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Acts 24:14

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It is true that I worship the God of our people as a follower of the Way of Jesus. They call it a cult, but everything I believe agrees with the Law and the Prophets.

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and asked him to write letters to the synagogues in Damascus. If he found any men and women there who belonged to the Way of Jesus, the letters would allow him to take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

But now we know we can be made right with God apart from the law, even though the Law and the Prophets are actually witnesses about this.

They arranged to meet with Paul on a certain day. When it came, even more of the Jewish leaders went to the place where he was staying. From morning until evening, he told them about the kingdom of God. He used the Law of Moses and the Prophets to try to convince them about Jesus.

The God of our fathers—of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has done this, to bring glory to his servant Jesus. But you handed Jesus over to be killed. You spoke against him when he was in Pilate’s court, even though Pilate had decided to let him go.

But God has helped me right up until this very moment. So I’m standing here and speaking about him to everyone, whether they’re kings or just ordinary people. I’ve been saying nothing different from what the prophets and Moses said would happen.

“We’ve found that this Paul is a troublemaker. Everywhere he goes in the world, riots break out among the Jews. He’s the leader of a cult called the Nazarenes.

I serve God, as did our people of long ago, with a clear conscience, and I thank God as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.

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

When I heard this, I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I’m God’s servant, just like you and your brothers and sisters who hold firmly to what Jesus taught. Worship God! The Spirit of prophecy tells the truth about Jesus.”

The Spirit of Christ in them was telling about the sufferings of the Messiah and the glory that would follow. They wanted to find out when and how this salvation would come.

If someone is causing divisions, warn them once, and then warn them again if you have to, but after that, don’t have anything to do with them.

idol-worship and witchcraft; hatred, fighting, jealousy, fits of anger, selfish ambition, arguments, cliques,

because those of you who are genuine are bound to stand out as different!

Today I’m on trial because of my hope in what God promised our people long ago.

Felix, who knew a lot about the Way of Jesus, said he wouldn’t make a decision right away. “When Lysias the commander over 1,000 soldiers comes,” he told Paul, “I will settle your case.”

“Then he said, ‘The God of our people has chosen you, and he wants you to know the plans he has for you, to see the Blameless One, and to hear his voice.

But some there wouldn’t listen, and they refused to believe. They said insulting things in public about the Way of Jesus. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and talked with people each day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

After someone read aloud from the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to Paul and his group. They said, “Brothers, do you have any words of instruction for the people? If you do, please speak.”

All the prophets speak about him and say that everyone who believes in him has their sins forgiven through his name.”

‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses shook with fear and didn’t dare to look.

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead, even though you killed him by nailing him to a cross.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We’ve found the one Moses wrote about in the Law. The prophets wrote about him too. It’s Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Jesus said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you. Everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must come true.”

Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the Scriptures, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets.

“Abraham replied, ‘They have the teachings of Moses and the Prophets. Let your brothers listen to them.’

“The Law and the Prophets were preached until John the Baptist came. Since then, the good news of God’s kingdom is being preached, and everyone is trying hard to enter the kingdom.

as the holy prophets long ago said he would.

Everything written in the Law and the Prophets is based on these two commandments.”

“If anyone tells others that they know me, I’ll tell my Father in heaven that I know them.

In everything, do to others what you would want them to do to you. That sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Then many people in Ephesus became very upset about the Way of Jesus.

Some of the believers who were Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles have to be circumcised and obey the law of Moses.”

Then Paul spoke up for himself. He said, “I haven’t done anything wrong against the law of the Jews or their temple, and I haven’t done anything wrong against Caesar.”

“The Jewish people all know how I’ve lived ever since I was a child, both when I was growing up in my own country and after I moved to Jerusalem.

But we want to hear what your ideas are, because we know that people everywhere are talking against your group.”

I serve God with my whole heart as I preach the good news about his Son. And God is my witness that I remember you constantly in my prayers.




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