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But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is my chosen instrument

But Saul grew stronger and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.

but Saul learned of their plot. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,

but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a large basket through an opening in the wall.

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple.

He conversed and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they tried to kill him.

He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing something, he fell into a trance.

But Peter lifted him up and said, “Stand up. I myself am also a man.”

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner, but God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean.

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

not by all the people, but by us whom God appointed as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call impure.’

I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.

So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what the angel did was really happening, but he thought he was seeing a vision.

She recognized Peter’s voice, and because of her joy, she did not open the gate but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the outer gate.

“You’re out of your mind!” they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true, and they said, “It’s his angel.”

But the word of God flourished and multiplied.

But Elymas the sorcerer (that is the meaning of his name) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.