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Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Verse ConceptsAfrican AmericansDoctrine, CommunicatedTeachersTetrarchChristian TeachersAnonymityRulers Of A FourthMissionaries

They covered the whole island as far as Paphos, where they fell in with a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet called Bar-Jesus;

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithDivination, Practiced ByTravelFalse Teachers, Examples OfFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersSorcery

Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofDerision

they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian towns called Lystra and Derbe, and to the surrounding countryside.

And the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language: "The Gods have made themselves like men and have come down to us."

Verse ConceptsLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureBecoming Like PeopleLike MenMen As Gods

But certain believers, [who had been] members of the sect called Pharisees [i.e., a strict sect of the Jewish religion], began saying, "It is necessary to circumcise people [see verse 1] and require them to keep [the ordinances of] the law of Moses."

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessCircumcision, physicalBelieversHeresiesJudaismSectsNecessity Of CircumcisionThose Who Believed In ChristKeep The Commandments!pharisees

Symeon has related how God first looked graciously on the Gentiles to take from among them a People to be called by His name.

Verse ConceptsFirst Among The GentilesOther References To God's Name

Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.

Verse ConceptsVisitingChoosing PeoplePeople Sending PeopleThe Apostles In Action

So the messengers were sent out, and they went down to Antioch, called a meeting of the congregation, and delivered the letter.

Verse ConceptsChurch Gatherings

He also came down to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timotheus, the son of a believing Jewess and a Greek father.

Verse ConceptsBelieversGrandmothers

Among the listeners there was a woman called Lydia, a dealer in purple who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She reverenced God, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.

Verse ConceptsHearingListeningColors, PurpleReceptivenessResponseProselytesThe Act Of OpeningOpening To OthersPurple ClothMissionariesevangelising

and having come they called for them, and leading them out, requested them to go away from their city.

Verse ConceptsLeaving

But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill-favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Verse ConceptsEnvyIntoleranceJealousyMarketsUnbelieversEnvy, Example OfUnbelief, Examples OfDisorder Among PeopleBringing People Out Of Other PlacesIsrael HardenedMaking Israel Jealous

and Jason has taken them in. They all disobey the emperor's decrees, and claim that someone else called Jesus is king."

Verse ConceptsdefianceKingship, DivineTreasonFalse Accusations, Examples OfWelcoming BelieversDifferent Personacting

So, they led him to the Areopagus [i.e., an elevated assembly place called "the Hill of Mars"] and asked him, "Could we learn [more] about this new teaching you are speaking of?

Some men, however, did join him and believe, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman called Damaris, and some others.

Verse ConceptsConverts To ChristianityThose Who Believed In Christ

There he came across a Jew called Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, as Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul accosted them,

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And departing thence, he came to the house of a person, called Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was contiguous to the synagogue.

Verse ConceptsProselytes

There came to Ephesus a Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria, a man of culture, strong in his knowledge of the scriptures.

Verse ConceptsAlexandria The CityEloquenceMissionaries, Call OfApollosMissionary ExamplesUse Of The ScripturesRace

When divers waxed hard hearted, and believed not, but spake evil of the way of the Lord, and that before the multitude: he departed from them; And separated the disciples away; And disputed daily in the school of one called Tyrannus.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofUnbelief, As Response To GodWay, TheUnbelief, Sourced InUnbelief, Results Of Being GuiltyUnbelief, Examples OfDiscussionsSchoolsObstinate IndividualsOnce A DaySchoolChristians Are Called Followers Of The Way

By making silver shrines of Artemis a silversmith called Demetrius was the means of bringing rich profit to his workmen.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenSculptureShrinesSilverSkill

Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.

Verse ConceptsGathering Friends

Some of the crowd called upon Alexander, as the Jews had pushed him to the front, and he made a gesture with his hand and was going to speak in defense of them to the people.

For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.

Verse ConceptsTumultDisorder Among Peoplerisk

And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.

Verse ConceptsExcitementSoundSilencegoodbyes

In the window sat a young man called Eutychus, and as Paul's address went on and on, he got overcome with drowsiness, went fast asleep, and fell from the third storey. He was picked up a corpse,

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means OfSleep, PhysicalPeople Falling From A HeightThree Parts Of ConstructionsBad LuckteenagerFalling Backwards

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet called Agabus came down from Judaea.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

And when we heard these things, we called upon him -- both we, and those of that place -- not to go up to Jerusalem,

And having permitted him, Paul, having stood on the steps, motioned his hand to the people. And when a great hush developed, he called out in the Hebrew language, saying,

And having heard that he called out to them in the Hebrew language, they offered more silence. And he says,

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being Silent

Up to this point the people had been listening to Paul, but at these words they called out: "Kill him! A fellow like this ought not to have been allowed to live!"

Verse ConceptsCrowdsVoicesPersecution Of The Apostle Paulserenity

Paul [then] looked intently at the Council [i.e., the Jewish supreme court called the "Sanhedrin"] and spoke [in his defense]: "Brothers, I have lived before God with a good conscience all my life."

Verse ConceptsClear ConsciencesConsciences, Description OfMan's Conduct Towards GodLooking Intently At PeopleconscienceClear Conscience Before God

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

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Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him.

Verse ConceptsChiliarchs

So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.

