So those who accepted his teaching were baptized, and about three thousand people joined the disciples on that day alone.

So God's Message spread, and the number of the disciples continued to increase rapidly in Jerusalem, and a large body of the priests accepted the Faith.

'Cornelius,' he said, 'your prayer has been heard, and your charities have been accepted, by God.

And saw Jesus saying to me 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

"We owe it to your Excellency," he said, "that we are enjoying profound peace, and we owe it to your foresight that this nation is constantly securing reforms--advantages which we very gratefully accept at all times and places.

Some were inclined to accept what he said; others, however, rejected it.