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Ask a QuestionNow Paul and his companions sailed from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John [Mark] separated himself from them and went back to Jerusalem,
And he drove them away from the judgment seat.
And [you have heard how] I outstripped many of the men of my own generation among the people of my race in [my advancement in study and observance of the laws of] Judaism, so extremely enthusiastic and zealous I was for the traditions of my ancestors.
But God raised Him from the dead.
When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brethren received and welcomed us gladly.
And Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly and boldly, saying, It was necessary that God's message [concerning Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.salvation through Christ] should be spoken to you first. But since you thrust it from you, you pass this judgment on yourselves that you are unworthy of eternal life and out of your own mouth you will be judged. [Now] behold, we turn to the Gentiles (the heathen).
And so the Word of the Lord [concerning eternal salvation through Christ] scattered and spread throughout the whole region.
For the Athenians, all of them, and the foreign residents and visitors among them spent all their leisure time in nothing except telling or hearing something newer than the last--
However, from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the church [to come to him there].
And one Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, well spoken of by all the Jews who resided there,
After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders [of the worship] of the synagogue sent to them saying, Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation or consolation or encouragement for the people, say it.
For I never shrank or kept back or fell short from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan and counsel of God.
You yourselves know personally that these hands ministered to my own needs and those [of the persons] who were with me.
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from doing manual labor for a livelihood [in order to go about the work of the ministry]?
For in the Law of Moses it is written, You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the corn. Is it [only] for oxen that God cares?
For such men are false apostles [spurious, counterfeits], deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles (special messengers) of Christ (the Messiah).
Now [note carefully what I am telling you, for it is the truth], I write this as if I were standing before the bar of God; I do not lie.
And Paul replied, Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you, but also all who are listening to me today, might become such as I am, except for these chains.
I, Paul, [add this final] greeting with my own hand.
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Ministering servants [not heads of parties] through whom you believed, even as the Lord appointed to each his task: