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Acts 2:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

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Peter,  an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those chosen, living as exiles  dispersed  abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  chosen


John: To the seven churches in Asia. Grace and peace  to you from  the one who is, who was, and who is to come,  and from the seven spirits  , before his throne,


You know that all those in the province of Asia  have deserted me,  including Phygelus and Hermogenes.


where he found a Jew named Aquila,  a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,


They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia; they had been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.


This went on for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks,  heard the word of the Lord.


Opposition arose, however, from some members of the Freedmen’s Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, and they began to argue with Stephen.


I saw the vision, and as I watched, I was in the fortress city of Susa,  in the province of Elam.  I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal.


On that day  the Lord will extend his hand a second time to recover the remnant of his people who survive #– #from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west.


In the ninth year of Hoshea,  the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported  the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.


The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand, he went to Aram-naharaim, to Nahor’s town.


In those days King Amraphel of Shinar,  King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam,  and King Tidal of Goiim


saying, ‘Write   on a scroll   what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.’


We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia.  We were completely overwhelmed #– #beyond our strength   #– #so that we even despaired  of life itself.


The churches of Asia  send you greetings.  Aquila and Priscilla  send you greetings warmly in the Lord, along with the church that meets in their home.


Greet also the church that meets in their home.  Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who is the first convert  , to Christ from Asia.  ,


When they came to him, he said to them, ‘You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,


For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, for the day of Pentecost.


Even some of the provincial officials of Asia, who were his friends, sent word to him, pleading with him not to venture  into the amphitheatre.


Not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin #– #the very one all of Asia and the world worship.’


‘Brothers and fathers,’ he replied, ‘listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,


The two-horned ram  that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.


A troubling vision is declared to me: ‘The treacherous one acts treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning.’


But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media  that a scroll was found with this record written on it:


When the Ammonites realised  they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent thirty-five tonnes  of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.


The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them to King Cushan-rishathaim  of Aram-naharaim,  , and the Israelites served him for eight years.


This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt, and because Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim was hired to curse you.


Shem’s sons  were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.


“Peres”  , means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’


How is it that each of us can hear them in our own native language?


He was accompanied  by Sopater son of Pyrrhus  from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy,  and Tychicus  and Trophimus  from the province of Asia.


When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd, and seized him,


While I was doing this, some Jews from Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar.


When we had boarded a ship of Adramyttium, we put to sea, intending to sail to ports along the coast of Asia. Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, was with us.





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