 02:11:26.470
He traveled through that area speaking
many words of encouragement to the people

02:11:27.110 --> 02:11:32.490
and finally arrived in Greece where he
stayed three months because the Jews made

02:11:32.490 --> 02:11:35.550
a plot against him just as he was about to
sail for Syria.

02:11:36.510 --> 02:11:38.710
He decided to go back through Macedonia.

02:11:39.910 --> 02:11:42.110
He was accompanied by Socrates,

02:11:48.930 --> 02:11:56.170
son of Pyrrhus from Borea, Aristarchus and
Sagundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from

02:11:56.170 --> 02:11:59.990
Deribi, Timothy also, and Tychicus and
Trofimus from the province of Asia.

02:12:01.230 --> 02:12:03.870
These men went on ahead and waited for us
at Troas.

02:12:04.290 --> 02:12:10.190
But we sailed from Philippi after the
Feast of Unleavened Bread and five days

02:12:10.190 --> 02:12:13.970
later joined the others at Troas where we
stayed seven days.

02:12:41.620 --> 02:12:46.060
On the first day of the week, we came
together to break bread.

02:12:47.400 --> 02:12:51.440
Paul spoke to the people and because he
intended to leave the next day,

02:12:51.440 --> 02:12:53.640
kept on talking until midnight.

02:12:54.240 --> 02:12:57.320
There were many lamps in the upstairs room
where we were meeting.

02:12:58.100 --> 02:13:03.020
Seated in a window was a young man named
Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep

02:13:03.020 --> 02:13:05.420
sleep as Paul talked on and on.

02:13:07.220 --> 02:13:12.060
When he was sound asleep, he fell to the
ground from the third story and was picked

02:13:12.060 --> 02:13:12.700
up dead.

02:13:15.120 --> 02:13:19.240
Paul went down, threw himself on the young
man and put his arms around him.

02:13:19.240 --> 02:13:21.460
Don't be alarmed, he said.

02:13:39.800 --> 02:13:41.420
Ah, he's alive!

02:13:44.460 --> 02:13:47.700
Then he went upstairs again and broke
bread and ate.

02:13:48.440 --> 02:13:51.140
After talking until daylight, he left.

02:13:51.820 --> 02:13:55.340
The people took the young man home alive
and were greatly comforted.

02:14:00.350 --> 02:14:04.990
We went on ahead to the ship and sailed
for Asos where we were going to take Paul

02:14:04.990 --> 02:14:05.430
aboard.

02:14:06.030 --> 02:14:09.050
He had made this arrangement because he
was going there on foot.

02:14:09.590 --> 02:14:13.130
When he met us at Asos, we took him aboard
and went on to Mytilene.

02:14:13.930 --> 02:14:17.230
The next day, we set sail from there and
arrived off Chios.

02:14:17.790 --> 02:14:22.090
The day after that, we crossed over to
Samos and on the following day arrived at

02:14:22.090 --> 02:14:22.450
Miletus.

02:14:23.090 --> 02:14:27.350
Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to
avoid spending time in the province of

02:14:27.350 --> 02:14:31.350
Asia, for he was in a hurry to reach
Jerusalem if possible by the day of

02:14:31.350 --> 02:14:31.850
Pentecost.

02:14:36.070 --> 02:14:39.790
From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the
elders of the church.

02:14:40.230 --> 02:14:44.870
When they arrived, he said to them,
You know how I lived the whole time I was

02:14:44.870 --> 02:14:47.690
with you from the first day I came into
the province of Asia.

02:14:48.290 --> 02:14:56.850
I served the Lord with great humility and
with tears, although I was severely tested

02:14:56.850 --> 02:14:57.990
by the plots of the Jews.

02:14:58.930 --> 02:15:03.530
You know that I have not hesitated to
preach anything that would be helpful to

02:15:03.530 --> 02:15:07.370
you, but have taught you publicly and from
house to house.

02:15:08.210 --> 02:15:14.110
I have declared to both Jews and Greeks
that they must turn to God in repentance

02:15:14.110 --> 02:15:16.790
and have faith in our Lord Jesus.

02:15:18.510 --> 02:15:25.150
And now, compelled by the Spirit,
I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what

02:15:25.150 --> 02:15:26.150
will happen to me there.

02:15:26.790 --> 02:15:34.750
I only know that in every city the Holy
Spirit warns me that prison and hardships

02:15:34.750 --> 02:15:36.050
are facing me.

02:15:39.990 --> 02:15:48.030
However, I consider my life worth nothing
to me if only I may finish the race and

02:15:48.030 --> 02:15:55.730
complete the task the Lord Jesus has given
me, the task of testifying to the gospel

02:15:55.730 --> 02:15:56.710
of God's grace.

02:16:01.130 --> 02:16:08.450
Now I know that none of you, among whom I
have gone about preaching the kingdom,

02:16:11.110 --> 02:16:12.730
will ever see me again.

02:16:21.870 --> 02:16:29.110
And therefore, I declare to you today that
I am innocent of the blood of all men,

02:16:30.310 --> 02:16:36.530
for I have not hesitated to proclaim to
you the whole will of God.

02:16:42.270 --> 02:16:50.490
Keep watch over yourselves and all the
flock of which the Holy Spirit has made

02:16:50.490 --> 02:16:51.410
you overseers.

02:16:53.050 --> 02:16:56.530
Be shepherds of the church of God,
which he bought with his own blood.

02:16:57.310 --> 02:17:01.730
I know that after I leave, savage wolves
will come in among you and will not spare

02:17:01.730 --> 02:17:02.270
the flock.

02:17:02.730 --> 02:17:08.770
Even from your own number, men will arise
and distort the truth in order to draw

02:17:08.770 --> 02:17:10.270
away disciples after them.

02:17:10.910 --> 02:17:13.490
So be on your guard.

02:17:13.490 --> 02:17:20.590
And remember that for three years,
I never stopped warning each of you,

02:17:20.850 --> 02:17:23.370
night and day, with tears.

02:17:31.520 --> 02:17:45.180
Now, I commit you to God and to the word
of his grace, which can build you up and

02:17:45.180 --> 02:17:48.400
give you an inheritance among all those
who are sanctified.

02:17:52.170 --> 02:17:57.370
I have not coveted anyone's silver or gold
or clothing.

02:17:58.210 --> 02:18:03.510
You yourselves know that these hands of
mine have supplied my own needs and the

02:18:03.510 --> 02:18:04.530
needs of my companions.

02:18:05.810 --> 02:18:12.450
In everything I did, I showed you that by
this kind of hard work, we must help the

02:18:12.450 --> 02:18:12.670
weak.

02:18:13.330 --> 02:18:20.730
Remembering the words the Lord Jesus
himself said, it is more blessed to give

02:18:20.730 --> 02:18:22.530
than to receive.

02:18:32.160 --> 02:18:35.780
When he had said this, he knelt down with
all of them and prayed.

02:18:53.050 --> 02:18:55.890
They all wept as they embraced him and
kissed him.

02:18:56.590 --> 02:19:00.410
What grieved them most was his statement
that they would never see his face again.

02:19:01.390 --> 02:19:03.070
Then they accompanied him to the ship.

02:19:16.660 --> 02:19:20.760
After we had torn ourselves away from
them, we put out to sea and sailed

02:19:20.760 --> 02:19:21.860
straight to Kos.

02:19:22.480 --> 02:19:25.560
The next day, we went to Rhodes and from
there to Phatara.

02:19:26.680 --> 02:19:31.100
We found a ship crossing over to
Phoenicia, went on board and set sail.

02:19:32.160 --> 02:19:36.540
After sighting Cyprus and passing to the
south of it, we sailed on to Syria.

02:19:37.400 --> 02:19:40.480
We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to
unload its cargo.

02:19:41.620 --> 02:19:44.900
Finding the disciples there, we stayed
with them seven days.

