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and rescued him from all his troubles. And God gave him favor before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. God also gave Joseph unusual wisdom, so that Pharaoh appointed him governor over all of Egypt and put him in charge of the palace.

Jacob heard that there was still grain in Egypt, so he sent his sons—our ancestors—to buy some.

So Jacob went to Egypt. He died there, as did our ancestors.

This king exploited our people and oppressed them, forcing parents to abandon their newborn babies so they would die.

He saw an Egyptian mistreating an Israelite. So Moses came to the man's defense and avenged him, killing the Egyptian.

"So God sent back the same man his people had previously rejected when they demanded, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?' Through the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush, God sent Moses to be their ruler and savior.

So they made an idol shaped like a calf, and they sacrificed to it and celebrated over this thing they had made.

No, you carried your pagan gods— the shrine of Molech, the star of your god Rephan, and the images you made to worship them. So I will send you into exile as far away as Babylon.'

"You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That's what your ancestors did, and so do you!

So there was great joy in that city.

"Let me have this power, too," he exclaimed, "so that when I lay my hands on people, they will receive the Holy Spirit!"

So he started out, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the Kandake, the queen of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

So beginning with this same Scripture, Philip told him the Good News about Jesus.

Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord's followers. So he went to the high priest.

Saul picked himself up off the ground, but when he opened his eyes he was blind. So his companions led him by the hand to Damascus.

I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias coming in and laying hands on him so he can see again."

So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

They were watching for him day and night at the city gate so they could murder him, but Saul was told about their plot.

So during the night, some of the other believers lowered him in a large basket through an opening in the city wall.

So Saul stayed with the apostles and went all around Jerusalem with them, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.