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But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having heard [it], rent their garments, and rushed out to the crowd, crying
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and saying, Men, why do ye these things? *We* also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;
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who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,
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though indeed he did not leave himself without witness, doing good, and giving to you from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
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And saying these things, they with difficulty kept the crowds from sacrificing to them.
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But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.
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But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.
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And having announced the glad tidings to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,
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establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
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And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
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And having passed through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia,