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But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, ‘The things which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!'

So he departed for Tarsus to look for Saul.

And when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it happened to them also that they met together for a whole year with the church and taught a large number of people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

So from the disciples, according to their ability to give, each one of them determined to send financial aid for support to the brothers who lived in Judea,

After he had arrested him, he also put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

Thus Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer was fervently being made to God by the church for him.

And after they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened for them by itself, and they went out and went forward along one narrow street, and at once the angel departed from him.

And when Herod had searched for him and did not find him, he questioned the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. And he came down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

Now he was very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians. So they came to him with one purpose, and after persuading Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country was supported with food from the king's country.

And while they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart now for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

But Elymas the magician (for his name is translated in this way) opposed them, attempting to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

And now behold, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a while. And immediately mist and darkness fell over him, and he was going around looking for people to lead him by the hand.

So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, "Men and brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you for the people, say it."

And for a period of time of about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness.

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

And after removing him, he raised up David for their king, about whom he also said, testifying, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man in accordance with my heart, who will carry out all my will.'

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize this one, and the voices of the prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

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.

For David, after serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was buried with his fathers, and experienced decay.

‘Look, you scoffers, and be astonished and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you would never believe even if someone were to tell it to you.'"