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Acts 1:15

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In those days there were about 120 believers. Peter stood up among them to speak.

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and after that, he appeared to more than 500 brothers and sisters at the same time. (Most of them are still living, although some have died.)

At that same time there was a powerful earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. In the earthquake, 7,000 people were killed. Those who lived through it were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

When they heard this, they praised God. But then they said to Paul, “Brother, you see that thousands of Jews have become believers. All of them try very hard to obey the law.

Because Jesus said this, a rumor spread among the believers that the disciple Jesus loved wouldn’t die. But Jesus didn’t say he wouldn’t die. He only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what does that matter to you?”

‘But you have a few people there in Sardis who haven’t gotten their clothes dirty. They will walk with me dressed in white, because they deserve to.

Truly I tell you, anyone who believes in me will do the works that I’ve been doing. In fact, they’ll do even greater things, because I’m going to the Father.

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. When you have turned back, help your brothers to be strong.”

Jesus told the crowd another story. He said, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in a field.

Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests. The next day Peter went with the three men. Some believers from Joppa went with him.

The apostles and believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received God’s word.

The Holy Spirit told me to go without any hesitation. These six believers here went with me. When we entered the house of the man who’d sent for me,

When he found him, he brought him back with him to Antioch. For a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught large numbers of people. It was there at Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

The disciples decided to send help to the brothers and sisters living in Judea. All of them gave as much as they could,

Peter motioned with his hands for them to be quiet. Then he explained how the Lord had freed him from prison. “Tell James and the other brothers and sisters about this,” he said, and then he went to a different place.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up some of the other Gentiles and turned them against the believers.

Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and started teaching the believers, “If you aren’t circumcised the way Moses commanded, you can’t be saved.”

The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had turned to God. This news made all the believers very glad.

The believers at Lystra and Iconium said such good things about Timothy

So Paul and Silas were freed, and they went to Lydia’s house. They met with the brothers and sisters there and encouraged them. Then they left Philippi.

But they didn’t find them there, so they dragged Jason and some of the other believers to the city officials. “Those men who’ve upset the entire world have now come here!” they shouted.

As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. When they arrived there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

Right away the believers sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.

Paul stayed in Corinth for some time after that. When he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, Priscilla and Aquila went with him. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae, the harbor that served Corinth. He did this because he’d made a vow to God.

Apollos then wanted to go to Achaia, and the brothers and sisters encouraged him to do that. They wrote to the disciples there and asked them to welcome him. When he arrived, he was a great help to those who by God’s grace had become believers.

Continuing on from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais. There we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day.

When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters welcomed us warmly.

The high priest and the whole Council could tell you this themselves. I even asked them to write official letters to their friends in Damascus so I could go there and bring Jesus’ followers as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.

There we found some believers, who invited us to spend a week with them. At last we came to Rome.




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