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After lengthy debate, Kefa got up and said to them, "Brothers, you yourselves know that a good while back, God chose me from among you to be the one by whose mouth the Goyim should hear the message of the Good News and come to trust.
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And God, who knows the heart, bore them witness by giving the Ruach HaKodesh to them, just as he did to us;
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that is, he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their heart by trust.
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So why are you putting God to the test now by placing a yoke on the neck of the talmidim which neither our fathers nor we have had the strength to bear?
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No, it is through the love and kindness of the Lord Yeshua that we trust and are delivered-and it's the same with them."
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Then the whole assembly kept still as they listened to Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul tell what signs and miracles God had done through them among the Gentiles.
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Ya'akov broke the silence to reply. "Brothers," he said, "hear what I have to say.
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Shim'on has told in detail what God did when he first began to show his concern for taking from among the Goyim a people to bear his name.
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And the words of the Prophets are in complete harmony with this for it is written,
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'"After this, I will return; and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David. I will rebuild its ruins, I will restore it,
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so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, that is, all the Goyim who have been called by my name,"