Go, eat your bread with enjoyment and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has long ago approved what you do.
Acts 9:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 and after taking some food, he regained his strength. For several days he was with the disciples in Damascus, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And after he took some food, he was strengthened. For several days [afterward] he remained with the disciples at Damascus. American Standard Version (1901) and he took food and was strengthened. And he was certain days with the disciples that were at Damascus. Common English Bible After eating, he regained his strength. He stayed with the disciples in Damascus for several days. Catholic Public Domain Version And when he had taken a meal, he was strengthened. Now he was with the disciples who were at Damascus for some days. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when he had taken meat, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples that were at Damascus, for some days. |
Go, eat your bread with enjoyment and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has long ago approved what you do.
and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”
The disciples determined that, according to their ability, each would send relief to the brothers and sisters living in Judea;
but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout the countryside of Judea, and also to the gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds consistent with repentance.
And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and his sight was restored. Then he got up and was baptized,
When he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.
Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, “Please come to us without delay.”
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterward I returned to Damascus.
they also gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.