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Ask a Questionstrengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that very hour.
On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.
Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea and that he himself intended to go there shortly.
When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.
As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, "May I say something to you?" And he said, "Do you know Greek?
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
And I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles - to whom I am sending you
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.
When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed.