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When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him.

Opening his mouth, Peter said: "I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality,

"All the prophets testify of Him, that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins."

"And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying, 'Send some men to Joppa and have Simon, who is also called Peter, brought here;

And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly stood near Peter, and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter's side and woke him, saying, "Get up quickly." And his chains fell off his hands.

When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."

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

But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had led him out of the prison. And he said, "Report these things to James and the brothers." Then he left and went to another place.

On an appointed day, after putting on his royal apparel, Herod took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them.

But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen:

after John had proclaimed, before His coming, a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

"And while John was completing his course, he kept saying, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, One is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

and for many days He appeared to those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very ones who are now His witnesses to the people.

"For David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, fell asleep, and was buried among his fathers and underwent decay;

Therefore they spent a long time there speaking boldly with reliance upon the Lord, who was testifying to the word of His grace, granting that signs and wonders be performed by their hands.

In Lystra a man was sitting whose feet were incapacitated. He had been disabled from his mother's womb, and had never walked.

"Simeon has described how God first concerned Himself about taking a people for His name from among the Gentiles.

Now Paul also came to Derbe and to Lystra. And a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek,