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And again, a voice from heaven said to me: What God hath cleansed, make thou not unclean.

If then God equally gave the gift to the Gentiles that believed in our Lord Jesus Messiah, as he did to us: who was I, that I could forbid God?

And when they heard these words, they desisted; and they glorified God and said: Now to the Gentiles also doth God give repentance unto life.

And when he came there, and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced: and he entreated them, that with all their heart, they would adhere to our Lord.

And while Simon was in custody in the prison, continual prayer to God in his behalf, was offered to God by the church.

Then Simon recognized [fn] ; and he said: Now I know, in reality, that God hath sent his angel, and delivered me from the hand of Herod the king, and from what the Jews were devising against me.

And all the people shouted, and said: These are the utterances of a God, and not of a mortal.

And, because he gave not the glory to God, immediately the angel of God smote him; and he was eaten of worms, and died.

And the gospel of God was proclaimed, and made progress.

And while they were fasting and making supplication to God, the Holy Spirit said to them: Separate to me Saul and Barnabas, for the work to which I have called them.

He adhered to a wise man, who was the proconsul, and was called Sergius Paulus. And the proconsul sent for Saul and Barnabas, and requested to hear from them the word of God.

And Paul arose, and waved his hand, and said: Men, sons of Israel, and ye that fear God, hear ye.

The God of this people chose our fathers, and raised them up, and multiplied them, when they resided in the land of Egypt; and, with a high arm, he brought them out of it.

And then they asked for themselves a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.

From the seed of this man, hath God raised up to Israel, as he promised, Jesus a deliverer.

Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and all who, with you, fear God, to you is this word of life sent.

But God raised him from the dead.

lo, God hath fulfilled it to us their children, in that he raised up Jesus; as it is written in the second psalm: Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

And God hath so raised him from the dead, that he will not return again and see corruption; as he said: I will give to you the sure grace of David.

For David, in his generation, served the pleasure of God, and went to rest, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption.