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"Go," said Jesus, "your faith has cured you." Instantly he regained his sight, and followed Him along the road.

Jesus said to them, "Have faith in God.

He saw their faith and said to him, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."

Jesus listened to the Captain's message and was astonished at him, and He turned and said to the crowd that followed Him, "I tell you that not even in Israel have I found faith like that."

But He said to the woman, "Your faith has cured you: go, and be at peace."

"Where is your faith?" He asked them. But they were filled with terror and amazement, and said to one another, "Who then is this? for He gives orders both to wind and waves, and they obey Him."

"Daughter," said He, "your faith has cured you; go, and be at peace."

But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!

And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."

"If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, `Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you.

And He said to him, "Rise and go: your faith has cured you."

Yes, He will soon avenge their wrongs. Yet, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?"

"Recover your sight," said Jesus: "your faith has cured you."

But *I* have prayed for *you* that your faith may not fail, and you, when at last you have come back to your true self, must strengthen your brethren."

It is His name-- faith in that name being the condition--which has strengthened this man whom you behold and know; and the faith which He has given has made this man sound and strong again, as you can all see.

Among all those who had embraced the faith there was but one heart and soul, so that none of them claimed any of his possessions as his own, but everything they had was common property;

The suggestion met with general approval, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.

Meanwhile God's Message continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem very greatly increased, and very many priests obeyed the faith.

But when Philip began to tell the Good News about the Kingdom of God and about the Name of Jesus Christ, and they embraced the faith, they were baptized, men and women alike.

For he was a good man, and was full of the Holy Spirit and of faith; and the number of believers in the Lord greatly increased.