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But opposition arose from members of the Synagogue of the Freed Slaves (as it was called), composed of Cyrenians, Alexandrians and people from Cilicia and the province of Asia. They argued with Stephen,

but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by which he spoke.

But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,' God said, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.'

"Now the Patriarchs grew jealous of Yosef and sold him into slavery in Egypt . But Adonai was with him;

But when Ya‘akov heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

"But when he was forty years old, the thought came to him to visit his brothers, the people of Isra'el.

He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov.' But Moshe trembled with fear and didn't dare to look.

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

But Ha‘Elyon does not live in places made by hand! As the prophet says,

you! — who receive the Torah as having been delivered by angels — but do not keep it!"

But he, full of the Ruach HaKodesh, looked up to heaven and saw God's Sh'khinah, with Yeshua standing at the right hand of God .

and Sha'ul gave his approval to his murder. Starting with that day, there arose intense persecution against the Messianic Community in Yerushalayim; all but the emissaries were scattered throughout the regions of Y'hudah and Shomron.

But Sha'ul set out to destroy the Messianic Community — entering house after house, he dragged off both men and women and handed them over to be put in prison.

But there was a man named Shim‘on in the city who for some time had been practicing magic and astonishing the nation of Shomron, claiming to be somebody great.

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.

But Kefa said to him, "Your silver go to ruin — and you with it, for thinking the free gift of God can be bought!

But Philip showed up at Ashdod and continued proclaiming the Good News as he went through all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

But get up, and go into the city, and you will be told what you have to do."

The men traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.