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For, with a loud cry, foul spirits came out of many possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame persons were restored to health.

Now for some time past there had been a man named Simon living there, who had been practising magic and astonishing the Samaritans, pretending that he was more than human.

His influence over them arose from their having been, for a long time, bewildered by his sorceries.

They, when they came down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit:

for He had not as yet fallen upon any of them. They had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

No part or lot have you in this matter, for your heart is not right in God's sight.

For I perceive that you have fallen into the bitterest bondage of unrighteousness."

"Pray, both of you, to the Lord for me," answered Simon, "that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."

In His humiliation justice was denied Him. Who will make known His posterity? For He is destroyed from among men."

Now Saul, whose every breath was a threat of destruction for the disciples of the Lord,

And for two days he remained without sight, and did not eat or drink anything.

"Rise," said the Lord, "and go to Straight Street, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man called Saul, from Tarsus, for he is actually praying.

For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake."

Saul, however, gained more and more influence, and as for the Jews living in Damascus, he bewildered them with his proofs that Jesus is the Christ.

There he found a man of the name of Aeneas, who for eight years had kept his bed, through being paralysed.

and Peter remained for a considerable time at Jaffa, staying at the house of a man called Simon, a tanner.

He had become unusually hungry and wished for food; but, while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance.

"On no account, Lord," he replied; "for I have never yet eaten anything unholy and impure."

And Peter was still earnestly thinking over the vision, when the Spirit said to him, "Three men are now inquiring for you.

Rise, go down, and go with them without any misgivings; for it is I who have sent them to you."