He thought his own people<n id="1" /> would understand that God was delivering them<n id="2" /> through him,<n id="3" /> but they did not understand.<n id="4" />

The next day Moses<n id="1" /> saw two men<n id="2" /> fighting, and tried to make peace between<n id="3" /> them, saying, &#8216;Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?&#8217;

Then he fell<n id="1" /> to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, &#8220;Lord, do not hold this sin against them!&#8221;<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> he had said this, he died.<n id="4" />

<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,

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.

But the magician Elymas<n id="1" /> (for that is the way his name is translated)<n id="2" /> opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul<n id="3" /> away from the faith.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled<n id="1" /> forty years.

but Paul insisted<n id="1" /> that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia<n id="2" /> and had not accompanied them in the work.

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" />

Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue,<n id="1" /> as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed<n id="2" /> them from the scriptures,

But some people<n id="1" /> joined him<n id="2" /> and believed. Among them<n id="3" /> were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus,<n id="4" /> a woman<n id="5" /> named Damaris, and others with them.p>

and when Paul placed<n id="1" /> his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came<n id="2" /> upon them, and they began to speak<n id="3" /> in tongues and to prophesy.<n id="4" />

But the evil spirit replied to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I know about Jesus<n id="2" /> and I am acquainted with<n id="3" /> Paul, but who are you?&#8221;<n id="4" />

We continued the voyage from Tyre<n id="1" /> and arrived at Ptolemais,<n id="2" /> and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.

other than<n id="1" /> this one thing<n id="2" /> I shouted out while I stood before<n id="3" /> them: &#8216;I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

I punished<n id="1" /> them often in all the synagogues<n id="2" /> and tried to force<n id="3" /> them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged<n id="4" /> at them, I went to persecute<n id="5" /> them even in foreign cities.p>

<p class="bodytext">When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven<n id="1" /> across the Adriatic Sea,<n id="2" /> about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Therefore God gave them over<n id="1" /> in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor<n id="2" /> their bodies among themselves.<n id="3" />

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>And in the very placei>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>where it was said to themb>,i> &#8216;<i><b>You are not my peopleb>,i>&#8217;p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>there they will be calledi>b> &#8216;<i><b>sons of the living Godb>.i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

as it is written,p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>&#8220;God gave them a spirit of stuporb>,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>eyes that would not see and ears that would not hearb>,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>to this very day.&#8221;i>b><n id="1" />p>