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Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the church.

And look, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shined in the cell: and he smote Peter on the side, and awoke him, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

And when Peter came to himself, he said, Now I know of a truth, that the Lord has sent forth his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

And they said to her, You are insane. But she confidently affirmed that it was even so. And they said, It is his angel.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.

But Saul, who is also [called] Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

when John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, What do you suppose that I am? I am not [he]. But look, there comes one after me the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.

and he was seen for many days of those that came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:

Therefore they tarried [there] a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

And at Lystra there sat a certain man, lame in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who had never walked.

Symeon has rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra: and look, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman that believed; but his father was a Greek.

Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts: for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

And the jailor, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him, with all that were in his house.

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

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