02:19:45.380 --> 02:19:48.680
Through the Spirit, they urged Paul not to
go on to Jerusalem.

02:19:50.200 --> 02:19:53.460
But when our time was up, we left and
continued on our way.

02:19:54.320 --> 02:19:57.580
All the disciples and their wives and
children accompanied us out of the city

02:19:57.580 --> 02:19:59.780
and there on the beach, we knelt to pray.

02:20:03.930 --> 02:20:07.710
After saying goodbye to each other,
we went aboard the ship and they returned

02:20:07.710 --> 02:20:08.110
home.

02:20:15.110 --> 02:20:19.810
We continued our voyage from Tyre and
landed at Ptolemus, where we greeted the

02:20:19.810 --> 02:20:21.470
brothers and stayed with them for a day.

02:20:23.850 --> 02:20:27.970
Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea
and stayed at the house of Philip the

02:20:27.970 --> 02:20:29.550
Evangelist, one of the seven.

02:20:30.310 --> 02:20:32.970
He had four unmarried daughters who
prophesied.

02:20:34.190 --> 02:20:38.190
After we had been there a number of days,
a prophet named Agabus came down from

02:20:38.190 --> 02:20:38.730
Judea.

02:20:41.750 --> 02:20:47.770
Coming over to us, he took Paul's belt,
tied his own hands and feet with it and

02:20:47.770 --> 02:20:53.830
said, The Holy Spirit says, in this way
the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner

02:20:53.830 --> 02:20:57.710
of this belt and will hand him over to the
Gentiles.

02:20:58.930 --> 02:21:03.010
When we heard this, we and the people
there pleaded with Paul not to go up to

02:21:03.010 --> 02:21:03.490
Jerusalem.

02:21:04.230 --> 02:21:07.590
Then Paul answered, Why are you weeping
and breaking my heart?

02:21:09.230 --> 02:21:15.490
I am ready not only to be bound,
but also to die in Jerusalem for the name

02:21:15.490 --> 02:21:16.230
of the Lord Jesus.

02:21:17.090 --> 02:21:21.610
When he would not be dissuaded,
we gave up and said, The Lord's will be

02:21:21.610 --> 02:21:21.830
done.

02:21:25.170 --> 02:21:27.490
After this, we got ready and went up to
Jerusalem.

02:21:28.110 --> 02:21:31.890
Some of the disciples from Caesarea
accompanied us and brought us to the home

02:21:31.890 --> 02:21:33.810
of Manasseh, where we were to stay.

02:21:34.470 --> 02:21:37.110
He was a man from Cyprus and one of the
early disciples.

02:21:37.710 --> 02:21:40.950
When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers
received us warmly.

02:21:42.710 --> 02:21:46.570
The next day, Paul and the rest of us went
to see James, and all the elders were

02:21:46.570 --> 02:21:46.910
present.

02:21:47.770 --> 02:21:51.850
Paul greeted them and reported in detail
what God had done among the Gentiles

02:21:51.850 --> 02:21:52.670
through his ministry.

02:21:54.630 --> 02:21:56.910
When they heard this, they praised God.

02:21:57.310 --> 02:22:03.730
Then they said to Paul, You see,
brother, how many thousands of Jews have

02:22:03.730 --> 02:22:08.110
believed, and all of them are zealous for
the law.

02:22:08.990 --> 02:22:14.490
They have been informed that you teach all
the Jews who live among the Gentiles to

02:22:14.490 --> 02:22:21.250
turn away from Moses, telling them not to
circumcise their children, or live

02:22:21.250 --> 02:22:22.270
according to our customs.

02:22:25.490 --> 02:22:26.550
What shall we do?

02:22:29.630 --> 02:22:31.810
They will certainly hear that you have
come.

02:22:35.560 --> 02:22:37.000
So do what we tell you.

02:22:39.320 --> 02:22:42.020
There are four men with us who have made a
vow.

02:22:44.500 --> 02:22:51.620
Take these men, join in their purification
rites, and pay their expenses so that they

02:22:51.620 --> 02:22:52.760
can have their head shaved.

02:22:53.560 --> 02:22:59.000
Then everybody will know there is no truth
in these reports about you, but that you

02:22:59.000 --> 02:23:01.340
yourself are living in obedience to the
law.

02:23:05.330 --> 02:23:10.770
As for the Gentile believers, we have
written to them our decision that they

02:23:10.770 --> 02:23:15.230
should abstain from food sacrifice to
idols, from blood, from the meat of

02:23:15.230 --> 02:23:17.370
strangled animals, and from sexual
immorality.

02:23:18.930 --> 02:23:22.790
The next day, Paul took the men and
purified himself along with them.

02:23:23.310 --> 02:23:27.250
Then he went to the temple to give notice
of the date when the days of purification

02:23:27.250 --> 02:23:30.450
would end, and the offering would be made
for each of them.

02:23:46.070 --> 02:23:50.930
When the seven days were nearly over,
some Jews from the province of Asia saw

02:23:50.930 --> 02:23:51.790
Paul at the temple.

02:23:52.410 --> 02:23:58.370
They stirred up the whole crowd and seized
him, shouting, Men of Israel, help us!

02:23:59.490 --> 02:24:06.670
This is the man who teaches all men
everywhere against our people and our law

02:24:06.670 --> 02:24:08.090
and displace.

02:24:08.630 --> 02:24:15.590
And besides, he has brought Greeks into
the temple area and defiled this holy

02:24:15.590 --> 02:24:16.110
place.

02:24:20.250 --> 02:24:24.490
They had previously seen Trophimus the
Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed

02:24:24.490 --> 02:24:26.310
that Paul had brought him into the temple
area.

02:24:27.630 --> 02:24:31.370
The whole city was aroused, and the people
came running from all directions.

02:24:32.570 --> 02:24:36.250
Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the
temple, and immediately the gates were

02:24:36.250 --> 02:24:36.570
shut.

02:24:37.130 --> 02:24:40.010
While they were trying to kill him,
news reached the commander of the Roman

02:24:40.010 --> 02:24:43.110
troops that the whole city of Jerusalem
was in an uproar.

02:24:43.950 --> 02:24:47.110
He at once took some officers and soldiers
and ran down to the crowd.

02:24:47.930 --> 02:24:51.490
When the rioters saw the commander and his
soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

02:24:51.970 --> 02:24:56.250
The commander came up and arrested him and
ordered him to be bound with two chains.

02:25:02.890 --> 02:25:05.310
Then he asked who he was and what he had
done.

02:25:06.030 --> 02:25:10.370
Some in the crowd shouted one thing and
some another, and since the commander

02:25:10.370 --> 02:25:14.930
could not get at the truth because of the
uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into

02:25:14.930 --> 02:25:15.470
the barracks.

02:25:28.030 --> 02:25:32.690
When Paul reached the steps, the violence
of the mob was so great he had to be

02:25:32.690 --> 02:25:33.830
carried by the soldiers.

02:25:34.270 --> 02:25:40.770
The crowd that followed kept shouting,
''Away with him!'' As the soldiers were

02:25:40.770 --> 02:25:45.610
about to take Paul into the barracks,
he asked the commander, ''May I say

02:25:45.610 --> 02:25:49.570
something to you?'' ''Do you speak
Greek?'' he replied.

02:25:52.070 --> 02:25:57.510
''Aren't you the Egyptian who started a
revolt and led 4,000 terrorists out into

02:25:57.510 --> 02:26:04.610
the desert some time ago?'' Paul answered,
''I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia,

02:26:05.090 --> 02:26:07.430
a citizen of no ordinary city.

02:26:08.570 --> 02:26:10.490
Please let me speak to the people.''

02:26:14.110 --> 02:26:17.490
Having received the commander's
permission, Paul stood on the steps and

02:26:17.490 --> 02:26:18.550
motioned to the crowd.

