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That God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.

Him God raised the third day, and showed him openly;

Not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, [even] to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained by God [to be] the Judge of the living and the dead.

For they heard them speak in languages and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

And the apostles and brethren that were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.

Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as [he did] to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, what was I that I could withstand God?

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance to life.

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave to the Lord.

Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing by the church to God for him.

And the people gave a shout, [saying], [It is] the voice of a god, and not of a man.

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten by worms, and died.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had also John for [their] minister.

Who was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.

And afterward they desired a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

Of this man's offspring hath God, according to [his] promise, raised up to Israel a Savior, Jesus: