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And He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He [i.e., Jesus] is the One whom God ordained to be the Judge of people who are [now] alive and those who have [already] died.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTHeraldJudgesLast JudgmentLast ThingsMissionaries, Task OfJesus Christ, JudgeChrist, Names ForEternal JudgmentApostles, Commission OfChrist's OrdersGod Appointing His SonLife And DeathSubsequent Witness To Christ

And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, Of The GospelThe Gentiles ConversionForeigners Saved By FaithThe Apostles In Action

"You went into the houses of men who are not Jews," they said, "and you ate with them."

Verse ConceptsRacial PrejudiceUncircumcision

And the Spirit told me to accompany them without any misgivings. There also went with me these six brethren who are now present, and we reached the Centurion's house.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, motivation forHesitationMind, Of ChristInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Purpose OfThe Holy Spirit As CounsellorGoing TogetherSix PeopleThe Spirit SpeakingLed By The Spiritdiscrimination

[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!

Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfShrewdnessDenunciationsMischiefChildren Of EvilTwistingStraight PathsMen DeceivingChildren Of The DevilEnemies Of GodDemonic Influence

Now, look! The Lord’s hand is against you. You are going to be blind, and will not see the sun for a time.” Suddenly a mist and darkness fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesHand Of GodMiracles, Nature OfMistPainMiracles Of PaulMiracles Bringing God's JudgmentBarriersGod's HandOvertaken By DarknessGod BlindingGod's Hands In Oppositionfitness

Then after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogues sent to them, saying, Men and brethren, if ye are disposed to give a word of exhortation to the people, speak.

Verse ConceptsReadingLiteracySynagogueReading The ScripturesExhort OthersStudying The LawUse Of The ScripturesWritten In The ProphetsEncouragementMotivationReading The Bibleencouraginguplifting

And, as John was fulfilling his course, he was saying - Whom are ye supposing that I am? I, am not he! But lo! there cometh, after me, one of whom I am not worthy, the sandals of his feet, to loosen.

Verse ConceptsSandalsShoesWho Is John The Baptist?Undoing Fastenings

It is to you, my brethren, who are the children of Abraham, and to all who fear God among you, that this salutary news is sent.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsReverence, And ObedienceChildren Of AbrahamThe Gospel Of SalvationRace

fulfilled the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath; and having found no cause of death, asked Pilate that he should be executed;

Verse ConceptsChrist Was Killed

to you therefore we declare, that the promise which God had made to the fathers, he has now perform'd to us, who are their children, by his having raised up Jesus again.

Verse ConceptsGod's Promise To Abraham

But that he raised him from the dead, no more in future to return to corruption, he hath thus spoken, "I will give you the holy things of David, which are sure."

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidGod Raising ChristNo Decaycorruption

Both Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly [and] said, "It was necessary [that] the word of God be spoken first to you, since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life! Behold, we are turning to the Gentiles!

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtCourage, In Facing EnemiesBoldness, Proclaiming Gospeldenial of Jesus ChristNecessityRejection Of GodRejection Of God's CallUnworthinessAdvice, Rejecting God's AdvicePreaching Gospel To ForeignersNot Maintaining LifeTo The Jew Firstholy Boldness

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

Verse ConceptsLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureBecoming Like PeopleLike MenMen As Gods

But, when the Apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd. "Friends, why are you doing this?" they shouted.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesClothing, Tearing OfApostles, DescriptionIndividuals RunningThose Who Tore Clothes

who in generations that are past permitted all the nations to go their [own] ways.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysLife, Of FaithGod Acting Of OldLeaving People AloneThe Pastpast

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelists, ministry ofHeraldLipsDissensionDisputesMissionary ExamplesThe Gentiles ConversionPreaching Gospel To ForeignersForeigners Saved By FaithChosen DisciplesSpeaking With The Mouth

Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Verse ConceptsLegalismSatan, As TempterTestingYokesTesting GodUnbearable ThingsPutting God FirstResisting TemptationTeststrying

and after they are silent, James answered, saying, 'Men, brethren, hearken to me;

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

so the rest of humanity
may seek the Lord—
even all the Gentiles
who are called by My name,
declares the Lord who does these things,

Verse ConceptsSpiritual AdoptionResidueCalled By God's Name

After all, Moses has had people to proclaim him in every city for generations, and on every Sabbath his books are read aloud in the synagogues."

