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And all the multitude did keep silence, and were hearkening to Barnabas and Paul, declaring as many signs and wonders as God did among the nations through them;

Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,

`Known from the ages to God are all His works;

wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

and Paul having chosen Silas, went forth, having been given up to the grace of God by the brethren;

and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;

she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;'

And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

having brought them also into his house, he set food before [them], and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.

And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes;

for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

`Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue,

and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

saying -- `Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;'

but took leave of them, saying, `It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you -- God willing.' And he sailed from Ephesus,

this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to [them], and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,