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This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.'

But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you present Me with slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rompha, the images which you made to worship. I also will remove you beyond Babylon.'

And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.

David found favor in the sight of God, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;

and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, "This man is what is called the Great Power of God."

But when they believed Philip proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, both men and women.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John,

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

You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

[And Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."]

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."

a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the people and prayed to God continually.

About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God who had come in and said to him, "Cornelius!"

And looking intently on him and becoming afraid, he said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider defiled."

And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and hear a message from you."

And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man defiled or unclean.