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Acts 1:15

James Moffatt - New Testament

Now during these days Peter stood up among the brothers (there was a crowd of about a hundred and twenty persons all together).

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after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died;

At that hour a great earthquake took place, a tenth of the City was destroyed, and seven thousand souls perished in the earthquake: the rest were awestruck, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

They glorified God when they heard it. Then they said to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, all of them ardent upholders of the Law.

This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?"

Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father,

but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."

He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man takes and sows in his field.

So he invited them in and entertained them. Next day he was up and off with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa;

Now the apostles and the brothers in Judaea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

The Spirit told me to have no hesitation in accompanying them; these six brothers went with me as well, and we entered the man's house.

and on finding him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught considerable numbers. It was at Antioch too that the disciples were originally called "Christians."

So the disciples put aside money, as each of them was able to afford it, for a contribution to be sent to the brothers in Judaea.

He beckoned to them to keep quiet and then described to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Report this to James," he said, "and to the brothers." And off he went to another place.

[Move to follow vs 3] But the refractory Jews stirred up and exasperated the feeling of the Gentiles against the brothers.

But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

The church sped them on their journey, and they passed through both Phoenicia and Syria informing the brothers, to the great joy of all, that the Gentiles were turning to God.

He had a good reputation among the brothers at Lystra and Iconium;

So they left the prison and went to Lydia's house, where they saw the brothers and encouraged them; then they departed.

but as they failed to find Paul and Silas they haled Jason and some of the brothers before the politarchs, yelling, "These upsetters of the whole world have come here too!

Then the brothers at once sent off Paul and Silas by night to Beroea. When they arrived there, they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue,

The brothers then sent off Paul at once on his way to the sea, while Silas and Timotheus remained where they were.

After waiting on for a number of days Paul said goodbye to the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. (As the latter was under a vow, he had his head shaved at Cenchreae.)

As he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to give him a welcome. And on his arrival he proved of great service to those who by God's grace had believed,

By sailing from Tyre to Ptolemais we completed our voyage; we saluted the brothers, spent a day with them,

The brothers welcomed us gladly on our arrival at Jerusalem.

as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

where we came across some of the brotherhood, who invited us to stay a week with them. In this way we reached Rome.




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