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And the apostles and brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?

Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto life.

Who, when he was come and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord.

Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him.

And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

But the word of the Lord increased and multiplied.

And when they were come to Salamina, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also in the ministry.

Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He, sending for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God.

Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: Ye men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear.

The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence:

And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.

And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.

Of this man's seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour Jesus:

Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God: to you the word of this salvation is sent.

But God raised him up from the dead the third day.

This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful.

And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

But he whom God hath raised from the dead saw no corruption.

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews and of the strangers who served God followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together, to hear the word of God.