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And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.

Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.

And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;

and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will *I* judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,

But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

*I* am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider [it].

This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send [to be] a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me [him shall ye hear].

But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your] god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face of our fathers, until the days of David;

who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;

But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

To whom they had all given heed, from small to great, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.

But when they believed Philip announcing the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women.

And the apostles who were in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;