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Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.
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But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath, and sat down.
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And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.
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Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.
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And about the time of forty years he suffered their manners in the wilderness.
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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
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And after that he gave [to them] judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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And afterward they desired a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
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And when he had removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king: to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfill all my will.
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Of this man's offspring hath God, according to [his] promise, raised up to Israel a Savior, Jesus: