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They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;

Paul, having stayed after this yet many days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila with him. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages, and prophesied.

so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.

Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for his life is in him."

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.