02:26:19.370 --> 02:26:26.630
When they were all silent, he said to them
in Aramaic, ''Brothers and fathers,

02:26:28.050 --> 02:26:33.050
listen now to my defense.'' When they
heard him speak to them in Aramaic,

02:26:33.130 --> 02:26:34.250
they became very quiet.

02:26:34.970 --> 02:26:44.350
Then Paul said, ''I am a Jew born in
Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this

02:26:44.350 --> 02:26:44.710
city.

02:26:47.110 --> 02:26:55.610
Under Gamaliel, I was thoroughly trained
in the law of our fathers and was just as

02:26:55.610 --> 02:26:56.610
zealous for God.

02:26:57.150 --> 02:27:07.870
As any of you are today, I persecuted the
followers of this way to their death,

02:27:09.470 --> 02:27:15.810
arresting both men and women and throwing
them into prison, as also the high priest

02:27:15.810 --> 02:27:17.710
and all the council can testify.

02:27:18.770 --> 02:27:25.330
I even obtained letters from them to their
brothers in Damascus and went there to

02:27:25.330 --> 02:27:30.010
bring these people as prisoners to
Jerusalem to be punished.

02:27:30.930 --> 02:27:39.830
About noon, as I came near Damascus,
suddenly a bright light from heaven

02:27:39.830 --> 02:27:41.450
flashed around me.

02:27:42.430 --> 02:27:51.170
I fell to the ground and heard a voice say
to me, ''Saul, Saul, why do you persecute

02:27:51.170 --> 02:27:55.890
me?'' ''Who are you, Lord?'' I asked.

02:27:56.930 --> 02:28:03.390
''I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are
persecuting,'' he replied.

02:28:05.290 --> 02:28:11.890
My companions saw the light, but they did
not understand the voice of him who was

02:28:11.890 --> 02:28:12.850
speaking to me.

02:28:16.150 --> 02:28:18.890
''What shall I do, Lord?'' I asked.

02:28:19.590 --> 02:28:23.890
''Get up,'' the Lord said, ''and go into
Damascus.

02:28:24.790 --> 02:28:33.390
There you will be told all that you have
been assigned to do.'' My companions led

02:28:33.390 --> 02:28:39.910
me by the hand into Damascus because the
brilliance of the light had blinded me.

02:28:42.190 --> 02:28:45.210
A man named Ananias came to see me.

02:28:46.210 --> 02:28:51.830
He was a devout observer of the law and
highly respected by all the Jews living

02:28:51.830 --> 02:28:52.210
there.

02:28:53.730 --> 02:29:04.190
He stood beside me and said, ''Brother
Saul, receive your sight.'' And at that

02:29:04.190 --> 02:29:07.570
very moment, I was able to see him.

02:29:08.670 --> 02:29:19.950
Then he said, ''The God of our fathers has
chosen you to know his will and to see the

02:29:19.950 --> 02:29:24.750
righteous one and to hear words from his
mouth.

02:29:26.170 --> 02:29:33.210
You will be his witness to all men of what
you have seen and heard.

02:29:34.290 --> 02:29:36.710
And now, what are you waiting for?

02:29:36.870 --> 02:29:43.070
Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins
away.'' Calling on his name.

02:29:46.210 --> 02:29:51.290
When I returned to Jerusalem and was
praying at the temple, I fell into a

02:29:51.290 --> 02:29:53.990
trance and saw the Lord speaking.

02:29:55.010 --> 02:29:59.730
''Quick,'' he said to me, ''leave
Jerusalem immediately because they will

02:29:59.730 --> 02:30:07.390
not accept your testimony about me.''
''Lord,'' I replied, ''these men know that

02:30:07.390 --> 02:30:13.430
I went from one synagogue to another to
imprison and beat those who believe in

02:30:13.430 --> 02:30:13.750
you.

02:30:14.490 --> 02:30:19.910
And when the blood of your martyr Stephen
was shed, I stood there giving my approval

02:30:19.910 --> 02:30:23.630
and guarding the clothes of those who were
killing him.

02:30:25.410 --> 02:30:32.990
Then the Lord said to me, ''Go,
I will send you far away to the

02:30:32.990 --> 02:30:36.690
Gentiles.'''' The crowd listened to Paul
until he said this.

02:30:36.970 --> 02:30:40.370
Then they raised their voices and shouted,
''Rid the earth of him.

02:30:40.770 --> 02:30:45.450
He is not fit to live.'' As they were
shouting and throwing off their cloaks and

02:30:45.450 --> 02:30:49.880
flinging dust into the air, the commander
ordered Paul to be taken into the

02:30:49.880 --> 02:30:50.200
barracks.

02:30:50.900 --> 02:30:54.460
He directed that he be flogged and
questioned in order to find out why the

02:30:54.460 --> 02:30:56.220
people were shouting at him like this.

02:31:06.260 --> 02:31:10.680
As they stretched him out to flog him,
Paul said to the centurion standing there,

02:31:10.760 --> 02:31:14.940
''Is it legal for you to flog a Roman
citizen who hasn't even been found

02:31:14.940 --> 02:31:20.280
guilty?'' When the centurion heard this,
he went to the commander and reported it.

02:31:24.840 --> 02:31:26.740
''What are you going to do?'' He asked.

02:31:26.760 --> 02:31:31.940
''This man is a Roman citizen.'' The
commander went to Paul and asked,

02:31:32.120 --> 02:31:35.860
''Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?''

02:31:39.260 --> 02:31:41.160
''Yes, I am.'' He answered.

02:31:41.500 --> 02:31:47.260
Then the commander said, ''I had to pay a
big price for my citizenship, but I was

02:31:47.260 --> 02:31:49.180
born a citizen.'' Paul replied.

02:31:54.100 --> 02:31:56.820
Those who were about to question him
withdrew immediately.

02:31:57.460 --> 02:32:00.920
The commander himself was alarmed when he
realized that he had put Paul,

02:32:01.000 --> 02:32:02.820
a Roman citizen, in chains.

02:32:13.620 --> 02:32:17.360
The next day, since the commander wanted
to find out exactly why Paul was being

02:32:17.360 --> 02:32:21.680
accused by the Jews, he released him and
ordered the chief priests and all the

02:32:21.680 --> 02:32:22.920
Sanhedrin to assemble.

02:32:23.660 --> 02:32:25.860
Then he brought Paul and had him stand
before them.

02:32:26.780 --> 02:32:32.400
Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and
said, ''My brothers, I have fulfilled my

02:32:32.400 --> 02:32:37.340
duty to God in all good conscience to this
day.'' At this, the high priest Ananias

02:32:37.340 --> 02:32:40.280
ordered those standing near Paul to strike
him on the mouth.

02:32:42.140 --> 02:32:46.600
Then Paul said to him, ''God will strike
you, you whitewashed wall!

02:32:47.880 --> 02:32:52.060
You sit there to judge me according to the
law, yet you yourself violate the law by

02:32:52.060 --> 02:32:56.400
commanding that I be struck.'' Those who
were standing near Paul said, ''You dare

02:32:56.400 --> 02:33:04.280
to insult God's high priest?'' Paul
replied, ''Brothers, I did not realize

02:33:04.280 --> 02:33:10.420
that he was the high priest, for it is
written, ''Do not speak evil about the

02:33:10.420 --> 02:33:14.260
ruler of your people.'''' Then Paul,
knowing that some of them were Sadducees

02:33:14.260 --> 02:33:20.280
and the others Pharisees, called out in
the Sanhedrin, ''My brothers, I am a

02:33:20.280 --> 02:33:23.320
Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee.

02:33:24.020 --> 02:33:29.280
I stand on trial because of my hope in the
resurrection of the dead.'' When he said

02:33:29.280 --> 02:33:33.780
this, a dispute broke out between the
Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the

02:33:33.780 --> 02:33:34.860
assembly was divided.

