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When he appeared the next day, as they were fighting, and tried to make peace between them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers! Why do you want to hurt each other?'

"This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?' is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.

"But our fathers did not want to obey him. On the contrary, they rejected him and in their hearts turned to Egypt,

That was when they made an idol in the shape of a calf and offered a sacrifice to it and held a celebration in honor of what they had made with their own hands.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who told in advance about the coming of the Tzaddik, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers! —

On hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts and ground their teeth at him.

At this, they began yelling at the top of their voices, so that they wouldn't have to hear him; and with one accord, they rushed at him,

and the crowds were paying close attention to what Philip said, as they heard and saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

But when they came to believe Philip, as he announced the Good News concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Yeshua the Messiah, they were immersed, both men and women.

When the emissaries in Yerushalayim heard that Shomron had received the Word of God, they sent them Kefa and Yochanan,

who came down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Ruach HaKodesh.

Then, as Kefa and Yochanan placed their hands on them, they received the Ruach HaKodesh.

As they were going down the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look! Here's some water! Is there any reason why I shouldn't be immersed?"

All who heard him were amazed. They asked, "Isn't he the man who in Yerushalayim was trying to destroy the people who call on this name? In fact, isn't that why he came here, to arrest them and bring them back to the head cohanim?"

but their plot became known to Sha'ul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to do away with him;

He talked and debated with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they began making attempts to kill him.

When the brothers learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

Then the Messianic community throughout Y'hudah, the Galil and Shomron enjoyed peace and was built up. They lived in the fear of the Lord, with the counsel of the Ruach HaKodesh; and their numbers kept multiplying.

Everyone living in Lud and the Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. Now in Yafo there was a talmidah named Tavita

It happened that just at that time, she took sick and died. After washing her, they laid her in a room upstairs.