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Acts 24:14

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But I will tell you this: I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way of Jesus. The others say that the Way of Jesus is not the right way. But I believe everything that is taught in the law of Moses and that is written in the books of the Prophets.

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and asked him to write letters to the synagogues in the city of Damascus. Then if Saul found any followers of Christ’s Way, men or women, he would arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem.

But God has a way to make people right with him without the law, and he has now shown us that way which the law and the prophets told us about.

Paul and the people chose a day for a meeting and on that day many more of the Jews met with Paul at the place he was staying. He spoke to them all day long. Using the law of Moses and the prophets’ writings, he explained the kingdom of God, and he tried to persuade them to believe these things about Jesus.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, gave glory to Jesus, his servant. But you handed him over to be killed. Pilate decided to let him go free, but you told Pilate you did not want Jesus.

But God has helped me, and so I stand here today, telling all people, small and great, what I have seen. But I am saying only what Moses and the prophets said would happen—

We have found this man to be a troublemaker, stirring up his people everywhere in the world. He is a leader of the Nazarene group.

I thank God as I always mention you in my prayers, day and night. I serve him, doing what I know is right as my ancestors did.

King Agrippa, do you believe what the prophets wrote? I know you believe.”

Then I bowed down at the angel’s feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Do not worship me! I am a servant like you and your brothers and sisters who have the message of Jesus. Worship God, because the message about Jesus is the spirit that gives all prophecy.”

The Spirit of Christ was in the prophets, telling in advance about the sufferings of Christ and about the glory that would follow those sufferings. The prophets tried to learn about what the Spirit was showing them, when those things would happen, and what the world would be like at that time.

After a first and second warning, avoid someone who causes arguments.

worshiping gods, doing witchcraft, hating, making trouble, being jealous, being angry, being selfish, making people angry with each other, causing divisions among people,

(It is necessary to have differences among you so that it may be clear which of you really have God’s approval.)

Now I am on trial because I hope for the promise that God made to our ancestors.

Felix already understood much about the Way of Jesus. He stopped the trial and said, “When commander Lysias comes here, I will decide your case.”

He said, ‘The God of our ancestors chose you long ago to know his plan, to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from him.

But some of them became stubborn. They refused to believe and said evil things about the Way of Jesus before all the people. So Paul left them, and taking the followers with him, he went to the school of a man named Tyrannus. There Paul talked with people every day

After the law of Moses and the writings of the prophets were read, the leaders of the synagogue sent a message to Paul and Barnabas: “Brothers, if you have any message that will encourage the people, please speak.”

All the prophets say it is true that all who believe in Jesus will be forgiven of their sins through Jesus’ name.”

‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to shake with fear and was afraid to look.

You killed Jesus by hanging him on a cross. But God, the God of our ancestors, raised Jesus up from the dead!

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the man that Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about him. He is Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”

He said to them, “Remember when I was with you before? I said that everything written about me must happen—everything in the law of Moses, the books of the prophets, and the Psalms.”

Then starting with what Moses and all the prophets had said about him, Jesus began to explain everything that had been written about himself in the Scriptures.

But Abraham said, ‘They have the law of Moses and the writings of the prophets; let them learn from them.’

“The law of Moses and the writings of the prophets were preached until John came. Since then the Good News about the kingdom of God is being told, and everyone tries to enter it by force.

He said that he would do this through his holy prophets who lived long ago:

All the law and the writings of the prophets depend on these two commands.”

“All those who stand before others and say they believe in me, I will say before my Father in heaven that they belong to me.

“Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets.

Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob, so that he can teach us his ways, and we can obey his teachings.” His teachings will go out from Jerusalem, the word of the Lord from that city.

They make promises by the idol in Samaria and say, ‘As surely as the god of Dan lives … ’ and, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives, we promise . . . ’ So they will fall and never get up again.”

I will discuss your rules with kings and will not be ashamed.

Lord, you are the God of our ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Make your people want to serve you always, and make them want to obey you.

God also said to Moses, “This is what you should tell the people: ‘The Lord is the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He sent me to you.’ This will always be my name, by which people from now on will know me.

And during that time, there was some serious trouble in Ephesus about the Way of Jesus.

But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisee group came forward and said, “The non-Jewish believers must be circumcised. They must be told to obey the law of Moses.”

This is what Paul said to defend himself: “I have done nothing wrong against the law, against the Temple, or against Caesar.”

“All my people know about my whole life, how I lived from the beginning in my own country and later in Jerusalem.

But we want to hear your ideas, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this religious group.”

God, whom I serve with my whole heart by telling the Good News about his Son, knows that I always mention you




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