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Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us."

So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying, "So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles."

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught a significant number of people. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

So the disciples, each in accordance with his financial ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

They did so, sending their financial aid to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.

The angel said to him, "Fasten your belt and put on your sandals." Peter did so. Then the angel said to him, "Put on your cloak and follow me."

When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she did not open the gate, but ran back in and told them that Peter was standing at the gate.

Now Herod was having an angry quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they joined together and presented themselves before him. And after convincing Blastus, the king's personal assistant, to help them, they asked for peace, because their country's food supply was provided by the king's country.

So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had completed their mission, bringing along with them John Mark.

So Barnabas and Saul, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

So Paul stood up, gestured with his hand and said, "Men of Israel, and you Gentiles who fear God, listen:

So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region.

So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"

"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

So they spent considerable time with the disciples.