These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
And Haman said unto king Achashverosh, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their Laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's Laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
And YY shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other elohim, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Shimon Kefa, a servant and an emissary of Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of Elohim and our Saviour Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach:
That at that time ye were without Moshiach, being aliens from the commonwealth of Yisrael, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without Elohim in the world:
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had Commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
Saying, I am Alef and Tav, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven Congregations which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Then there arose certain of the Synagogue, which is called the Synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
Now the names of the twelve emissaries are these; The first, Shimon, who is called Kefa, and Andrew his brother; Yaakov -Ben-Zavdai, and Yochanan his brother;
And Y'shuw`a, walking by the sea of Galil, saw two brethren, Shimon called Kefa, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.