02:33:36.280 --> 02:33:39.620
The Sadducees say that there is no
resurrection, and that there are neither

02:33:39.620 --> 02:33:43.280
angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees
acknowledged them all.

02:33:44.020 --> 02:33:48.380
There was a great uproar, and some of the
teachers of the law who were Pharisees

02:33:48.380 --> 02:33:50.240
stood up and argued vigorously.

02:33:50.780 --> 02:33:53.880
''We find nothing wrong with this man,''
they said.

02:33:54.120 --> 02:34:01.060
''What if a spirit or an angel has spoken
to him?'' The dispute became so violent

02:34:01.060 --> 02:34:04.140
that the commander was afraid Paul would
be torn to pieces by them.

02:34:04.720 --> 02:34:08.680
He ordered the troops to go down and take
him away from them by force and bring him

02:34:08.680 --> 02:34:09.460
into the barracks.

02:34:27.220 --> 02:34:31.640
The following night, the Lord stood near
Paul and said, ''Take courage,

02:34:32.840 --> 02:34:37.020
as you have testified about me in
Jerusalem, so you must also testify in

02:34:37.020 --> 02:34:44.750
Rome.'' The next morning, the Jews formed
a conspiracy and bound themselves with an

02:34:44.750 --> 02:34:47.530
oath not to eat or drink until they had
killed Paul.

02:34:48.070 --> 02:34:50.070
More than 40 men were involved in this
plot.

02:34:50.850 --> 02:34:56.550
They went to the chief priests and elders
and said, ''We have taken a solemn oath

02:34:56.550 --> 02:35:00.970
not to eat anything until we have killed
Paul.

02:35:02.170 --> 02:35:07.250
Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition
the commander to bring him before you on

02:35:07.250 --> 02:35:10.630
the pretext of wanting more accurate
information about his case.

02:35:11.030 --> 02:35:12.830
We are ready to kill him before he gets
here.''

02:35:16.730 --> 02:35:21.490
But when the son of Paul's sister heard of
this plot, he went into the barracks and

02:35:21.490 --> 02:35:21.990
told Paul.

02:35:22.330 --> 02:35:25.330
Then Paul called one of the centurions and
said, ''Take this young man to the

02:35:25.330 --> 02:35:25.610
commander.

02:35:25.690 --> 02:35:28.070
He has something to tell him.'' So he took
him to the commander.

02:35:28.570 --> 02:35:35.430
The centurion said, ''Paul, the prisoner
sent for me and asked me to bring this

02:35:35.430 --> 02:35:42.970
young man to you because he has something
to tell you.'' The commander took the

02:35:42.970 --> 02:35:48.970
young man by the hand and drew him aside
and asked him, ''What is it you want to

02:35:48.970 --> 02:35:56.210
tell me?'' He said, ''The Jews have agreed
to ask you to bring Paul before the

02:35:56.210 --> 02:36:01.710
Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of
wanting more accurate information about

02:36:01.710 --> 02:36:01.950
him.

02:36:03.190 --> 02:36:07.230
Don't give in to them because more than 40
of them are waiting in ambush for him.

02:36:09.710 --> 02:36:13.410
They have taken an oath not to eat or
drink until they have killed him.

02:36:14.410 --> 02:36:20.350
They are ready now, waiting for your
consent to their request.'' The commander

02:36:20.350 --> 02:36:26.990
dismissed the young man and cautioned him,
''Don't tell anyone that you've reported

02:36:26.990 --> 02:36:33.350
this to me.'' Then he called two of his
centurions and ordered them, ''Get ready a

02:36:33.350 --> 02:36:40.110
detachment of 200 soldiers, 70 horsemen
and 200 spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine

02:36:40.110 --> 02:36:40.870
tonight.

02:36:42.470 --> 02:36:51.070
Provide mounts for Paul so that he may be
taken safely to governor Felix.'' He wrote

02:36:51.070 --> 02:36:56.470
a letter as follows, ''Claudius Lysias to
his excellency governor Felix greetings.

02:36:57.430 --> 02:37:01.610
This man was seized by the Jews and they
were about to kill him, but I came with my

02:37:01.610 --> 02:37:05.090
troops and rescued him, for I had learned
that he is a Roman citizen.

02:37:05.790 --> 02:37:09.670
I wanted to know why they were accusing
him, so I brought him to their Sanhedrin.

02:37:10.210 --> 02:37:14.610
I found that the accusation had to do with
questions about their law, but there was

02:37:14.610 --> 02:37:17.610
no charge against him that deserved death
or imprisonment.

02:37:18.150 --> 02:37:22.070
When I was informed of a plot to be
carried out against the man, I sent him to

02:37:22.070 --> 02:37:22.710
you at once.

02:37:23.010 --> 02:37:29.250
I also ordered his accusers to present to
you their case against him.'' So the

02:37:29.250 --> 02:37:33.070
soldiers, carrying out their orders,
took Paul with them during the night and

02:37:33.070 --> 02:37:34.790
brought him as far as Antipatrus.

02:37:37.010 --> 02:37:40.550
The next day they let the cavalry go on
with him while they returned to the

02:37:40.550 --> 02:37:41.030
barracks.

02:37:49.980 --> 02:37:53.740
When the cavalry arrived in Caesarea,
they delivered the letter to the governor

02:37:53.740 --> 02:37:55.420
and handed Paul over to him.

02:37:59.600 --> 02:38:02.720
The governor read the letter and asked
what province he was from.

02:38:03.340 --> 02:38:08.000
Learning that he was from Cilicia,
he said, ''I will hear your case when your

02:38:08.000 --> 02:38:11.860
accusers get here.'' Then he ordered that
Paul be kept under guard in Herod's

02:38:11.860 --> 02:38:12.300
palace.

02:38:19.190 --> 02:38:23.350
Five days later, the high priest Ananias
went down to Caesarea with some of the

02:38:23.350 --> 02:38:27.370
elders and a lawyer named Tertullus,
and they brought their charges against

02:38:27.370 --> 02:38:28.510
Paul before the governor.

02:38:32.270 --> 02:38:36.430
When Paul was called in, Tertullus
presented his case before Felix.

02:38:37.290 --> 02:38:42.610
We have enjoyed a long period of peace
under you and your foresight has brought

02:38:42.610 --> 02:38:48.230
about reforms in this nation everywhere
and in every way, most excellent Felix.

02:38:48.970 --> 02:38:55.450
We acknowledge this with profound
gratitude, but in order not to weary you

02:38:55.450 --> 02:38:59.310
further, I would request that you be kind
enough to hear us briefly.

02:39:01.970 --> 02:39:08.570
We have found this man to be a
troublemaker, stirring up riots among the

02:39:08.570 --> 02:39:10.070
Jews all over the world.

02:39:11.030 --> 02:39:17.390
He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect
and even tried to desecrate the temple.

02:39:18.650 --> 02:39:20.750
So we seized him.

02:39:21.590 --> 02:39:26.190
By examining him yourself, you will be
able to learn the truth about all these

02:39:26.190 --> 02:39:28.110
charges we are bringing against him.

02:39:28.450 --> 02:39:32.570
The Jews joined in the accusation,
asserting that these things were true.

02:39:34.130 --> 02:39:39.090
When the governor motioned for him to
speak, Paul replied, I know that for a

02:39:39.090 --> 02:39:43.310
number of years you have been a judge over
this nation, so I gladly make my defense.

02:39:44.610 --> 02:39:49.470
You can easily verify that no more than 12
days ago, I went up to Jerusalem to

02:39:49.470 --> 02:39:49.750
worship.

02:39:50.610 --> 02:39:56.750
My accusers did not find me arguing with
anyone at the temple or stirring up a

02:39:56.750 --> 02:39:59.010
crowd in the synagogues or anywhere else
in the city.

02:39:59.990 --> 02:40:05.510
And they cannot prove to you the charges
they are now making against me.

