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* Now those around Paul , having launched from Paphos , they came to Perga in Pamphylia . But John , having departed from them , returned to Jerusalem . * And they , having passed through from Perga , arrived at Antioch of Pisidia , and after entering into the synagogue on the Sabbath day , they sat down . * And after the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue rulers sent to them , saying , Men , brothers , if there is among you a word of exhortation for the people , speak . * And Paul having stood up , and having motioned with the hand , he said , Men , Israelites , and those who fear God , listen . * The God of this people Israel chose our fathers , and raised up the people during the sojourn in the land of Egypt . And with a lofty arm he brought them out of it . * And for about a forty-year time he was patient with them in the wilderness . * And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan , he allotted their land to them . * And after these things he gave them judges about four hundred and fifty years until Samuel the prophet . * And afterward they asked for a king , and God gave them Saul the son of Kish , a man of the tribe of Benjamin , for forty years . * And having removed him , he raised up David for a king to them , also about whom he said , when he testified , I have found David the son of Jesse , a man according to my heart , who will do all my purposes . * From this man 's seed according to promise , God brought salvation to Israel , * John having earlier proclaimed , before his coming presence , the immersion of repentance to Israel . * And as John was fulfilling his course , he said , Whom do ye suppose me to be ? I am not , but behold , he comes after me of whom I am not worthy to loose the shoes of his feet . * Men , brothers , sons of the race of Abraham , and those among you who fear God , to you the word of this salvation was sent . * For those who dwell in Jerusalem , and their rulers , not having known this and the voices of the prophets being read at every Sabbath , they fulfilled , having condemned him . * And not having found one cause of death in him , they asked for Pilate to kill him . * And when they completed all the things written about him , having taken him down from the tree , they laid him in a tomb . * But God raised him from the dead , * who was seen for more days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem , who are witnesses of him to the people . * And we proclaim good-news to you : the promise to the fathers , which happened because God has fulfilled this to us their children , having raised up Jesus , * as also it is written in the second psalm , Thou are my Son , today I have begotten thee . * And because he raised him from the dead , no longer going to return to decay , he has spoken this way : I will give to you the faithful holy things of David . * Therefore also he says in another , Thou will not give thy Holy man to see decay . * For indeed David , who served his own generation in the plan of God , became asleep , and was added near his fathers , and saw decay . * But he whom God raised up saw no decay . * Be it known to you therefore , men , brothers , that through this man remission of sins is proclaimed to you . * And from all things of which ye could not be make righteous by the Law of Moses , in this man every man who believes is made righteous . * Watch therefore , lest that which is spoken in the prophets should come upon you : * Behold , ye scoffers , and wonder , and perish , because I work a work in your days , which ye would , no , not believe , if some man should fully narrate it to you . * And as they went out from the synagogue of the Jews , the Gentiles urged that these sayings be spoken to them the next Sabbath . * Now after the synagogue was dismissed , many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas , who , while conversing , persuaded them to continue in the grace of God . * And on the coming Sabbath almost all the city was assembled to hear the word of God . * But when the Jews saw the multitudes , they were filled of envy , and contradicted the things spoken by Paul , contradicting and slandering . * But having spoken boldly , Paul and Barnabas said , It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you , but since ye thrust it away , and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life , lo , we turn to the Gentiles . * For so the Lord has commanded us : I have placed thee for a light of Gentiles , for thee to be for salvation as far as the extremity of the earth . * And hearing this , the Gentiles were glad and glorified the word of the Lord . And as many as were appointed for eternal life believed . * And the word of the Lord was spread abroad through the whole region . * But the Jews incited the religious women , and the prominent women , and the principle men of the city , and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas . And they threw them out of their boundaries . * But after shaking off the dust of their feet against them , they came to Iconium . * And the disciples were filled with joy and Holy Spirit .

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