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But Kefa said to him, "Your silver go to ruin — and you with it, for thinking the free gift of God can be bought!

So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps you will yet be forgiven for holding such a thought in your heart.

For I see that you are extremely bitter and completely under the control of sin!"

Shim‘on answered, "Pray to the Lord for me, so that none of the things you have spoken about will happen to me."

and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Dammesek, authorizing him to arrest any people he might find, whether men or women, who belonged to "the Way," and bring them back to Yerushalayim.

For three days he remained unable to see, and he neither ate nor drank.

The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to Straight Street, to Y'hudah's house; and ask for a man from Tarsus named Sha'ul; for he is praying,

For I myself will show him how much he will have to suffer on account of my name."

There he found a man named Aeneas who had lain bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

Kefa stayed on in Yafo for some time with a man named Shim‘on, a leather-tanner.

Kefa was still puzzling over the meaning of the vision he had seen, when the men Cornelius had sent, having inquired for Shim‘on's house, stood at the gate

While Kefa's mind was still on the vision, the Spirit said, "Three men are looking for you.

So Kefa went down and said to the men, "You were looking for me? Here I am. What brings you here?"

He said to them, "You are well aware that for a man who is a Jew to have close association with someone who belongs to another people, or to come and visit him, is something that just isn't done. But God has shown me not to call any person common or unclean;

so when I was summoned, I came without raising any questions. Tell me, then, why did you send for me?"

Now send to Yafo and ask for Shim‘on, known as Kefa; he is staying in the house of Shim‘on, a leather-tanner, by the sea.'

So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now all of us are here in the presence of God to hear everything the Lord has ordered you to say."

"As for us, we are witnesses of everything he did, both in the Judean countryside and in Yerushalayim. They did away with him by hanging him on a stake ;

on the Goyim, for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Kefa's response was,

And he ordered that they be immersed in the name of Yeshua the Messiah. Then they asked Kefa to stay on with them for a few days.