02:40:06.930 --> 02:40:12.550
However, I admit that I worship the God of
our fathers as a follower of the way,

02:40:12.550 --> 02:40:13.570
which they call a sect.

02:40:14.890 --> 02:40:21.190
I believe everything that agrees with the
law and that is written in the prophets.

02:40:21.610 --> 02:40:27.310
And I have the same hope in God as these
men, that there will be a resurrection of

02:40:27.310 --> 02:40:28.930
both the righteous and the wicked.

02:40:30.410 --> 02:40:37.050
So I strive always to keep my conscience
clear before God and man.

02:40:39.330 --> 02:40:44.470
After an absence of several years,
I came to Jerusalem to bring my people

02:40:44.470 --> 02:40:46.770
gifts for the poor and to present
offerings.

02:40:47.890 --> 02:40:52.630
I was ceremonially clean when they found
me in the temple courts doing this.

02:40:53.410 --> 02:40:58.870
There was no crowd with me, nor was I
involved in any disturbance.

02:40:59.670 --> 02:41:05.330
But there are some Jews from the province
of Asia who ought to be here before you

02:41:05.330 --> 02:41:08.710
and bring charges if they have anything
against me.

02:41:09.810 --> 02:41:17.250
Or these who are here should state what
crime they found in me when I stood before

02:41:17.250 --> 02:41:24.430
the Sanhedrin, unless it was this one
thing I shouted as I stood in their

02:41:24.430 --> 02:41:24.950
presence.

02:41:26.730 --> 02:41:32.490
It is concerning the resurrection of the
dead that I am on trial before you today.

02:41:34.250 --> 02:41:38.150
Then Felix, who was well acquainted with
the way, adjourned the proceedings.

02:41:41.950 --> 02:41:48.910
When Lysias the commander comes,
he said, I will decide your case.

02:41:58.800 --> 02:42:03.520
He ordered the centurion to keep Paul
under guard, but to give him some freedom

02:42:03.520 --> 02:42:05.820
and permit his friends to take care of his
needs.

02:42:07.580 --> 02:42:12.240
Several days later, Felix came with his
wife, Drusilla, who was a Jewess.

02:42:13.140 --> 02:42:17.560
He sinned for Paul and listened to him as
he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus.

02:42:18.920 --> 02:42:23.340
As Paul discoursed on righteousness,
self-control, and the judgment to come,

02:42:24.320 --> 02:42:27.060
Felix was afraid and said, that's enough
for now.

02:42:27.680 --> 02:42:28.440
You may leave.

02:42:29.040 --> 02:42:32.240
When I find it convenient, I will send for
you.

02:42:33.360 --> 02:42:38.600
At the same time, he was hoping that Paul
would offer him a bribe, so he sent for

02:42:38.600 --> 02:42:40.340
him frequently and talked with him.

02:42:41.380 --> 02:42:46.660
When two years had passed, Felix was
succeeded by Porcius Festus, but because

02:42:46.660 --> 02:42:49.960
Felix wanted to grant a favor to the Jews,
he left Paul in prison.

02:42:53.320 --> 02:42:57.840
Three days after arriving in the province,
Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

02:42:57.840 --> 02:43:02.200
where the chief priests and Jewish leaders
appeared before him and presented the

02:43:02.200 --> 02:43:03.480
charges against Paul.

02:43:05.420 --> 02:43:11.040
They urgently requested Festus as a favor
to them to have Paul transferred to

02:43:11.040 --> 02:43:19.080
Jerusalem, for they were preparing an
ambush to kill him along the way.

02:43:20.900 --> 02:43:26.060
Festus answered, Paul is being held at
Caesarea, and I myself am going there

02:43:26.060 --> 02:43:26.400
soon.

02:43:27.380 --> 02:43:31.220
Let some of your leaders come with me and
press charges against the man there,

02:43:31.500 --> 02:43:33.060
if he's done anything wrong.

02:43:35.300 --> 02:43:38.460
After spending eight or ten days with
them, he went down to Caesarea,

02:43:38.740 --> 02:43:43.000
and the next day he convened the court and
ordered that Paul be brought before him.

02:43:44.820 --> 02:43:49.040
When Paul appeared, the Jews who had come
down from Jerusalem stood around him,

02:43:49.420 --> 02:43:52.900
bringing many serious charges against him,
which they could not prove.

02:43:55.600 --> 02:43:57.420
Then Paul made his defense.

02:43:57.880 --> 02:44:02.800
I have done nothing wrong against the law
of the Jews, or against the temple,

02:44:02.940 --> 02:44:03.920
or against Caesar.

02:44:05.300 --> 02:44:10.220
Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor,
said to Paul, are you willing to go up to

02:44:10.220 --> 02:44:14.560
Jerusalem and stand trial before me there
on these charges?

02:44:15.180 --> 02:44:20.660
Paul answered, I am now standing before
Caesar's court, where I ought to be tried.

02:44:21.350 --> 02:44:26.040
I have not done any wrong to the Jews,
as you yourself know very well.

02:44:27.140 --> 02:44:32.440
If, however, I am guilty of doing anything
deserving death, I do not refuse to die.

02:44:32.520 --> 02:44:40.000
But if the charges brought against me by
these Jews are not true, no one has the

02:44:40.000 --> 02:44:41.400
right to hand me over to them.

02:44:42.120 --> 02:44:43.320
I appeal to Caesar.

02:44:47.060 --> 02:44:51.980
After Festus had conferred with his
counsel, he declared, You have appealed to

02:44:51.980 --> 02:44:52.300
Caesar.

02:44:53.020 --> 02:44:54.740
To Caesar you will go.

02:45:11.260 --> 02:45:15.940
A few days later, King Agrippa and Bernice
arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects

02:45:15.940 --> 02:45:16.740
to Festus.

02:45:17.620 --> 02:45:21.640
Since they were spending many days there,
Festus discussed Paul's case with the

02:45:21.640 --> 02:45:21.920
king.

02:45:22.320 --> 02:45:25.600
He said, There is a man here whom Felix
left as a prisoner.

02:45:26.640 --> 02:45:31.440
When I went to Jerusalem, the chief
priests and elders of the Jews brought

02:45:31.440 --> 02:45:34.000
charges against him and asked that he be
condemned.

02:45:35.100 --> 02:45:40.740
I told them that it is not the Roman
custom to hand over any man before he has

02:45:40.740 --> 02:45:44.640
faced his accusers and has had an
opportunity to defend himself against

02:45:44.640 --> 02:45:45.260
their charges.

02:45:46.580 --> 02:45:51.600
When they came here with me, I did not
delay the case, but convened the court the

02:45:51.600 --> 02:45:54.480
next day and ordered the man to be brought
in.

02:45:55.760 --> 02:46:01.060
When his accusers got up to speak,
they did not charge him with any of the

02:46:01.060 --> 02:46:02.200
crimes I'd expected.

02:46:03.460 --> 02:46:07.940
Instead, they had some points of dispute
with him about their own religion and

02:46:07.940 --> 02:46:12.460
about a dead man named Jesus, whom Paul
claimed was alive.

02:46:14.800 --> 02:46:20.020
I was at a loss how to investigate such
matters, so I asked if he'd be willing to

02:46:20.020 --> 02:46:23.080
go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on
these charges.

02:46:23.960 --> 02:46:30.280
When Paul made his appeal to be held over
for the emperor's decision, I ordered him

02:46:30.280 --> 02:46:32.380
held until I could send him to Caesar.

02:46:35.970 --> 02:46:40.350
Then Agrippa said to Festus, I would like
to hear this man myself.

02:46:41.870 --> 02:46:44.490
He replied, tomorrow you will hear him.

02:46:56.310 --> 02:47:00.850
The next day, Agrippa and Bernice came
with great pomp and entered the audience

02:47:00.850 --> 02:47:04.310
room with the high-ranking officers and
the leading men of the city.

