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[As for] the message that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ--this one is Lord of all--
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you know the thing that happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism that John proclaimed:
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Jesus of Nazareth--how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.
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And we [are] witnesses of all [the things] that he did both in the land of the Judeans and in Jerusalem, whom they also executed [by] hanging [him] on a tree.
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God raised this one up on the third day and granted [that] he should become visible,
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not to all the people but to us who had been chosen beforehand by God [as] witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
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And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this one is the one appointed by God [as] judge of the living and of the dead.
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To this one all the prophets testify, [that] through his name everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins."
The Holy Spirit Given to Gentiles
44 [While] Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who were listening to the message.
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And those believers from the circumcision who had accompanied Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,
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for they heard them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter said,