Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted<n id="1" /> the word of God.<n id="2" />

Even some of the provincial authorities<n id="1" /> who were his friends sent<n id="2" /> a message<n id="3" /> to him, urging him not to venture<n id="4" /> into the theater.

Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand<n id="1" /> the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

So they began to leave,<n id="1" /> unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: &#8220;The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors<n id="2" /> through the prophet Isaiah