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The following day they came to Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

On Peter's arrival Cornelius met him, and falling at his feet, worshiped him.

All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."

He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon, who is called Peter;

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his wrists.

Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hands of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."

They said to her, "You are out of your mind!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."

He motioned to them with his hand to be silent, and described for them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he added, "Tell this to James and to the believers." Then he left and went to another place.

On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat on the platform, and delivered a public address to them.

But the magician Elymas (for that is the translation of his name) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

Then Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however, left them and returned to Jerusalem;

When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart, who will carry out all my wishes.'

before his coming John had already proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

And as John was finishing his work, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but one is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the thong of the sandals on his feet.'

and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and they are now his witnesses to the people.

As to his raising him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, ‘I will give you the holy promises made to David.'

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died, was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption;

So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace by granting signs and wonders to be done through them.

In Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet and had never walked, for he had been crippled from birth.

Simeon has related how God first looked favorably on the Gentiles, to take from among them a people for his name.