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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 were shouting, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

But the word of God increased and multiplied.

When they arrived at Salamis, 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 who 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 offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.

"Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who 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 purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.

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

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

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we 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.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.