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Acts
Feb 12, 2008 19:37:46 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Feb 12, 2008 19:37:46 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 16: 6-10: Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia
6 And they went through Phrygia and the Galatian reagion commanded by the holy spirit to speak the word in Asia: 7 and going by way of Mysia they tried to go to Bithynia, and the spirit of Yeshua didn’t let then: 8 and passing through Mysia they set sail for Troy. 9 And through [the] night visions were seen by Paul, some Macedonian man was standing and calling him and saying, "Sail across to Macedonia and help us." 10 And as he saw the vision, immediately we tried to go away to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to tell them the good news.
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Acts
Feb 14, 2008 17:49:17 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Feb 14, 2008 17:49:17 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 16: 11-15: The Conversion of Lydia
11 And setting sail from Troy we sailed straight for Samothrace, and on the next day to Nea Polis 12 from there to Philippi, which is a city [in] the first section of Macedonia, a colony. And we were in this city going through for some days. 13 And on the day of the sabbath we went out of the gate beside the river where we understood there was a (place of) prayer, and sitting down we spoke to the women who came. 14 And a certain woman by the name of Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyateira, a God-fearer, was listening, whose heart the lord opened to pray to those being spoken to by Paul. 15 And as she was baptized, and her house, she called saying, "If you judge me to be faithful to the lord, enter my house and stay:" and she persuaded us.
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Acts
Feb 23, 2008 10:51:57 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Feb 23, 2008 10:51:57 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 16: 16-40: The Imprisonment at Philippi
16 And it happened as we were going to the place of prayer that a certain servant girl having a python spirit met us, who made a lot of profit for her masters by prophesying. 17 This one, following Paul and us around, shouted saying, “These men are slaves of the most high God, who are announcing to you the way of salvation.” 18 And she did this for many days. And Paul was very annoyed and turned to the spirits and said, “I command you in the name of Yeshua the Messiah to leave her:” and they left her in that hour. 19 And her masters saw that the hope of profit had left them, and seizing Paul and Silas they dragged them to the agora, to the rulers 20 and bringing them to the chief magistrates they said, “These men, being Jews, are stirring up trouble for our city, 21 and proclaiming a custom which it is illegal for us to receive or to do, they are for the Romans.” 22 And the crowd fell on them and the chief magistrates, tearing off their clothes, commanded them to beat them, 23 and putting many blows on them they threw them into prison commanding the jailer to keep them under close guard. 24 He, taking such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet to a stake.
25 And at midnight Paul and Silas, praying, sang praises to God, and the prisoners listened to them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison shook: and suddenly all the doors were opened and the bonds loosened. 27 And coming out of sleep and seeing that the doors of the jail were opened, the jailer, drawing [his] sword, was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28 And Paul shouted in a great voice saying, “Don’t do evil to yourself, for we are all here.” 29 And demanding lights he rushed in and being trembling fell before Paul and Silas 30 and bringing them out he said, “Masters, what must I do to be saved?” 31 And they said, “Trust in the lord Yeshua and you will be saved, your house as well.” 32 And they told him the word of the lord with all those in his house. 33 And taking them at that hour of the night he freed them from the bonds, and he and all of his people were baptized immediately, 34 and leading them to the house he set a table and rejoiced with his whole house, having trusted in God.
35 And when it was day the chief magistrates sent the policemen saying, “Set those men free.” 36 And the jailer announced [these] words to Paul, that “The chief magistrates have sent so that you may be freed: therefore, now, leave and go in peace.” 37 And Paul said to them, "They beat us, who are Roman men, publically without trial, threw us into prison, and now they're throwing us out quietly? Oh no, rather let them come lead us out." 38 And the policemen announced these words to the chief magistrates. And they were greatly afraid hearing that they are Romans, 39 and coming they summoned them and led them out and asked them to leave the city. 40 And leaving the prison they went to Lydia and seeing encouraged the brothers and left.
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Acts
Feb 26, 2008 10:37:48 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Feb 26, 2008 10:37:48 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 17: 1-9: The Uproar in Thessalonica
1 And traveling through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 And according to the custom with Paul they went in to them and for three sabbaths he read from the writings to them, 3 and explained them and proved that the Messiah must suffer and rise from the dead and that “This Messiah is Yeshua, whom I am announcing to you.” 4 And some of them were convinced and joined Paul and Silas, and a great number of God-fearing Greeks, and women were not a few of the first.
