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This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? God has sent him [to be] both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

This is that Moses, who said to the sons of Israel, God shall raise up to you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

And you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of your god Rephan, The figures which you made to worship them: And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God thrust out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David;

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the house of Jacob.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

and said, Look, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is called Great.

But when they believed Philip preaching good tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

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

But Peter said to him, Your silver perish with you, because you have thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

You have neither part nor lot in this matter: for your heart is not right before God.

And immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, He is the Son of God.

a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.

He saw in a vision openly, as it were about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.

And he, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms have gone up for a memorial before God.

And a voice [came] to him again the second time, What God has cleansed, don't make common.

And they said, Captain Cornelius, a righteous man and one that fears God, and well reported of by all the nation of the Jews, was warned [of God] by a holy angel to send for you into his house, and to hear words from you.

and he said to them, You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation; and [yet] to me has God shown that I should not call any man common or unclean: