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After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.

both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs-we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!"

'In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!"

This promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are far off, to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself."

praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.

When all the people saw him walking and praising God,

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.

But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.

For Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.

And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers, when He said to Abraham, 'Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.'