5 And being jealous the Jews also gathered some evil men from among the loafers in the agora and causing a riot set the city in an uproar and standing over the house of Jason they sought to bring them to the public assembly: 6 and not finding them they dragged Jason and some brothers to the magistrates shouting that “These are the ones who are upsetting the world, these and those who are near here, 7 whom Jason has warned: and all of these act against the decrees of Caesar, saying that Yeshua is another king." 8 They disturbed the crowd and the magistrates who heard these things, 9 and taking each one near Jason and the rest they sent them away.
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Acts
Feb 28, 2008 9:51:30 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Feb 28, 2008 9:51:30 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 17: 10-15: The Apostles at Beroea
10 And immediately, by night, the brothers sent both Paul and Silas to Berea, who arrived and went into the synagogue. 11 And these ones were nobler than those in Thessalonica, who searched the word with all eagerness every day, reading the writings (to see) if they had these things thus. 12 And many of them trusted, and not a few Greek women of high birth and men.
13 And as the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was also being announced by Paul in Berea, they went there stirring up and disturbing the crowds. 14 And immediately then the brothers sent Paul away to go as far as the sea, and Silas and Timothy stayed there. 15 And accompanying Paul they led him to Athens, and taking a command to Silas and Timothy that they might come to him as quickly as possible they departed.
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Acts
Mar 6, 2008 17:43:54 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 6, 2008 17:43:54 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 17: 16-34: Paul at Athens
16 And when Paul was awaiting them in Athens the spirit pricked him when he saw how idolatrous the city was. 17 Therefore he spoke in the synagogue to the Jews and to the God-fearers and in the agora every single day to those whom he encountered. 18 And some of both the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers met him, and some said, “What could this babbler want to say?” And others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods, for he announces good news of Yeshua and resurrection.” 19 And taking him they led him to the Hill of Mars saying, “Can we know what this new teaching that is being spoken by you is? 20 For you are bringing some strange things to our ears: therefore we desire to know what he wants these things to be.”
21 For all the Athenians and the resident strangers, with no exceptions, enjoyed saying or hearing something new.
22 And Paul stood in the middle of Mars Hill and said, “Athenian men, I see that you are very religious above all. 23 For going through and looking at your shrines I even found an altar on which was written, ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you. 24 The God who created the world and everything in it, this one is lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by hands 25 nor does he need to be healed by human hands, he who gave both breath and all things to all life 26 And he made each nation of men that lives on all the face of the earth from one man, limiting the designated seasons and the boundaries of their habitation 27 to seek God, if therefore they might search for him and find him, and indeed he is not far from each one of us.
28 For in him we live and move and exist, as some of your own poets have also said,
‘For we are also children of him.’
29 Therefore since we are children of God we do not have to think (of him) with gold or silver or stone, with graven figures of art and the opinion of man, to be like the divine. 30 Therefore indeed, overlooking the times of ignorance, God now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 inasmuch as he set a day in which he will judge the world by righteousness, by the man whom he appointed, giving him all trust, raising him from the dead.”
32 And hearing of the resurrection of the dead indeed they jeered, but they said, “We will hear you about this even once more.” 33 Thus Paul went from their midst. 34 And some men joined him and trusted, among whom was also Dionysus of Mars Hill and his wife named Damaris and other with them.
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Acts
Mar 12, 2008 14:54:48 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 12, 2008 14:54:48 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 18: 1-17: Paul at Corinth
1 After these things, leaving Athens, he went to Corinth. 2 And finding a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus by family lately arrived from Italy, and his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome, he went to them 3 and because they were fellow craftsmen he stayed with them, and they worked: for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 And he spoke in the synagogue every sabbath and convinced Jews and Greeks.
5 And as both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed in the word, declaring to the Jews that Yeshua is the Messiah. 6 And when they opposed him and blasphemed he shook out his cloak and said to them, “Your blood is on your head: I am clean, from now on I will go to the gentiles.” 7 And going away from there he went into the house of a certain man named Titius Justus, a God-fearer, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8 And Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, trusted in the lord together with all his house, and hearing (this) many of the Corinthians trusted and were baptized. 9 And at night, through a vision, the lord said to Paul, “Don’t be afraid, but rather speak and don’t be silent, 10 for I will be with you and no one will attack you to do evil to you, for there will be a great nation for me in this city.”
