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Acts 13

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Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was [there], prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

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Then, having fasted and prayed, and having laid [their] hands on them, they let [them] go.

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They therefore, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed away to Cyprus.

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And being in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also as [their] attendant.

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And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus,

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who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. *He*, having called Barnabas and Saul to [him], desired to hear the word of God.

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But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

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But Saul, who also [is] Paul, filled with [the] Holy Spirit, fixing his eyes upon him,

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said, O full of all deceit and all craft: son of [the] devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease perverting the right paths of [the] Lord?

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And now behold, [the] Lord's hand [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand.

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Then the proconsul, seeing what had happened, believed, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.

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And having sailed from Paphos, Paul and his company came to Perga of Pamphylia; and John separated from them and returned to Jerusalem.

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But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day they sat down.

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And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.

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And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.

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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in [the] land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,

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and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.

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And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

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And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty years.

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And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.

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And having removed him he raised up to them David for king, of whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my will.

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Of this man's seed according to promise has God brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

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John having proclaimed before the face of his entry [among the people] [the] baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

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And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye suppose that I am? *I* am not [he]. But behold, there comes one after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

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Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you fear God, to you has the word of this salvation been sent:

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for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, [by] judging [him].

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And having found no cause of death [in him], they begged of Pilate that he might be slain.

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And when they had fulfilled all things written concerning him, they took him down from the cross and put him in a sepulchre;

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but God raised him from among [the] dead,

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who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

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And *we* declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers,

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that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm, *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee.

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But that he raised him from among [the] dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David.

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Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer thy gracious one to see corruption.

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For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.

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But he whom God raised up did not see corruption.

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Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,

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and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is justified.

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See therefore that that which is spoken in the prophets do not come upon [you],

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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for *I* work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if one declare it to you.

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And as they went out they begged that these words might be spoken to them the ensuing sabbath.

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And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

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

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But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, [contradicting and] speaking injuriously.

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And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;

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for thus has the Lord enjoined us: I have set thee for a light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

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And [those of] the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were ordained to eternal life.

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And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole country.

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But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.

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But they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

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And the disciples were filled with joy and [the] Holy Spirit.

Acts 14

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And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.

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But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of [those of] the nations and made [them] evil-affected against the brethren.

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They stayed therefore a good while, speaking boldly, [confiding] in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

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And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews and some with the apostles.

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And when an assault was making, both of [those of] the nations and [the] Jews with their rulers, to use [them] ill and stone them,

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they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,

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and there they were announcing the glad tidings.

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And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat, [being] lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.

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This [man] heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

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said with a loud voice, Rise up straight upon thy feet: and he sprang up and walked.

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But the crowds, who saw what Paul had done, lifted up their voices in Lycaonian, saying, The gods, having made themselves like men, are come down to us.

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And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercury, because he took the lead in speaking.

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And the priest of Jupiter who was before the city, having brought bulls and garlands to the gates, would have done sacrifice along with the crowds.

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But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having heard [it], rent their garments, and rushed out to the crowd, crying

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and saying, Men, why do ye these things? *We* also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

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who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,

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though indeed he did not leave himself without witness, doing good, and giving to you from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

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And saying these things, they with difficulty kept the crowds from sacrificing to them.

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But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.

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But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

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And having announced the glad tidings to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,

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establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

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And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

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And having passed through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia,

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and having spoken the word in Perga, they came down to Attalia;

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and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

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And having arrived, and having brought together the assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

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And they stayed no little time with the disciples.

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