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So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now all of us are here in the presence of God to hear everything the Lord has ordered you to say."
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Then Kefa addressed them: "I now understand that God does not play favorites,
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but that whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him, no matter what people he belongs to.
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"Here is the message that he sent to the sons of Isra'el announcing shalom through Yeshua the Messiah, who is Lord of everything.
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You know what has been going on throughout Y'hudah, starting from the Galil after the immersion that Yochanan proclaimed;
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how God anointed Yeshua from Natzeret with the Ruach HaKodesh and with power; how Yeshua went about doing good and healing all the people oppressed by the Adversary, because God was with him.
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"As for us, we are witnesses of everything he did, both in the Judean countryside j
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but and in Yerushalayim. They did away with him by hanging him on a stake;God raised him up on the third day and let him be seen,
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not by all the people, but by witnesses God had previously chosen, that is, by us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen again from the dead.
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"Then he commanded us to proclaim and attest to the Jewish people that this man has been appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.
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All the prophets bear witness to him, that everyone who puts his trust in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."