11 And he stayed a year and six months teaching the word of God among them.
12 And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaea the Jews rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat 13 saying that, “This man convinces men to fear God contrarily to the law.” 14 And as Paul was about to open his mouth Gallio said to the Jews, “Indeed if there was any wrong or evil crime, Jews, according to the word I put up with you, 15 but if what is sought (against him) is about your word or names or law, see (to it) yourselves: I don’t want to be a judge of these things.” 16 And he drove them away from the judgment seat. 17 And seizing Sosthenes the leader of the synagogue they beat him before the judgment seat: and none of these things concerned Gallio.
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Acts
Mar 19, 2008 14:46:30 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 19, 2008 14:46:30 GMT -5
Acts 18: 18-23: Paul at Ephesus
18 And staying some days with the brothers Paul said goodbye and sailed to Syria, and Priscilla with him. And he cut his hair at Kegchea, for he had a vow. 19 And they arrived at Ephesus and he left them there, and going into the synagogue he spoke to the Jews. 20 And when they asked him to stay in the fullness of time he didn’t consent 21 but rather shaking them off and saying, “I’ll come back to you again when God desires,” he set sail from Ephesus, 22 and going down to Caesarea, going up and greeting the church, he went down to Antioch. 23 And spending a certain time he left going through the Galatian and Phrygian region in order, strengthening all the disciples.
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Acts
Mar 21, 2008 12:31:05 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 21, 2008 12:31:05 GMT -5
Acts 18: 24-28: Apollos Preaches at Ephesus
24 And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, Alexandrian by birth, being powerful in the scriptures, went down to Ephesus. 25 This one was coming down the way of the lord and boiling with the spirit spoke and taught accurately the things about Yeshua, knowing only John’s baptism: 26 and this one began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And when Priscilla and Aquila heard him they brought him and explained the way [of God] more clearly to him.
27 And when he planned to go to Achaea, the brothers wrote encouraging the disciples to welcome him, who would come and assist those trusting much through grace: 28 for they were vehemently refuting the Jews in public, proving from the scriptures that Yeshua is the Messiah.
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Acts
Mar 22, 2008 7:59:24 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 22, 2008 7:59:24 GMT -5
Acts 19: 1-10: Paul at Ephesus
1 And it happened when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul left the upper portion (of the land) and went [down] to Ephesus and found some disciples. 2 And he said to them, “Did you, trusting, receive the holy spirit?” And they said to him, “Rather we didn’t hear that there is a holy spirit.” 3 And he said, “What were you baptized into?” And they said, “Into John’s baptism.” 4 And Paul said, “John baptized a baptism of repentance to the law, speaking for the one coming after him so that they might trust, this one is Yeshua.” 5 And when Paul laid [his] hands on them the holy spirit came n them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. 7 And they were about twelve men.
8 And entering the synagogue he spoke boldly for three months speaking and persuading [the things] about God’s kingdom. 9 And as some were hardened and willfully disbelieved, speaking evil of the way before the numbers (of people), removing from them he separated his disciples, speaking in Tyrannus’ school each day. 10 And this happened for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia heard the word of the lord, both Jews and Greeks.
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Acts
Mar 23, 2008 11:49:34 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 23, 2008 11:49:34 GMT -5
Acts 19: 11-20: The Sons of Sceva
11 And God did uncommon miracles through Paul’s hands, 12 so that even towels or kerchiefs from his skin carried away sicknesses and diseases and he drove maladies away from them, and expelled the evil spirits. 13 And some of the wandering Judean exorcists tried to name* those having the evil spirits by the name of the lord Yeshua saying, “I abjure you by the Yeshua whom Paul is preaching.” 14 And the seven sons of a certain Skeva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this. 15 And answering the evil spirit said to them, “Yeshua I know and Paul I know, but you, who are you?” 16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was attacked them, and he overpowered all of them being stronger than them, so that they fled that house naked and wounded. 17 And this was known to all the Jews as well as Greeks who lived in Ephesus and fear fell on all of them and they magnified the name of the lord Yeshua. 18 And many of those who trusted began confessing and announcing their deeds. 19 And many of those who practiced magic gathered the books (of magic) and burned them in front of everyone, and they counted their prices and found (them worth) fifty thousand silver pieces.
20 Thus by the lord's strength the word grew and became powerful.
*Spirits were expelled by naming them or by calling on the name of a more powerful spirit.
