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Then Kefa came to himself and said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod's power and from everything the Judean people were hoping for."

"You're out of your mind!" they said to her. But she insisted it was true. So they said, "It is his angel."

Motioning to them with his hand to be quiet, he told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison and said, "Tell all this to Ya‘akov and the brothers." Then he left and went elsewhere.

A day was set, and Herod in his royal robes sat on the throne and made a speech to them.

but the sorcerer Elymas (for that is how his name is translated) opposed them, doing his best to turn the governor away from the faith.

Having set sail from Paphos, Sha'ul and his companions arrived at Perga in Pamphylia. There Yochanan left them and returned to Yerushalayim,

So Sha'ul stood, motioned with his hand, and said: "Men of Isra'el and God-fearers, listen!

and after he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Kena‘an he gave their land to his people as an inheritance.

God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, ‘ I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart ; he will do everything I want.'

"In keeping with his promise, God has brought to Isra'el from this man's descendants a deliverer, Yeshua.

But as Yochanan was ending his work, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? Well — I'm not! But after me is coming someone, the sandals of whose feet I am unworthy to untie.'

He appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim; and they are now his witnesses to the people.

And as for his raising him up from the dead, to return to decay no more, he said, ‘I will give the holy and trustworthy things of David to you.'

For David did indeed serve God's purposes in his own generation; but after that, he died, was buried with his fathers and did see decay .

That is, God clears everyone who puts his trust in this man, even in regard to all the things concerning which you could not be cleared by the Torah of Moshe.

Therefore, Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba remained for a long time, speaking boldly about the Lord, who bore witness to the message about his love and kindness by enabling them to perform signs and miracles.

There was a man living in Lystra who could not use his feet — crippled from birth, he had never walked.

yet he did not leave himself without evidence of his nature; because he does good things, giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons, filling you with food and your hearts with happiness!"

Shim‘on has told in detail what God did when he first began to show his concern for taking from among the Goyim a people to bear his name.

For from the earliest times, Moshe has had in every city those who proclaim him, with his words being read in the synagogues every Shabbat."