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And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.

Of this man’s seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour Jesus:

Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God: to you the word of this salvation is sent.

But God raised him up from the dead the third day.

This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

But he whom God hath raised from the dead saw no corruption.

And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews and of the strangers who served God followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together, to hear the word of God.

Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.

(14-14) And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them:

(14-21) Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

(14-25) And thence they sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been delivered to the grace of God, unto the work which they accomplished.

(14-26) And when they were come and had assembled the church, they related what great things God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and by the apostles and ancients, declaring how great things God had done with them.

And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to them: Men, brethren, you know that in former days God made choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as to us:

Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

And all the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas and Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.