But many of those who had listened to<n id="1" /> the message<n id="2" /> believed, and the number of the men<n id="3" /> came to about five thousand.p>

But the Jews who refused to believe<n id="1" /> stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds<n id="2" /> against the brothers.

but that we should write them a letter<n id="1" /> telling them to abstain<n id="2" /> from things defiled<n id="3" /> by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled<n id="4" /> and from blood.

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few<n id="1" /> prominent<n id="2" /> Greek women and men.

Our<n id="1" /> ancestors<n id="2" /> received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors,<n id="3" /> until the time<n id="4" /> of David.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now many miraculous signs<n id="1" /> and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By<n id="2" /> common consent<n id="3" /> they were all meeting together in Solomon&#8217;s Portico.<n id="4" />

But some men from the Synagogue<n id="1" /> of the Freedmen (as it was called),<n id="2" /> both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia,<n id="3" /> stood up and argued with Stephen.

<p class="bodytext">Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit<n id="1" /> was given through the laying on of the apostles&#8217; hands, offered them money,

When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius<n id="1" /> called two of his personal servants<n id="2" /> and a devout soldier from among those who served him,<n id="3" />

So Peter<n id="1" /> invited them in and entertained them as guests.p> <p class="bodytext">On the next day he got up and set out<n id="2" /> with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa<n id="3" /> accompanied him.

When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received<n id="1" /> by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported<n id="2" /> all the things God had done with them.<n id="3" />

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees<n id="1" /> who had believed stood up and said, &#8220;It is necessary<n id="2" /> to circumcise the Gentiles<n id="3" /> and to order them to observe<n id="4" /> the law of Moses.&#8221;p>

As they went through the towns,<n id="1" /> they passed on<n id="2" /> the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem<n id="3" /> for the Gentile believers<n id="4" /> to obey.<n id="5" />

serving the Lord with all humility<n id="1" /> and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots<n id="2" /> of the Jews.

Then you&#8217;re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion<n id="1" /> and led the four thousand men of the &#8216;Assassins&#8217;<n id="2" /> into the wilderness<n id="3" /> some time ago?&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>until I make your enemies a footstooli>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>for your feetb>.i>&#8221;&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

None of the rest dared to join them,<n id="1" /> but the people held them in high honor.<n id="2" />

They stood these men before the apostles, who prayed<n id="1" /> and placed<n id="2" /> their hands on them.

So after they shook<n id="1" /> the dust off their feet<n id="2" /> in protest against them, they went to Iconium.<n id="3" />

The<n id="1" /> words of the prophets agree<n id="2" /> with this, as it is written,p>