<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the high priest said, &#8220;Are these things true?&#8221;<n id="1" />

So Paul left the Areopagus.<n id="1" />

In this way the word of the Lord<n id="1" /> continued to grow in power<n id="2" /> and to prevail.<n id="3" />p>

The Jews also joined in the verbal attack,<n id="1" /> claiming<n id="2" /> that these things were true.p>

But the things God foretold<n id="1" /> long ago through<n id="2" /> all the prophets &#8211; that his Christ<n id="3" /> would suffer &#8211; he has fulfilled in this way.

Then Paul<n id="1" /> went back upstairs,<n id="2" /> and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them<n id="3" /> a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God<n id="1" /> that it will be just as I have been told.

There<n id="1" /> we found<n id="2" /> some brothers<n id="3" /> and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.<n id="4" />

But God spoke as follows: &#8216;Your<n id="1" /> <b><i>descendants will be foreignersi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred yearsi>b>.<n id="3" />

But they said to her, &#8220;You&#8217;ve lost your mind!&#8221;<n id="1" /> But she kept insisting that it was Peter,<n id="2" /> and they kept saying,<n id="3" /> &#8220;It is his angel!&#8221;<n id="4" />

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.

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus<n id="1" /> from the dead, never<n id="2" /> again to be<n id="3" /> in a state of decay, God<n id="4" /> has spoken in this way: &#8216;<b><i>I will give youi>b><n id="5" /> <b><i>the holy and trustworthy promisesi>b><n id="6" /> <b><i>made to Davidi>b>.&#8217;<n id="7" />

For this<n id="1" /> is what the Lord has commanded us: &#8216;<i>I have appointedi><n id="2" /> <i>you to be a lighti><n id="3" /> <i>for the Gentiles, to bring salvationi><n id="4" /> <i>to the ends of the earth.i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The same thing happened in Iconium<n id="1" /> when Paul and Barnabas<n id="2" /> went into the Jewish synagogue<n id="3" /> and spoke in such a way that a large group<n id="4" /> of both Jews and Greeks believed.

the commanding officer<n id="1" /> ordered Paul<n id="2" /> to be brought back into the barracks.<n id="3" /> He told them<n id="4" /> to interrogate Paul<n id="5" /> by beating him with a lash<n id="6" /> so that he could find out the reason the crowd<n id="7" /> was shouting at Paul<n id="8" /> in this way.

After the crew<n id="1" /> had hoisted it aboard,<n id="2" /> they used supports<n id="3" /> to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground<n id="4" /> on the Syrtis,<n id="5" /> they lowered the sea anchor,<n id="6" /> thus letting themselves be driven along.

and the rest were to follow,<n id="1" /> some on planks<n id="2" /> and some on pieces of the ship.<n id="3" /> And in this way<n id="4" /> all were brought safely to land.p>

and said, &#8220;Men of Galilee, why do you stand here<n id="1" /> looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven<n id="2" /> will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.&#8221;p>

Then God<n id="1" /> gave Abraham<n id="2" /> the covenant<n id="3" /> of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old,<n id="4" /> and Isaac became the father of<n id="5" /> Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.<n id="6" />

Now the passage of scripture the man<n id="1" /> was reading was this:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>He was led like a sheep to slaughter,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>so he didi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>not open his mouthb>.i>p>