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So in the present case, I tell you, stay away from these men and leave them alone. For if this plan or this work is of human origin, it will fail;

The Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, “It would not be right for us to give up preaching the word of God to wait on tables.

For we heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.

were carried back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home for three months.

This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

“This is the Moses who said to the Israelites: God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers and sisters.

They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

Heaven is my throne,and the earth my footstool.What sort of house will you build for me?says the Lord,or what will be my resting place?

For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed, and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.

They were attentive to him because he had amazed them with his sorceries for a long time.

After they went down there, they prayed for them so the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit because he had not yet come down on any of them.

For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by wickedness.”

“Pray to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

In his humiliation justice was denied him.Who will describe his generation?For his life is taken from the earth.

He was unable to see for three days and did not eat or drink.

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is my chosen instrument

I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”