Study Desk

So Kefa was being held under watch in prison, but intense prayer was being made to God on his behalf by the Messianic community.

The mob cried out, "This is the voice of a god, not a man!"

At once, because Herod did not give the glory to God, an angel of Adonai struck him down. He was eaten away by worms and died.

After landing in Salamis, they began proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues, with Yochanan (Mark) as an assistant;

He had attached himself to the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. Now the governor had called for Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul and was anxious to hear the message about God;

So Sha'ul stood, motioned with his hand, and said: "Men of Isra'el and God-fearers, listen!

The God of this people Isra'el chose our fathers. He made the people great during the time when they were living as aliens in Egypt and with a stretched-out arm he led them out of that land .

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Sha'ul Ben-Kish, a man from the tribe of Binyamin. After forty years,

God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, ‘ I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart ; he will do everything I want.'

"In keeping with his promise, God has brought to Isra'el from this man's descendants a deliverer, Yeshua.

Now before the coming of Yeshua, Yochanan proclaimed to all the people of Isra'el an immersion in connection with turning to God from sin.

"Brothers! — sons of Avraham and those among you who are ‘God-fearers'! It is to us that the message of this deliverance has been sent!

"But God raised him from the dead!

"As for us, we are bringing you the Good News that what God promised to the fathers,

However, the one God raised up did not see decay .

That is, God clears everyone who puts his trust in this man, even in regard to all the things concerning which you could not be cleared by the Torah of Moshe.

When the synagogue meeting broke up, many of the born Jews and devout proselytes followed Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba, who spoke with them and urged them to keep holding fast to the love and kindness of God.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the women ‘God-fearers' of high social standing and the leading men of the city, and they organized persecution against Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba and expelled them from their district.

"Men! Why are you doing this? We're just men, human like you! We are announcing Good News to you — turn from these worthless things to the living God who made heaven and earth and the sea and everything in them!

strengthening the talmidim, encouraging them to remain true to the faith, and reminding them that it is through many hardships that we must enter the Kingdom of God.