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For such is the Lord's command to us. "`I have placed Thee,' He says of Christ, `as a light to the Gentiles, in order that Thou mayest be a Saviour as far as the remotest parts of the earth.'"
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The Gentiles listened with delight and extolled the Lord's Message; and all who were pre-destined to the Life of the Ages believed.
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So the Lord's Message spread through the whole district.
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But the Jews influenced the gentlewomen of rank who worshipped with them, and also the leading men in the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of the district.
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But they shook off the dust from their feet as a protest against them and came to Iconium;
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and as for the disciples, they were more and more filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.