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And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,

and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou--declare not thou common.

if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I--how was I able to withstand God?'

And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,

Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,

and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John as a ministrant;

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,

And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, `Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken:

the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it;

and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;

and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.

`Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour--Jesus,

`Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,

and God did raise him out of the dead,

God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee.

`And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus--I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David;

wherefore also in another place he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption,

for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,

but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.

See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I--I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare it to you.'

and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.

And on the coming sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God,