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Acts 1:15

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

After a few days there was a meeting of the believers. There were about 120 of them. Peter stood up and said,

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After that Christ appeared to more than 500 other believers at the same time. Most of them are still living today, but some have died.

At that same time there was a great earthquake. A tenth of the city was destroyed. And 7000 people were killed in the earthquake. Those who did not die were very afraid. They gave glory to the God of heaven.

When the leaders heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul, “Brother, you can see that thousands of Jews have become believers, but they think it is very important to obey the Law of Moses.

So a story spread among the followers of Jesus. They were saying that this follower would not die. But Jesus did not say he would not die. He only said, “Maybe I want him to live until I come. That should not matter to you.”

“But you have a few people in your group there in Sardis who have kept themselves clean. They will walk with me. They will wear white clothes, because they are worthy.

“I can assure you that whoever believes in me will do the same things I have done. And they will do even greater things than I have done, because I am going to the Father.

I have prayed that you will not lose your faith! Help your brothers be stronger when you come back to me.”

Then Jesus told the people another story: “God’s kingdom is like a mustard seed that a man plants in his field.

Peter asked the men to come in and stay for the night. The next day Peter got ready and went away with the three men. Some of the believers from Joppa went with him.

The apostles and the believers in Judea heard that non-Jewish people had accepted God’s teaching too.

The Spirit told me to go with them without wondering if it was all right. These six brothers here also went with me, and we went to the house of Cornelius.

When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. They stayed there a whole year. Every time the church came together, Barnabas and Saul met with them and taught many people. It was in Antioch that the followers of the Lord Jesus were called “Christ-followers” for the first time.

The Lord’s followers decided that they would each send as much as they could to help their brothers and sisters who lived in Judea.

Peter made a sign with his hand to tell them to be quiet. He explained to them how the Lord led him out of the jail. He said, “Tell James and the other brothers what happened.” Then he left and went to another place.

But some of the Jews did not believe. They said things that caused the non-Jewish people to be angry and turn against the believers.

Then some men came to Antioch from Judea and began teaching the non-Jewish believers: “You cannot be saved if you are not circumcised as Moses taught us.”

The church helped them get ready to leave on their trip. The men went through the countries of Phoenicia and Samaria, where they told all about how the non-Jewish people had turned to the true God. This made all the believers very happy.

The believers in the cities of Lystra and Iconium had only good things to say about him.

But when Paul and Silas came out of the jail, they went to Lydia’s house. They saw some of the believers there and encouraged them. Then they left.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the other believers to the city leaders. The people shouted, “These men have made trouble everywhere in the world, and now they have come here too!

That same night the believers sent Paul and Silas to another city named Berea. When they arrived there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

So the believers immediately sent Paul away to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.

Paul stayed with the believers for many days. Then he left and sailed for Syria. Priscilla and Aquila were also with him. At Cenchrea Paul cut off his hair, because he had made a promise to God.

Apollos wanted to go to Achaia. So the believers in Ephesus helped him. They wrote a letter to the Lord’s followers in Achaia and asked them to accept Apollos. When he arrived there, he was a great help to those who had believed in Jesus because of God’s grace.

We continued our trip from Tyre and went to the city of Ptolemais. We greeted the believers there and stayed with them one day.

The brothers and sisters in Jerusalem were very happy to see us.

“The high priest and the whole council of older Jewish leaders can tell you that this is true. One time these leaders gave me some letters. The letters were to the Jewish brothers in the city of Damascus. I was going there to arrest the followers of Jesus and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

We found some believers there, who asked us to stay with them a week. Finally, we came to Rome.




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