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So Peter was kept in prison; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

And the people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of man!"

Immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was eaten by worms and died.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

When they arrived at Sal'amis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: "Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

Then they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

Of this man's posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.

"Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

But God raised him from the dead;

And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,

For David, after he had served the counsel of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;

but he whom God raised up saw no corruption.

And when the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

The next sabbath almost the whole city gathered together to hear the word of God.

And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God; and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

"Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.