02:47:05.150 --> 02:47:08.010
At the command of Festus, Paul was brought
in.

02:47:14.590 --> 02:47:20.990
Festus said, King Agrippa, and all who are
present with us, you see this man.

02:47:21.670 --> 02:47:27.490
The whole Jewish community has petitioned
me about him in Jerusalem and here in

02:47:27.490 --> 02:47:30.790
Caesarea, shouting that he ought not to
live any longer.

02:47:32.010 --> 02:47:34.670
I found he had done nothing deserving of
death.

02:47:36.010 --> 02:47:40.710
But because he made his appeal to the
emperor, I decided to send him to Rome.

02:47:41.410 --> 02:47:44.570
But I have nothing definite to write to
his majesty about him.

02:47:45.610 --> 02:47:49.730
Therefore, I have brought him before all
of you, and especially before you,

02:47:50.090 --> 02:47:55.030
King Agrippa, so that as a result of this
investigation, I may have something to

02:47:55.030 --> 02:47:55.250
write.

02:47:55.930 --> 02:48:00.830
For I think it is unreasonable to send on
a prisoner without specifying the charges

02:48:00.830 --> 02:48:01.530
against him.

02:48:04.820 --> 02:48:10.820
Then Agrippa said to Paul, you have
permission to speak for yourself.

02:48:13.580 --> 02:48:16.740
So Paul motioned with his hand and began
his defense.

02:48:17.100 --> 02:48:22.680
King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate
to stand before you today as I make my

02:48:22.680 --> 02:48:28.260
defense against all the accusations of the
Jews, and especially so because you are

02:48:28.260 --> 02:48:31.440
well acquainted with all the Jewish
customs and controversies.

02:48:32.100 --> 02:48:35.720
Therefore, I beg you to listen to me
patiently.

02:48:38.260 --> 02:48:43.080
The Jews all know the way I have lived
ever since I was a child, from the

02:48:43.080 --> 02:48:46.580
beginning of my life in my own country and
also in Jerusalem.

02:48:47.380 --> 02:48:52.760
They have known me for a long time and can
testify, if they are willing, that

02:48:52.760 --> 02:48:57.840
according to the strictest sect of our
religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

02:48:58.860 --> 02:49:05.860
And now it is because of my hope in what
God has promised our fathers that I am on

02:49:05.860 --> 02:49:06.520
trial today.

02:49:08.600 --> 02:49:16.660
This is the promise our twelve tribes are
hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly

02:49:16.660 --> 02:49:18.200
serve God day and night.

02:49:19.120 --> 02:49:24.640
O King, it is because of this hope that
the Jews are accusing me.

02:49:27.000 --> 02:49:31.300
Why should any of you consider it
incredible that God raises the dead?

02:49:32.880 --> 02:49:38.520
I, too, was convinced that I ought to do
all that was possible to oppose the name

02:49:38.520 --> 02:49:41.460
of Jesus of Nazareth, and that is just
what I did in Jerusalem.

02:49:42.200 --> 02:49:46.780
On the authority of the chief priests,
I put many of the saints in prison,

02:49:48.100 --> 02:49:53.820
and when they were put to death,
I cast my vote against them.

02:49:56.520 --> 02:50:02.980
Many a time, I went from one synagogue to
another to have them punished,

02:50:03.400 --> 02:50:05.800
and I tried to force them to blaspheme.

02:50:07.820 --> 02:50:13.740
In my obsession against them, I even went
to foreign cities to persecute them.

02:50:14.960 --> 02:50:21.980
On one of these journeys, I was going to
Damascus with the authority and commission

02:50:22.640 --> 02:50:23.980
of the chief priests.

02:50:25.280 --> 02:50:32.440
About noon, O King, as I was on the road,
I saw a light from heaven, brighter than

02:50:32.440 --> 02:50:36.100
the sun, blazing around me and my
companions.

02:50:36.940 --> 02:50:41.020
We all fell to the ground, and I heard a
voice saying to me in Aramaic,

02:50:41.380 --> 02:50:45.200
Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

02:50:46.040 --> 02:50:48.400
It is hard for you to kick against the
goads.

02:50:48.950 --> 02:50:51.760
Then I asked, who are you, Lord?

02:50:52.340 --> 02:50:55.120
I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

02:50:55.940 --> 02:51:01.240
The Lord replied, now get up and stand on
your feet.

02:51:02.140 --> 02:51:08.400
I have appeared to you to appoint you as a
servant and as a witness of what you have

02:51:08.400 --> 02:51:10.700
seen of me and what I will show you.

02:51:11.960 --> 02:51:16.300
I will rescue you from your own people and
from the Gentiles.

02:51:16.920 --> 02:51:23.640
I am sending you to them to open their
eyes and turn them from darkness to light

02:51:23.640 --> 02:51:29.600
and from the power of Satan to God,
so that they may receive forgiveness of

02:51:29.600 --> 02:51:35.760
sins and a place among those who are
sanctified by faith in me.

02:51:37.600 --> 02:51:42.820
So then, King Agrippa, I was not
disobedient to the vision from heaven.

02:51:43.940 --> 02:51:48.200
First to those in Damascus, then to those
in Jerusalem and in all Judea,

02:51:48.520 --> 02:51:54.340
and to the Gentiles also, I preached that
they should repent and turn to God and

02:51:54.340 --> 02:51:56.000
prove their repentance by their deeds.

02:51:57.880 --> 02:52:02.900
That is why the Jews seized me in the
temple courts and tried to kill me.

02:52:03.840 --> 02:52:12.540
But I have had God's help to this very
day, and so I stand here and testify to

02:52:12.540 --> 02:52:14.100
small and great alike.

02:52:15.880 --> 02:52:20.000
I am saying nothing beyond what the
prophets and Moses said would happen,

02:52:20.440 --> 02:52:24.800
that the Christ would suffer and,
as the first to rise from the dead,

02:52:25.300 --> 02:52:29.140
would proclaim light to his own people and
to the Gentiles.

02:52:29.500 --> 02:52:31.960
At this point, Festus interrupted Paul's
defense.

02:52:32.140 --> 02:52:34.500
You're out of your mind, Paul,
he shouted.

02:52:34.700 --> 02:52:37.140
Your great learning is driving you insane.

02:52:38.560 --> 02:52:42.980
I am not insane, most excellent Festus,
Paul replied.

02:52:43.800 --> 02:52:46.820
What I am saying is true and reasonable.

02:52:47.380 --> 02:52:51.200
The king is familiar with these things,
and I can speak freely to him.

02:52:52.560 --> 02:52:58.240
I am convinced that none of this has
escaped his notice, because it was not

02:52:58.240 --> 02:52:59.020
done in a corner.

02:53:01.660 --> 02:53:05.320
King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets?

02:53:07.360 --> 02:53:08.580
I know you do.

02:53:09.420 --> 02:53:16.680
Then Agrippa said to Paul, do you think
that in such a short time you can persuade

02:53:16.680 --> 02:53:18.020
me to be a Christian?

02:53:18.020 --> 02:53:27.580
Paul replied, short time or long,
I pray God that not only you, but all who

02:53:27.580 --> 02:53:36.340
are listening to me today, may become what
I am, except for these chains.

02:53:37.640 --> 02:53:41.920
The king rose, and with him the governor
and Bernice and those sitting with them.

02:53:42.920 --> 02:53:50.640
They left the room, and while talking with
one another they said, this man is not

02:53:50.640 --> 02:53:52.840
doing anything that deserves death or
imprisonment.

02:53:52.920 --> 02:53:57.000
Agrippa said to Festus, this man could
have been set free if he had not appealed

02:53:57.000 --> 02:53:57.560
to Caesar.

