Paul and Barnabas at Antioch in Pisidia
13 Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And
1John left them and returned
2to Jerusalem,
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but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And
3on the Sabbath day
4they went into the synagogue and sat down.
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After
5the reading from
6the Law and the Prophets,
7the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any
8word of encouragement for the people, say it."
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So Paul stood up, and
9motioning with his hand said: "Men of Israel and
10you who fear God, listen.
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11The God of this people Israel
12chose our fathers and
13made the people great
14during their stay in the land of Egypt, and
15with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
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And for about
16forty years
17he put up with them in the wilderness.
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And
18after destroying
19seven nations in the land of Canaan,
20he gave them their land as an inheritance.
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All this took about 450 years. And after that
21he gave them judges until
22Samuel the prophet.
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Then
23they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul
24the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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And
25when he had removed him,
26he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said,
27'I have found in David the son of Jesse
28a man after my heart,
29who will do all my will.'
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30Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel
31a Savior, Jesus,
32as he promised.
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Before his coming,
33John had proclaimed
34a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
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And as John was finishing his course,
35he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'
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"Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you
36who fear God, to us has been sent
37the message of
38this salvation.
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For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because
39they did not recognize him nor understand
40the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath,
41fulfilled them by condemning him.
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And
42though they found in him no guilt worthy of death,
43they asked Pilate to have him executed.
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And when
44they had carried out all that was written of him,
45they took him down from
46the tree and laid him in a tomb.
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But
47God raised him from the dead,
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and for many days
48he appeared to those
49who had come up with him
50from Galilee to Jerusalem,
51who are now
52his witnesses to the people.
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And we bring you the good news
53that what God promised to the fathers,
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54this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm,
55"'You are my Son, today I have begotten you.'
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And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, "'I will give you
56the holy and sure blessings of David.'
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Therefore he says also in another psalm,
57"'You will not let your Holy One see corruption.'
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For David, after he had
58served the purpose of God in his own generation,
59fell asleep and
60was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
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but he whom
61God raised up did not see corruption.
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Let it be known to you therefore, brothers,
62that through this man
63forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
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and by him
64everyone who believes is freed from everything
65from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
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Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about:
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66"'Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.'"
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As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath.
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And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and
67devout
68converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them
69to continue in
70the grace of God.
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The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.
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71But
72when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with
73jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul,
74reviling him.
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And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God
75be spoken first to you.
76Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves
77unworthy of eternal life, behold, we
78are turning to the Gentiles.
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79For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,
80"'I have made you
81a light for the Gentiles, that you may
82bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"
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And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and
83glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
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And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.
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84But the Jews incited the devout
85women of high standing and the leading men of the city,
86stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and
87drove them out of their district.
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But they
88shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.
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And the disciples were filled
89with joy and
90with the Holy Spirit.