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whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Because you will not leave my soul in Hades, Neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

saying, "What will we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.

They, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a grumbling of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

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

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

Now Herod was highly displeased with those of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king's chamberlain, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms, and he died.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," because he was the chief speaker.

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

Paul wanted to have him go forth with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign demons," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.