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The eunuch answered Philip and said, "Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself, or of someone else?"

As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?"

and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

And he said to them, "You yourselves know that it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner; and yet God has shown me that I am not to call any person unholy or unclean.

"That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask, for what reason did you send for me?"

Cornelius said, "Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining clothing,

"I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; kill and eat.'

"And behold, at that moment three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea came up to the house where we were staying.

"And the Spirit told me to go with them without misgivings. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house.

And the angel said to him, "Put on your belt and strap on your sandals." And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me."

When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."

While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for Me for the work to which I have called them."

"And while John was completing his course, he kept saying, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, One is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

After they stopped speaking, James responded, saying, "Brothers, listen to me.

Now when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of some crime or vicious, unscrupulous act, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

"And now, behold, bound by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and afflictions await me.