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they shall expel you out of the synagogues: yea, the time is coming, when it will be thought an agreeable sacrifice to God for any one to take away your lives.

for the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I had my mission from God.

now we are convinc'd that you know all our difficulties, and have no occasion that any man should propose them to you: by this we believe that you were sent from God.

and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.

the Jews answered him, we have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he pretended to be the son of God.

that is to say, master! Jesus said to her, touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, "I ascend unto my father and your father, even my God and your God."

Thomas answered, and said to him, my Lord and my God!

but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Messias, the son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.

this he said to signify to Peter by what death he should glorify God. and when he had spoken this, he said to him, follow me.

Cretes, and Arabians, we hear them all proclaiming in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

"it shall come to pass in the last days (saith God) I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men dream dreams:

ye men of Israel attend to what I say; Jesus of Nazareth was a man whom God distinguished among you, by miracles, by prodigies, and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you your selves also know:

him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by means of the wicked, have crucified and slain: whom God hath raised up,

that, as he was a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him , to place the fruit of his loins upon his throne: foreseeing this,

'tis this Jesus whom God hath raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the father the promise of the holy spirit, he has diffused that spirit, the effects of which ye now see and hear.

therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

praising God, and showing benevolence to all the people. and the Lord encreased the church daily with new converts.

so that he fell a leaping, and walking, and entred with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.