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Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

But other believers, who were from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and proclaimed the message to Gentiles also, telling them the Good News about the Lord Jesus.

So Peter was kept in jail, but the people of the church were praying earnestly to God for him.

"You are crazy!" they told her. But she insisted that it was true. So they answered, "It is his angel."

Herod gave orders to search for him, but they could not find him. So he had the guards questioned and ordered them put to death. After this, Herod left Judea and spent some time in Caesarea.

"It isn't a man speaking, but a god!" they shouted.

But they were opposed by the magician Elymas (that is his name in Greek), who tried to turn the governor away from the faith.

And as John was about to finish his mission, he said to the people, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the one you are waiting for. But listen! He is coming after me, and I am not good enough to take his sandals off his feet.'

But God raised him from death,

But this did not happen to the one whom God raised from death.

But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.

But the Jews stirred up the leading men of the city and the Gentile women of high social standing who worshiped God. They started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their region.

But the Jews who would not believe stirred up the Gentiles and turned them against the believers.

But he has always given evidence of his existence by the good things he does: he gives you rain from heaven and crops at the right times; he gives you food and fills your hearts with happiness."

But when the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day he and Barnabas went to Derbe.

But some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses."

but Paul did not think it was right to take him, because he had not stayed with them to the end of their mission, but had turned back and left them in Pamphylia.

Paul traveled on to Derbe and Lystra, where a Christian named Timothy lived. His mother, who was also a Christian, was Jewish, but his father was a Greek.

When they reached the border of Mysia, they tried to go into the province of Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

But Paul shouted at the top of his voice, "Don't harm yourself We are all here!"