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Acts 24:14

James Moffatt - New Testament

I certainly admit to you that I worship our fathers' God according to the methods of what they call a 'sect'; but I believe all that is written in the Law and in the prophets,

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and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem.

But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,

So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place.

The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.

I render thanks to God, the God of my fathers whom I worship with a pure conscience, as I mention you constantly in my prayers.

King Agrippa, you believe the prophets? I know you do."

Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).

the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come;

After a first and a second warning have no more to do with a factious person;

idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit,

There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

To-day I am standing my trial for hoping in the promise made by God to our fathers,

As Felix had a pretty accurate knowledge of the Way, he remanded Paul, telling the Jews, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case."

Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One, and to hear him speak with his own lips.

But as some grew stubborn and disobedient, decrying the Way in presence of the multitude, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued his argument every day from eleven to four in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

All the prophets testify that everyone who believes in him is to receive remission of sins through his Name."

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you murdered by hanging him on a gibbet.

he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets — it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

'They have got Moses and the prophets,' said Abraham, 'they can listen to them.'

The Law and the prophets lasted till John; since then the good news of the Realm of God is preached, and anyone presses in.

as he promised of old by the lips of his prophets

The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."

Everyone who will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven;

Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened.

But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and said, "Gentiles must be circumcised and told to observe the law of Moses."

Paul's defence was, "I have committed no offence against the Law of the Jews, against the temple, or against Caesar."

How I lived from my youth up among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early career of mine, is known to all the Jews.

We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."

God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers,




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