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For they heard them speak with other languages and magnify God. Then Peter answered,

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you make unholy.'

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would remain near to the Lord.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms, and he died.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They had also John as their attendant.

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. The same called Barnabas and Saul to him, and sought to hear the word of God.

Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them forth out of it.

Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

From this man's seed, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent forth to you.

But God raised him from the dead,

that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.