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Motioning to them with his hand to be quiet, he told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison and said, “Tell all this to Ya‘akov and the brothers.” Then he left and went elsewhere.

At once, because Herod did not give the glory to God, an angel of Adonai struck him down. He was eaten away by worms and died.

One time when they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Ruach HaKodesh said to them, “Set aside for me Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul for the work to which I have called them.”

“You son of Satan, full of fraud and evil! You enemy of everything good! Won’t you ever stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

So now, look! The hand of the Lord is upon you; and for a while you will be blind, unable to see the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over Elymas; and he groped about, trying to find someone to lead him by the hand.

Then, on seeing what had happened, the governor trusted, astounded by the teaching about the Lord.

For some forty years he took care of them in the desert,

and after he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Kena‘an he gave their land to his people as an inheritance.

All this took about 450 years. After that, he gave them judges, down to the prophet Sh’mu’el.

God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, ‘I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want.’

“In keeping with his promise, God has brought to Isra’el from this man’s descendants a deliverer, Yeshua.

Now before the coming of Yeshua, Yochanan proclaimed to all the people of Isra’el an immersion in connection with turning to God from sin.

But as Yochanan was ending his work, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? Well — I’m not! But after me is coming someone, the sandals of whose feet I am unworthy to untie.’

For the people living in Yerushalayim and their leaders did not recognize who Yeshua was or understand the message of the Prophets read every Shabbat, so they fulfilled that message by condemning him.

They could not find any legitimate ground for a death sentence; nevertheless they asked Pilate to have him executed;

and when they had carried out all the things written about him, he was taken down from the stake and placed in a tomb.

“But God raised him from the dead!

He appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim; and they are now his witnesses to the people.

he has fulfilled for us the children in raising up Yeshua, as indeed it is written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’

And as for his raising him up from the dead, to return to decay no more, he said, ‘I will give the holy and trustworthy things of David to you.’

This is explained elsewhere: ‘You will not let your Holy One see decay.’

However, the one God raised up did not see decay.

“Therefore, brothers, let it be known to you that through this man is proclaimed forgiveness of sins!

That is, God clears everyone who puts his trust in this man, even in regard to all the things concerning which you could not be cleared by the Torah of Moshe.

For that is what Adonai has ordered us to do: ‘I have set you as a light for the Goyim, to be for deliverance to the ends of the earth.’ ”