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

And now, look, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

And for about the time of forty years as a foster-father he bore them in the wilderness.

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave [them] their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years:

And afterward they asked for a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for the space of forty years.

For those that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled [them] by condemning [him].

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:

Look, you despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which you shall in no way believe, if one declares it to you.

For so has the Lord commanded us, [saying], "I have set you for a light of the Gentiles, That you should be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth."

And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

and from there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

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

For Moses from generations of old has in every city those that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.

men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things:

And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.

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 this she did for many days. But Paul, being very troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.