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Acts
Mar 30, 2008 18:06:37 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 30, 2008 18:06:37 GMT -5
Acts 19: 21-40: The Riot at Ephesus
21 And as all these things were fulfilled, Paul was put in the spirit going through Macedonia and Achaea to go to Jerusalem, saying that, “After I am there I also have to see Rome.” 22 And he sent two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, who had stayed in Asia for a time, to Macedonia.
23 And it happened in that time that there was disturbance that was not small about the way. 24 For a certain man by the name of Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver statues of Artemis and gave the artisans not a little trade, 25 whom he gathered together with the (other) such craftsmen and said, “Men, you know that our livelihood is from such trade 26 and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in all of nearby Asia this Paul is convincing and changing enough of a crowd, saying that the gods aren’t made by hands. 27 Not only this, he is destroying for us the part to bring it into disrepute, but also he is considering the temple of the great goddess Artemis as nothing and is also going to destroy her greatness in all Asia and the world that reveres her.”
28 And hearing this and being full of anger they shouted saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.” 29 And the city was full of confusion, and with one accord they rushed to the theater to seize Gaius and the Macedonian Aristarchus, Paul’s fellow traveler. 30 And when Paul wanted to enter the country the disciples didn’t let him: 31 and some of the asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and urged him not to put himself into the theater. 32 Therefore indeed others shouted something else: for the community was confused and many didn’t know anything because they had gathered. 33 And from the crowd they brought Alexander forward, showing him (as one) of the Jews: and Alexander, motioning with his hand, tried to defend the public. 34 And perceiving that he is Jewish, there came (all the voices like) one voice from all of them for about two hours shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.” 35 And quelling the crowd the scribe said, “Ephesian men, what are men who don’t know the city of the Ephesians, which is sacred because of great Artemis and the stones from the sky? 36 These things are undeniable, therefore you must calm down and not do anything rash. 37 For you brought these men who are not temple robbers nor blasphemers of our god. 38 Therefore indeed if Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have any accusation to bring, let them bring it publicly, and the proconsuls are here, let them call each other. 39 And if anyone seeks anything further against a lawful community, it will be explained. 40 For (if) we dare to bring them to account suddenly about today, no one being guilty of this, we can['t] return the word concerning this riotous crowd." And saying this he sent the community away.
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Acts
Apr 1, 2008 17:55:36 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 1, 2008 17:55:36 GMT -5
Acts 20: 1-6: Paul’s Journey to Macedonia and Greece
1 And after the noise stopped Paul, sending away, comforting, and saying goodbye to the disciples, left to go to Macedonia. 2 And going through that region and comforting them with many words he went to Greece 3 and he stayed three months: and there was a plot against him by the Judeans who were about to sail for Syria, he resolved to return through Macedonia. 4 And Sopater Purros from Berea, and Aristarchus from Thessalonica and Secundus and Gaius from Derbe and Timothy, and the Asians Tychicus and Trophimus followed him. 5 And going on these men stayed with us at Troas. 6 And we set sail from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread and went to them at Troas after five days, where we stayed for seven days.
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Acts
Apr 3, 2008 16:54:39 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 3, 2008 16:54:39 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 20: 7-12: Paul’s Farewell Visit to Troas
7 And on one of the sabbaths we were gathering to break bread, and Paul told them that he was going to leave the next day, and he prolonged his words until midnight. 8 And there were enough lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. 9 And a certain young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window, and falling into a deep sleep while Paul was talking on and on, and brought down by sleep fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead. 10 And going down Paul fell on him and threw his arms around him and said, “Don’t make an uproar because his life is still in him.” 11 And going up and breaking bread and giving him a taste and speaking until dawn, thus he left. 12 And they brought the child in living and were comforted not moderately.
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Acts
Apr 5, 2008 14:36:14 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 5, 2008 14:36:14 GMT -5
Acts of the Emissaries 20: 13-16: The Voyage from Troas to Miletus
13 And going on we set sail for Assus, from there we were going to pick Paul up: for having commanded thus he was going to walk. 14 And as we arrived at Assus picking him up we came to Mytilene, 15 from there we made a straight run on the following day and arrived at Chios, and on the next day we came to Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus. 16 For Paul had decided to go past Ephesus, so that he wouldn't waste time in Asia: for he was hurrying, if it was possible for him to be in Jerusalem on the fiftieth day.
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