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Acts 11:27

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During this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

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Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

Because of this, God in his wisdom said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.’

Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.

From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.

So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter.

Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers.

When he landed at Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church and then went down to Antioch.

“ ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

We sought out the disciples there and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.

He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.

to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.

The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets.

When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,




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