Verse ConceptsChiliarchs

And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;

Verse ConceptsTravelThe Number Two HundredRiding HorsesSeventiesTwo Other Men

And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid their informations against Paul before the governor.

Verse ConceptsAttorneyGovernorsHigh Priest, In NtFour Or Five DaysPeople Accusing People

And, when he was called, Tertullus began to make accusation, saying - Seeing that, great peace, we are obtaining through thee, and that, reforms, are being brought about for this nation through thy forethought,

Verse ConceptsThings ImprovedMen Of Peace

But, I declare to you, I am serving the God of our forefathers according to the 'Way,' called [by my detractors] a sect, and I believe everything that is in harmony with the law of Moses and what is written in [the writings of] the prophets.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristHeresiesSectsWay, TheFaith, Object OfBelieving ProphetsTaking The Law To HeartWritten In The ProphetsWorshiping TogetherBeing DifferentbeliefconfessingChristians Are Called Followers Of The Way

Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

Verse ConceptsThe Dead Are Raised

And after a certain days came Felix, and his wife Drusilla which was a Jewess, and called forth Paul, and heard him of the faith which is toward Christ.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds of

He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul that he might loose him, wherefore he called him the oftener, and communed with him.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsHope, Nature OfLove, Abuse OfMoney, Uses OfCovetousness, Example OfConversationFinances

But I found that there were certain questions in dispute between them about their own religion, and about some dead man called Jesus, whom Paul declared to be alive.

Verse ConceptsChrist's LifeThe Fact Of Christ's Deathconnection

As he said this in his defense, Festus called out, "You are raving, Paul! Your great learning is driving you mad!"

Verse ConceptsIntelligenceMockeryLunaticsEducation

When it was decided we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to an officer of the Imperial regiment called Julius.

Verse ConceptsCenturionRoman Emperorssailing

Embarking in an Andramyttian ship which was bound for the Asiatic seaports, we set sail, accompanied by a Macedonian from Thessalonica called Aristarchus.

Verse ConceptsShipsThe NavySea Travel

And, running under the lee, of some small island, called Cauda, we were able, with difficulty, to make ourselves masters of the boat, -

Verse ConceptsSmallnessBoats

And when they [finally] got the boat hoisted up, they slung [rope] cables underneath [and around] the hull [of the ship to reinforce it]. Then, fearing the ship would run aground on the [shifting], shallow sandbar [called] Syrtis, they lowered their [navigation] gear [Note: This may have been sails, rigging, etc.] and so were driven [as a derelict by the wind].

Verse ConceptsRopesSandShipsPropellingPutting Things Down

There was an estate in the neighbourhood which belonged to a man called Publius, the governor of the island; he welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

Verse ConceptsGuestsHospitality, Examples OfCourtesyHospitalityTravellersWelcoming Other Peoplefriendliness

Three months passed before we set sail in an Alexandrian vessel, called the 'Twin Brothers,' which had wintered at the island.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsConstellationsStarsMythologyShipsAlexandria The CityTwinsTwo To Four MonthsSea TravelTwin BrothersRelationships And Datingsailing

where, having found brethren, we were called upon to remain with them seven days, and thus to Rome we came;

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days

And it came to pass, after three days, that he called together those who were the chief of the Jews; and, when they came together, he began to say unto them - I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, as a prisoner, out of Jerusalem, was delivered into the hands of the Romans;

Verse ConceptsCustomAncestorsPrisonersPlea Of InnocenceSalvation For Israel

For this cause, therefore, have I called for you, to see and to speak with you; for, on account of the hope of Israel, this chain, have I about me!

Verse ConceptsChainsHope, As ConfidenceIron ChainsSalvation For IsraelFor The Sake Of God's Peoplevocation

As it is written, "I have made thee a father to many nations," even before God whom thou hast believed, which quickeneth the dead and called those things which be not, as though they were.

Verse ConceptsExistenceFaithChaosGod, The CreatorThe Existence Of ThingsExistence Through GodNon ExistenceThe Dead Are RaisedGod's CallCalling

Hence then, her husband being alive, an adulteress, shall she be called - if she become another man's, but, if the husband have died, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

Verse ConceptsWithout The LawSex Before Marriageadultry

We know, further, that, unto them who love God, God causeth all things to work together for good, - unto them who, according to purpose, are such as he hath called;

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yer the children were born, when they had neither done good neither bad - that the purpose of God, which is by election, might stand - it was said unto her, not by the reason of works, but by grace of the caller,

Verse ConceptsElection, Characteristics OfGood Or BadBirthChosen Disciples

What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory ??24 that is, for us whom he has called from among the Gentiles as well as the Jews?

Verse ConceptsElection, Results InPredestined PeopleGloryRiches Of GraceGod Will Show MercyMercy And Grace

God has not repudiated his People, his predestined People! Surely you know what scripture says in the passage called 'Elijah'? You know how he pleads with God against Israel:

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingForeknowledgeCastawaysGod's ForeknowledgeGod Not ForsakingIsrael HardenedScripture Says

as for me, it is a matter of no great concern that I should be called to account by you, or any human authority; not that I am my own judge;

Verse ConceptsNot JudgingUnimportant ThingsJudgmentsJudgingSelf WorthSelf EsteemBeing YourselfJudgementJudging Others Actionsmyself