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But Peter helped him up, saying, "Stand up. I too am only a human."

He said, "You people understand that it is against our law for Jewish people to associate with or visit anyone who is not Jewish. But God has shown me that I should not call any person ‘unholy' or ‘unclean.'

We saw what Jesus did in Judea and in Jerusalem, but the Jews in Jerusalem killed him by hanging him on a cross.

not by all the people, but only by the witnesses God had already chosen. And we are those witnesses who ate and drank with him after he was raised from the dead.

But when Peter came to Jerusalem, some people argued with him.

But I said, ‘No, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is unholy or unclean.'

But the voice from heaven spoke again, ‘God has made these things clean, so don't call them unholy.'

Then I remembered the words of the Lord. He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

Many of the believers were scattered when they were persecuted after Stephen was killed. Some of them went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch telling the message to others, but only to Jews.

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.

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.

Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, but the people of those cities all came in a group to him. After convincing Blastus, the king's personal servant, to be on their side, they asked Herod for peace, because their country got its food from his country.

But Elymas, the magician, was against them. (Elymas is the name for Bar-Jesus in the Greek language.) He tried to stop the governor from believing in Jesus.

But Saul, who was also called Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit. He looked straight at Elymas

Those who live in Jerusalem and their leaders did not realize that Jesus was the Savior. They did not understand the words that the prophets wrote, which are read every Sabbath day. But they made them come true when they said Jesus was guilty.

They could not find any real reason for Jesus to be put to death, but they asked Pilate to have him killed.

But God raised him up from the dead!

But in another place God says: ‘You will not let your Holy One rot.' Psalm 16:10