so that times of refreshing<n id="1" /> may come from the presence of the Lord,<n id="2" /> and so that he may send the Messiah<n id="3" /> appointed<n id="4" /> for you &#8211; that is, Jesus.

and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.p>

They did so,<n id="1" /> sending their financial aid<n id="2" /> to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.p>

Therefore we are sending<n id="1" /> Judas and Silas<n id="2" /> who will tell you these things themselves in person.<n id="3" />

After<n id="1" /> they had spent some time there,<n id="2" /> they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

So Joseph sent a message<n id="1" /> and invited<n id="2" /> his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people<n id="3" /> in all.

But get up,<n id="1" /> go down, and accompany them without hesitation,<n id="2" /> because I have sent them.&#8221;

You know<n id="1" /> the message<n id="2" /> he sent to the people<n id="3" /> of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace<n id="4" /> through<n id="5" /> Jesus Christ<n id="6" /> (he is Lord<n id="7" /> of all) &#8211;

At daybreak<n id="1" /> the magistrates<n id="2" /> sent their police officers,<n id="3" /> saying, &#8220;Release those men.&#8221;

I will rescue<n id="1" /> you from your own people<n id="2" /> and from the Gentiles, to whom<n id="3" /> I am sending you

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore be advised<n id="1" /> that this salvation from God<n id="2" /> has been sent to the Gentiles;<n id="3" /> they<n id="4" /> will listen!&#8221;p>

God raised up<n id="1" /> his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning<n id="2" /> each one of you from your iniquities.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Now when the apostles in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> heard that Samaria had accepted the word<n id="2" /> of God, they sent<n id="3" /> Peter and John to them.

At that very moment,<n id="1" /> three men sent to me from Caesarea<n id="2" /> approached<n id="3" /> the house where we were staying.<n id="4" />

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;The magistrates have sent orders<n id="2" /> to release you. So come out now and go in peace.&#8221;<n id="3" />

So after sending<n id="1" /> two of his assistants,<n id="2" /> Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia,<n id="3" /> he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.<n id="4" />p>

But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided<n id="1" /> that they should avoid<n id="2" /> meat that has been sacrificed to idols<n id="3" /> and blood and what has been strangled<n id="4" /> and sexual immorality.&#8221;

<b><i>I have certainly seen the sufferingi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>of my people who are in Egypt andi>b> <i><b>have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue themb>.i><n id="2" /> <b><i>Nowi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>come, I will send you to Egypti>b>.&#8217;<n id="4" />

This same<n id="1" /> Moses they had rejected, saying, &#8216;<b><i>Who made you a ruler and judge?i>b>&#8217;<n id="2" /> God sent as both ruler and deliverer<n id="3" /> through the hand of the angel<n id="4" /> who appeared to him in the bush.

Because Lydda<n id="1" /> was near Joppa, when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him and urged him, &#8220;Come to us without delay.&#8221;<n id="2" />