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Herod saw that some of the people liked this, so he decided to arrest Peter, too. (This happened during the time of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.)

So Peter was kept in jail, but the church prayed earnestly to God for him.

So Peter followed him out, but he did not know if what the angel was doing was real; he thought he might be seeing a vision.

When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so happy she forgot to open the door. Instead, she ran inside and told the group, "Peter is at the door!"

They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she kept on saying it was true, so they said, "It must be Peter's angel."

Herod looked everywhere for him but could not find him. So he questioned the guards and ordered that they be killed. Later Herod moved from Judea and went to the city of Caesarea, where he stayed.

So after they fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on Barnabas and Saul and sent them out.

Then the people asked for a king, so God gave them Saul son of Kish. Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin and was king for forty years.

So God has brought Jesus, one of David's descendants, to Israel to be its Savior, as he promised.

God raised Jesus from the dead, and he will never go back to the grave and become dust. So God said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings that I promised to David.' Isaiah 55:3

But Paul and Barnabas spoke very boldly, saying, "We must speak the message of God to you first. But you refuse to listen. You are judging yourselves not worthy of having eternal life! So we will now go to the people of other nations.

So the message of the Lord was spreading through the whole country.

So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet and went to Iconium.

In Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual to the synagogue. They spoke so well that a great many Jews and Greeks believed.

So he cried out, "Stand up on your feet!" The man jumped up and began walking around.

Then some evil people came from Antioch and Iconium and persuaded the people to turn against Paul. So they threw stones at him and dragged him out of town, thinking they had killed him.

They chose elders for each church, by praying and fasting for a certain time. These elders had trusted the Lord, so Paul and Barnabas put them in the Lord's care.

Paul and Barnabas were against this teaching and argued with them about it. So the church decided to send Paul, Barnabas, and some others to Jerusalem where they could talk more about this with the apostles and elders.

So now why are you testing God by putting a heavy load around the necks of the non-Jewish believers? It is a load that neither we nor our ancestors were able to carry.

"So I think we should not bother the other people who are turning to God.