02:53:59.340 --> 02:54:03.960
When it was decided that we would sail for
Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were

02:54:03.960 --> 02:54:09.020
handed over to a centurion named Julius,
who belonged to the imperial regiment.

02:54:09.820 --> 02:54:15.160
We boarded a ship from Andromitium,
about to sail for ports along the coast of

02:54:15.160 --> 02:54:18.240
the province of Asia, and we put out to
sea.

02:54:19.680 --> 02:54:22.940
Aristarchus, a Macedonian from
Thessalonica, was with us.

02:54:24.360 --> 02:54:30.580
The next day we landed at Sidon,
and Julius, in kindness to Paul,

02:54:31.300 --> 02:54:34.180
allowed him to go to his friends so they
might provide for his needs.

02:54:38.150 --> 02:54:45.950
From there, we put out to sea again and
passed to the lee of Cyprus, because the

02:54:45.950 --> 02:54:46.870
winds were against us.

02:54:47.590 --> 02:54:51.950
When we had sailed across the open sea off
the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia,

02:54:52.030 --> 02:54:54.290
we landed at Myra in Lycia.

02:54:54.930 --> 02:54:59.270
There, the centurion found an Alexandrian
ship sailing for Italy and put us on

02:54:59.270 --> 02:54:59.610
board.

02:55:00.510 --> 02:55:06.530
We made slow headway for many days and had
difficulty arriving off Snidus.

02:55:08.390 --> 02:55:12.210
When the wind did not allow us to hold our
course, we sailed to the lee of Crete,

02:55:12.630 --> 02:55:13.650
opposite Salmone.

02:55:14.650 --> 02:55:20.650
We moved along the coast with difficulty
and came to a place called Fair Havens,

02:55:20.810 --> 02:55:22.030
near the town of Lycia.

02:55:23.050 --> 02:55:27.190
Much time had been lost, and sailing had
already become dangerous, because by now

02:55:27.190 --> 02:55:28.330
it was after the fast.

02:55:29.070 --> 02:55:30.570
So Paul warned them.

02:55:30.810 --> 02:55:37.330
Men, I can see that our voyage is going to
be disastrous and bring great loss to ship

02:55:37.330 --> 02:55:40.350
and cargo, and to our own lives also.

02:55:41.310 --> 02:55:45.970
But the centurion, instead of listening to
what Paul said, followed the advice of the

02:55:45.970 --> 02:55:47.770
pilot and of the owner of the ship.

02:55:49.490 --> 02:55:53.990
Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter
in, the majority decided that we should

02:55:53.990 --> 02:55:57.190
sail on, hoping to reach Phoenix and
winter there.

02:55:58.030 --> 02:56:01.850
This was a harbor in Crete, facing both
southwest and northwest.

02:56:03.430 --> 02:56:07.730
When a gentle south wind began to blow,
they thought they had obtained what they

02:56:07.730 --> 02:56:11.590
wanted, so they weighed anchor and sailed
along the shore of Crete.

02:56:13.690 --> 02:56:18.510
Before very long, a wind of hurricane
force, called a northeaster, swept down

02:56:18.510 --> 02:56:19.170
from the island.

02:56:19.870 --> 02:56:24.150
The ship was caught by the storm and could
not head into the wind, so we gave way to

02:56:24.150 --> 02:56:25.350
it and were driven along.

02:56:25.890 --> 02:56:30.550
As we passed to the lee of a small island
called Choda, we were hardly able to make

02:56:30.550 --> 02:56:31.610
the lifeboat secure.

02:56:32.290 --> 02:56:36.310
When the men had hoisted it aboard,
they passed ropes under the ship itself to

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hold it together.

02:56:37.890 --> 02:56:41.750
Fearing that they would run aground on the
sandbars of Sirtis, they lowered the sea

02:56:41.750 --> 02:56:43.650
anchor and let the ship be driven along.

02:56:44.110 --> 02:56:48.170
We took such a violent battering from the
storm that the next day they began to

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throw the cargo overboard.

02:56:50.190 --> 02:56:54.090
On the third day, they threw the ship's
tackle overboard with their own hands.

02:56:59.520 --> 02:57:04.440
When neither sun nor stars appeared for
many days and the storm continued raging,

02:57:04.900 --> 02:57:07.620
we finally gave up all hope of being
saved.

02:57:09.060 --> 02:57:14.140
After the men had gone a long time without
food, Paul stood up before them and said,

02:57:14.560 --> 02:57:18.740
Men, you should have taken my advice not
to sail from Crete.

02:57:19.580 --> 02:57:23.020
Then you would have spared yourselves this
damage and loss.

02:57:25.700 --> 02:57:32.140
But now I urge you to keep up your courage
because not one of you will be lost.

02:57:33.140 --> 02:57:35.000
Only the ship will be destroyed.

02:57:36.700 --> 02:57:43.720
Last night, an angel of the God whose I am
and whom I serve stood beside me and said,

02:57:44.400 --> 02:57:46.400
Do not be afraid, Paul.

02:57:46.960 --> 02:57:49.920
You must stand trial before Caesar.

02:57:51.300 --> 02:57:56.380
And God has graciously given you the lives
of all who sail with you.

02:57:57.380 --> 02:58:05.180
So keep up your courage, men, for I have
faith in God that it will happen just as

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he told me.

02:58:07.340 --> 02:58:10.620
Nevertheless, we must run aground on some
island.

02:58:14.950 --> 02:58:20.050
On the fourteenth night, we were still
being driven across the Adriatic Sea,

02:58:20.470 --> 02:58:23.950
when about midnight the sailors sensed
they were approaching land.

02:58:24.770 --> 02:58:28.670
They took soundings and found that the
water was a hundred and twenty feet deep.

02:58:29.430 --> 02:58:32.950
A short time later, they took soundings
again and found it was ninety feet deep.

02:58:34.070 --> 02:58:37.810
Fearing that we would be dashed against
the rocks, they dropped four anchors from

02:58:37.810 --> 02:58:39.430
the stern and prayed for daylight.

02:58:41.770 --> 02:58:46.210
In an attempt to escape from the ship,
the sailors let the lifeboat down into the

02:58:46.210 --> 02:58:49.290
sea, pretending they were going to lure
some anchors from the bow.

02:58:50.350 --> 02:59:03.630
Then Paul said to the

02:59:07.630 --> 02:59:11.110
sailors, cut the ropes that held the
lifeboat and let it fall away.

02:59:31.860 --> 02:59:34.920
Thus, before dawn, Paul urged them all to
eat.

02:59:40.370 --> 02:59:47.170
For the last fourteen days, he said,
you have been in constant suspense and

02:59:47.170 --> 02:59:48.450
have gone without food.

02:59:48.610 --> 02:59:49.890
You haven't eaten anything.

02:59:51.770 --> 02:59:55.270
Now, I urge you to take some food.

02:59:56.670 --> 02:59:58.390
You need it to survive.

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Not one of you will lose a single hair
from his head.

03:00:04.510 --> 03:00:08.810
After he said this, he took some bread and
gave thanks to God in front of them all.

03:00:09.350 --> 03:00:11.090
Then he broke it and began to eat.

03:00:13.670 --> 03:00:16.510
They were all encouraged and ate some food
themselves.

03:00:17.990 --> 03:00:20.870
Altogether, there were two hundred and
seventy-six of us on board.

03:00:23.570 --> 03:00:27.010
When they had eaten as much as they
wanted, they lightened the ship by

03:00:27.010 --> 03:00:28.670
throwing the grain into the sea.

03:00:32.560 --> 03:00:37.060
When daylight came, they did not recognize
the land, but they saw a bay with a sandy

03:00:37.060 --> 03:00:40.140
beach, where they decided to run the ship
aground if they could.

03:00:40.720 --> 03:00:44.720
Cutting loose the anchors, they left them
in the sea and at the same time untied the

03:00:44.720 --> 03:00:45.880
ropes that held the runners.