Verse ConceptsReadingSabbath, In NtReading The ScripturesOn The SabbathThe Law ProclaimedUse Of The Scripturesthe Law of moses

And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:

Verse ConceptsBelieversGreetingsThe Apostles In Action

we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.

Verse ConceptsConfirmationLiteracyGiving InformationPowers Of Speech

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessLove, In RelationshipsSexual Sin, Nature OfAbstaining From MeatsAbstinencePeople Consuming BloodChokingAvoiding EvilAvoid ImmoralityCreatures ChokedFood Offered To IdolsBloodSexual ImmoralitySexual Puritygoodbyes

and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, 'Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord -- how they are.'

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineConverts To ChristianityMissionariesChristians Being Called Brothers

this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalMissionary Work, Examples OfGoing TogetherIsrael HardenedJews

And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who are in Jerusalem,

Verse ConceptsCouncil of JerusalemCommands, in NTApostles, Authority In Churchelders, in the churchBishops, QualificationsTownBishops, DutiesThe Apostles In Action

But when her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the market place [where trials were held],

Verse ConceptsArrestingFalse Witnesses,examples OfHope, Nature OfLove, Abuse OfMarketsMarketplacesPulling People

The jailer reported this message to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent orders that you are to be released. So you can take your leave and go unmolested."

Verse ConceptsPrison Keepers

But Paul said to them, “They beat us in public without a trial, although we are Roman citizens, and threw us in jail. And now are they going to smuggle us out secretly? Certainly not! On the contrary, let them come themselves and escort us out!”

Verse ConceptsApologizingempiresPersecution, Forms OfPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRoman CitizensBeating BelieversSpreading StoriesAvoiding SecrecyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesNo JusticeCitizenstrailsjail

And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,

And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownPulling PeopleNot FindingTroubling Groups Of PeopleCauses of failure in

and Jason has received them as guests! They are all acting contrary to Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king—Jesus!”

Verse ConceptsdefianceKingship, DivineTreasonFalse Accusations, Examples OfWelcoming BelieversDifferent Personacting

So he had discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place day after day with any who happened to be there.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofDevout MenReasonWitnessing, Approaches ToDisputesMarketplacesProselytesDiscussionsmarketing

having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought him, saying, 'Are we able to know what is this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

For you are bringing some astonishing things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what {these things mean}."

Verse ConceptsMeaning

Then Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that you are extremely religious in every respect.

Verse ConceptsAudiencesflexibility

For as I was going here and there and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' So it is about the Being whom you are in ignorance already worshiping that I am telling you.

Verse ConceptsAmbassadorsGod, Revelation OfIgnorance, Of GodInscriptionsOpportunities, And SalvationSuperstitionPolytheismUnknown GodsHow Not To WorshipIgnorance of GodEclipseignorancedevotion

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritFalse ReligionGoldSculptureSkillStonesEvolutionProofs Of God's ExistenceStone ItemsIdolatryDivineDivinityGodheadimaginationartistsimage

When the Jews resisted [Paul's efforts] and spoke against him and his message, he shook out his clothing [i.e., an expression of rejection and contempt] and said to them "Let your blood be on your own heads [i.e., you are responsible for whatever harm comes from your action]; I am not responsible. From now on I will go [and preach] to the Gentiles [only]."

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtConfrontationBlood, as symbol of guiltInsultsSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfAbuse, To God's PeopleRejection Of God's CallShakingName CallingThe Gentiles ConversionPreaching Gospel To ForeignersResponsibility For Blood ShedPeople Abandoning PeopleBlasphemy

"This fellow," they said, "is trying to induce people to worship God in ways that are against the law."

Verse ConceptsIntoleranceInciting To EvilHow Not To WorshipBreaking God's Law

But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of such things.”

