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But now the people believed Philip's message of Good News concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. As a result, many men and women were baptized.

But Peter replied, "May your money be destroyed with you for thinking God's gift can be bought!

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing.

The men with Saul stood speechless, for they heard the sound of someone's voice but saw no one!

Saul picked himself up off the ground, but when he opened his eyes he was blind. So his companions led him by the hand to Damascus.

"But Lord," exclaimed Ananias, "I've heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers in Jerusalem!

But the Lord said, "Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.

They were watching for him day and night at the city gate so they could murder him, but Saul was told about their plot.

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to meet with the believers, but they were all afraid of him. They did not believe he had truly become a believer!

He debated with some Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to murder him.

But the believers had heard that Peter was nearby at Lydda, so they sent two men to beg him, "Please come as soon as possible!"

But Peter asked them all to leave the room; then he knelt and prayed. Turning to the body he said, "Get up, Tabitha." And she opened her eyes! When she saw Peter, she sat up!

and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

But the voice spoke again: "Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean."

But Peter pulled him up and said, "Stand up! I'm a human being just like you!"

Peter told them, "You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean.

but God raised him to life on the third day. Then God allowed him to appear,

not to the general public, but to us whom God had chosen in advance to be his witnesses. We were those who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, the Jewish believers criticized him.

"But the voice from heaven spoke again: ‘Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.'