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Acts 11:29

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So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could.

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and each leader gave as much as he could. The total of their gifts came to 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.

At the meeting I said to them, “We are doing all we can to redeem our Jewish relatives who have had to sell themselves to pagan foreigners, but you are selling them back into slavery again. How often must we redeem them?” And they had nothing to say in their defense.

The servant with two bags of silver also went to work and earned two more.

and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration.

During this time, when about 120 believers were together in one place, Peter stood up and addressed them.

Soon the news reached the apostles and other believers in Judea that the Gentiles had received the word of God.

When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians.)

And the believers were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

But as the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

where they strengthened the believers. They encouraged them to continue in the faith, reminding them that we must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.

“After several years away, I returned to Jerusalem with money to aid my people and to offer sacrifices to God.

There were no needy people among them, because those who owned land or houses would sell them

But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. The Greek-speaking believers complained about the Hebrew-speaking believers, saying that their widows were being discriminated against in the daily distribution of food.

Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength. Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for a few days.

So during the night, some of the other believers lowered him in a large basket through an opening in the city wall.

or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

Their only suggestion was that we keep on helping the poor, which I have always been eager to do.




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