03:00:46.180 --> 03:00:49.040
Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind
and made for the beach.

03:00:49.460 --> 03:00:51.640
But the ship struck a sandbar and ran
aground.

03:00:52.080 --> 03:00:56.080
The bow stuck fast and was not moving,
and the stern was broken to pieces by the

03:00:56.080 --> 03:00:57.120
pounding of the surf.

03:00:57.720 --> 03:01:01.140
The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners
to prevent any of them from swimming away

03:01:01.140 --> 03:01:01.740
and escaping.

03:01:08.350 --> 03:01:12.470
But the centurion wanted to spare Paul's
life and kept them from carrying out their

03:01:12.470 --> 03:01:12.890
plan.

03:01:14.370 --> 03:01:17.950
He ordered those who could swim to jump
overboard first and get to land.

03:01:17.950 --> 03:01:21.030
The rest were to get their own planks or
on pieces of the ship.

03:01:22.450 --> 03:01:25.610
In this way, everyone reached land in
safety.

03:01:28.790 --> 03:01:33.410
Once safely on shore, we found out that
the island was called Malta.

03:01:34.250 --> 03:01:36.530
The islanders showed us unusual kindness.

03:01:37.470 --> 03:01:41.250
They built a fire and welcomed us all
because it was raining and cold.

03:01:42.990 --> 03:01:47.330
Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and,
as he put it on the fire, a viper,

03:01:47.590 --> 03:01:50.630
driven out by the heat, fastened itself on
his hand.

03:01:51.370 --> 03:01:53.750
The islanders saw the snake hanging from
his hand.

03:01:53.850 --> 03:01:55.970
They said to each other, this man must be
a murderer.

03:01:57.350 --> 03:02:02.690
For though he escaped from the sea,
justice has not allowed him to live.

03:02:03.350 --> 03:02:06.910
But Paul shook the snake off into the fire
and suffered no ill effects.

03:02:16.510 --> 03:02:20.230
The people expected him to swell up or
suddenly fall dead.

03:02:21.030 --> 03:02:24.870
But after waiting a long time and seeing
nothing unusual happen to him,

03:02:24.970 --> 03:02:27.470
they changed their minds and said he was a
god.

03:02:30.750 --> 03:02:35.090
There was an estate nearby that belonged
to Publius, the chief official of the

03:02:35.090 --> 03:02:35.370
island.

03:02:36.410 --> 03:02:40.570
He welcomed us to his home and for three
days entertained us hospitably.

03:02:43.290 --> 03:02:47.250
His father was sick in bed, suffering from
fever and dysentery.

03:02:51.040 --> 03:02:56.820
Paul went in to see him and, after prayer,
placed his hands on him and healed him.

03:03:16.050 --> 03:03:19.970
When this had happened, the rest of the
sick on the island came and were cured.

03:03:20.690 --> 03:03:22.490
They honored us in many ways.

03:03:23.270 --> 03:03:26.630
And when we were ready to sail,
they furnished us with the supplies we

03:03:26.630 --> 03:03:26.890
needed.

03:03:28.050 --> 03:03:33.090
After three months, we put out to sea in a
ship that had wintered in the island.

03:03:33.970 --> 03:03:39.470
It was an Alexandrian ship with the
figurehead of the twin gods, Castor and

03:03:39.470 --> 03:03:39.950
Pollux.

03:03:40.710 --> 03:03:44.490
We put in at Syracuse and stayed there
three days.

03:03:45.750 --> 03:03:48.070
From there we set sail and arrived at
Regium.

03:03:49.090 --> 03:03:53.090
The next day the south wind came up and on
the following day we reached Puteoli.

03:03:54.890 --> 03:03:58.350
There we found some brothers who invited
us to spend a week with them.

03:03:59.970 --> 03:04:01.570
And so we came to Rome.

03:04:05.050 --> 03:04:08.590
The brothers there had heard that we were
coming and they traveled as far as the

03:04:08.590 --> 03:04:11.150
Forum of Appius and the three taverns to
meet us.

03:04:11.950 --> 03:04:15.030
At the sight of these men, Paul thanked
God and was encouraged.

03:04:16.770 --> 03:04:21.090
When we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to
live by himself with a soldier to guard

03:04:21.090 --> 03:04:21.310
him.

03:04:22.790 --> 03:04:26.110
Three days later, he called together the
leaders of the Jews.

03:04:35.460 --> 03:04:42.040
When they had assembled, Paul said to
them, My brothers, although I have done

03:04:42.040 --> 03:04:48.340
nothing against our people or against the
customs of our ancestors, I was arrested

03:04:48.340 --> 03:04:51.340
in Jerusalem and handed over to the
Romans.

03:04:52.080 --> 03:04:57.680
They examined me and wanted to release me
because I was not guilty of any crime

03:04:57.680 --> 03:04:58.920
deserving death.

03:05:00.460 --> 03:05:04.460
But when the Jews objected, I was
compelled to appeal to Caesar,

03:05:04.820 --> 03:05:08.700
not that I had any charge to bring against
my own people.

03:05:09.060 --> 03:05:12.800
For this reason, I have asked to see you
and talk with you.

03:05:13.680 --> 03:05:18.860
It is because of the hope of Israel that I
am bound with this chain.

03:05:27.010 --> 03:05:32.770
They replied, We have not received any
letters from Judea concerning you,

03:05:33.410 --> 03:05:38.730
and none of the brothers who have come
from there has reported or said anything

03:05:38.730 --> 03:05:40.070
bad about you.

03:05:40.430 --> 03:05:47.270
But we want to hear what your views are,
for we know that people everywhere are

03:05:47.270 --> 03:05:48.870
talking against this sect.

03:05:50.030 --> 03:05:54.670
They arranged to meet Paul on a certain
day and came in even larger numbers to the

03:05:54.670 --> 03:05:55.710
place where he was staying.

03:05:56.690 --> 03:06:01.110
From morning till evening, he explained
and declared to them the kingdom of God

03:06:01.110 --> 03:06:04.950
and tried to convince them about Jesus
from the law of Moses and from the

03:06:04.950 --> 03:06:05.290
prophets.

03:06:06.190 --> 03:06:10.230
Some were convinced by what he said,
but others would not believe.

03:06:11.210 --> 03:06:15.430
They disagreed among themselves and began
to leave after Paul had made his final

03:06:15.430 --> 03:06:15.870
statement.

03:06:17.030 --> 03:06:22.090
The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your
forefathers when he said through Isaiah

03:06:22.090 --> 03:06:29.090
the prophet, Go to this people and say,
You will be ever hearing, but never

03:06:29.090 --> 03:06:29.750
understanding.

03:06:30.390 --> 03:06:33.670
You will be ever seeing, but never
perceiving.

03:06:34.570 --> 03:06:37.570
For this people's heart has become
calloused.

03:06:38.090 --> 03:06:42.670
They hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.

03:06:43.450 --> 03:06:49.410
Otherwise, they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears, understand with

03:06:49.410 --> 03:06:52.570
their hearts, and turn, and I would heal
them.

03:06:56.410 --> 03:07:01.970
Therefore, I want you to know that God's
salvation

03:07:05.380 --> 03:07:07.600
has been sent to the Gentiles,

03:07:14.280 --> 03:07:15.660
and they will listen.

03:07:31.980 --> 03:07:37.320
For two whole years, Paul stayed there in
his own rented house and welcomed all who

03:07:37.320 --> 03:07:38.100
came to see him.

03:07:58.610 --> 03:08:03.470
Boldly and without hindrance, he preached
the kingdom of God and taught about the

03:08:03.470 --> 03:08:04.570
Lord Jesus Christ.

03:08:05.130 --> 03:08:05.610
Ah!

03:09:08.430 --> 03:09:09.190
Doctor,

03:09:12.580 --> 03:09:13.820
go in peace.

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Grace and peace to you, Captain.