Verse ConceptsNot Judging

And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brethren, was sailing to Syria -- and with him are Priscilla and Aquilas -- having shorn his head in Cenchera, for he had a vow;

Verse ConceptsBaldness, UnnaturalBarbersBaldnessHairsSeafaringVowsAquilaCutting HairSea Travelsyriagoodbyes

and there were certain -- seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest -- who are doing this thing;

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenRiverspriests

and this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who are dwelling at Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified,

Verse ConceptsHonorMiracles, Responses ToFear, Of UnknownShowing Forth His PraiseThe Gospel To Jew And GentileThings Manifest

summon'd the company, and thus address'd them, "tho' you know, sirs, it is by this craft that we are in such plight,

Verse ConceptsGathering Friends

Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionPolytheism

And not only is this interest in danger to us to come into disrepute; but even the temple of the great goddess Diana to be considered for nought, and they are about even to despise the majesty of her, whom all Asia and the world worships.

Verse ConceptsCovetousness, Example OfAll NationsWorshipping Material ThingsDeposing

Therefore, since these things are undeniable, you must keep calm and not do anything rash.

Verse ConceptsQuietnessRashnessSure KnowledgeDo Not Be Rashimpulsiveness

If then, Demetrius, and the craftsmen with him, have against anyone an accusation, courts, are being held, and there are, proconsuls: let them accuse one another!

Verse ConceptsProconsulCourt SessionsPeople Accusing People

But, if after, something further, ye are seeking, in the regular assembly shall it be settled.

Verse ConceptsAssembly

For we are, even in danger of being accused of riot, concerning this day, no cause at all, existing, by reference to which we shall be able to give a reason for this concourse.

Verse ConceptsTumultDisorder Among Peoplerisk

And when they arrived he said to them:

“You know well how I [lived when I] was with you, from the first day that I set foot in Asia [until now],

Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceMannersFirst Among The GentilesPeople With General Knowledge

how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,

Verse ConceptsHesitationPreaching, Content OfProperty, HousesTeachersMinisters, Way They Should TeachTeaching In The ChurchUseful ThingsPeople Willing

sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said -- that they are about no more to see his face; and they were accompanying him to the ship.

Verse ConceptsLove, For One AnotherSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessFarewellsNot Seeing People

and he came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own hands and feet, and said: Thus says the Holy Spirit; the Jews that are in Jerusalem will so bind the man to whom this girdle belongs; and they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Verse ConceptsBeltsWarning IndividualsSuffering From ForeignersSpeaking By The SpiritTying Up

And, they, having heard, began glorifying God; and they said to him - Thou observest, brother, how many myriads there are among the Jews who have believed, and, all, are zealous for the law.

Verse ConceptsZealMany In The ChurchSalvation For IsraelSpecific Praising Of GodTaking The Law To Heartzealots

Now they have heard it rumoured concerning thee, that, an apostacy, art thou teaching, from Moses, unto all the Jews, who are among the nations, telling them not to be circumcising their children, nor, by the customs, to be walking.

Verse ConceptsCustomPersecution, Forms OfUncircumcisionApostasy, Types OfMisteachingNecessity Of CircumcisionThe Gospel To Jew And Gentileapostasy

what then is to be done? they will necessarily be all assembled, for they can't but hear, you are come.

yield then to our advice: there are four men here, who have made a vow:

Verse ConceptsFour People

Taking these unto thee, be purified with them, and spend something upon them, that they may shave their head; and all will get to know, that the things which they have heard rumoured concerning thee, are, nothing, - on the contrary, thou thyself, dost keep the ranks, guarding the law.

Verse ConceptsShavingPurifying OneselfPaying For GoodsKeep The Commandments!

But as for the Gentiles who have accepted the faith, we have communicated to them our decision that they are carefully to abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

Verse ConceptsFoodPeople Consuming BloodChokingAvoiding EvilForeigners Saved By FaithAvoid ImmoralityCreatures ChokedFood Offered To IdolsSexual Immorality

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

Verse ConceptsInciting To EvilSeven DaysDisciples In The TempleSeven Days For Legal Purposes

"To this the high priest and all the council of elders are witnesses. It was from them that I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was already on my way to bring those also who were there back to Jerusalem, in bonds, for punishment.

Verse ConceptsLettersSanhedrin

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsPeople Tumbling

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