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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 14
Paul and Barnabas in Iconium
1The same thing happened in Iconium. Paul and Barnabas entered the Jewish synagogue and spoke as they had before. As a result, a huge number of Jews and Greeks believed. 2However, the Jews who rejected the faith stirred up the Gentiles, poisoning their minds against the brothers. 3Nevertheless, Paul and Barnabas stayed there for quite some time, confidently speaking about the Lord. And the Lord confirmed the word about his grace by the signs and wonders he enabled them to perform. 4The people of the city were divided—some siding with the Jews, others with the Lord’s messengers. 5Then some Gentiles and Jews, including their leaders, hatched a plot to mistreat and stone Paul and Barnabas. 6When they learned of it, these two messengers fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding area, 7where they continued to proclaim the good news.
Healing a crippled man in Lystra
8In Lystra there was a certain man who lacked strength in his legs. He had been crippled since birth and had never walked. Sitting there, he 9heard Paul speaking. Paul stared at him and saw that he believed he could be healed.
10Raising his voice, Paul said, “Stand up straight on your feet!” He jumped up and began to walk.
11Seeing what Paul had done, the crowd shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have taken human form and come down to visit us!” 12They referred to Barnabas as Zeus and to Paul as Hermes, since Paul was the main speaker. 13The priest of Zeus, whose temple was located just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates. Along with the crowds, he wanted to offer sacrifices to them.
14When the Lord’s messengers Barnabas and Paul found out about this, they tore their clothes in protest and rushed out into the crowd. They shouted, 15“People, what are you doing? We are humans too, just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you: turn to the living God and away from such worthless things. He “made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.” 16In the past, he permitted every nation to go its own way. 17Nevertheless, he hasn’t left himself without a witness. He has blessed you by giving you rain from above as well as seasonal harvests, and satisfying you with food and happiness.” 18Even with these words, they barely kept the crowds from sacrificing to them.
19Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and won the crowds over. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing he was dead. 20When the disciples surrounded him, he got up and entered the city again. The following day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
Returning to Antioch
21Paul and Barnabas proclaimed the good news to the people in Derbe and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, where 22they strengthened the disciples and urged them to remain firm in the faith. They told them, “If we are to enter God’s kingdom, we must pass through many troubles.” 23They appointed elders for each church. With prayer and fasting, they committed these elders to the Lord, in whom they had placed their trust.
24After Paul and Barnabas traveled through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. 25They proclaimed the word in Perga, then went down to Attalia. 26From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been entrusted by God’s grace to the work they had now completed. 27On their arrival, they gathered the church together and reported everything that God had accomplished through their activity, and how God had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles. 28They stayed with the disciples a long time.
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 15
The Jerusalem Council
1Some people came down from Judea teaching the family of believers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom we’ve received from Moses, you can’t be saved.” 2Paul and Barnabas took sides against these Judeans and argued strongly against their position.
The church at Antioch appointed Paul, Barnabas, and several others from Antioch to go up to Jerusalem to set this question before the apostles and the elders. 3The church sent this delegation on their way. They traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling stories about the conversion of the Gentiles to everyone. Their reports thrilled the brothers and sisters. 4When they arrived in Jerusalem, the church, the apostles, and the elders all welcomed them. They gave a full report of what God had accomplished through their activity. 5Some believers from among the Pharisees stood up and claimed, “The Gentiles must be circumcised. They must be required to keep the Law from Moses.”
6The apostles and the elders gathered to consider this matter. 7After much debate, Peter stood and addressed them, “Fellow believers, you know that, early on, God chose me from among you as the one through whom the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and come to believe. 8God, who knows people’s deepest thoughts and desires, confirmed this by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us. 9He made no distinction between us and them, but purified their deepest thoughts and desires through faith. 10Why then are you now challenging God by placing a burden on the shoulders of these disciples that neither we nor our ancestors could bear? 11On the contrary, we believe that we and they are saved in the same way, by the grace of the Lord Jesus.”
12The entire assembly fell quiet as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describe all the signs and wonders God did among the Gentiles through their activity. 13When Barnabas and Paul also fell silent, James responded, “Fellow believers, listen to me. 14Simon reported how, in his kindness, God came to the Gentiles in the first place, to raise up from them a people of God. 15The prophets’ words agree with this; as it is written,
16“After this I will return,”
“and I will rebuild David’s fallen tent;”
“I will rebuild what has been torn down.”
“I will restore it”
17“so that the rest of humanity will seek the Lord,”
“even all the Gentiles who belong to me.”
“The Lord says this, the one who does these things”
18known from earliest times.
19“Therefore, I conclude that we shouldn’t create problems for Gentiles who turn to God. 20Instead, we should write a letter, telling them to avoid the pollution associated with idols, sexual immorality, eating meat from strangled animals, and consuming blood. 21After all, Moses has been proclaimed in every city for a long time, and is read aloud every Sabbath in every synagogue.”
Letter to the Gentile believers
22The apostles and the elders, along with the entire church, agreed to send some delegates chosen from among themselves to Antioch, together with Paul and Barnabas. They selected Judas Barsabbas and Silas, who were leaders among the brothers and sisters. 23They were to carry this letter:
The apostles and the elders, to the Gentile brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia. Greetings! 24We’ve heard that some of our number have disturbed you with unsettling words we didn’t authorize. 25We reached a united decision to select some delegates and send them to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul. 26These people have devoted their lives to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27Therefore, we are sending Judas and Silas. They will confirm what we have written. 28The Holy Spirit has led us to the decision that no burden should be placed on you other than these essentials: 29refuse food offered to idols, blood, the meat from strangled animals, and sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid such things. Farewell.
30When Barnabas, Paul, and the delegates were sent on their way, they went down to Antioch. They gathered the believers and delivered the letter. 31The people read it, delighted with its encouraging message. 32Judas and Silas were prophets, and they said many things that encouraged and strengthened the brothers and sisters. 33Judas and Silas stayed there awhile, then were sent back with a blessing of peace from the brothers and sisters to those who first sent them. 35Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, where, together with many others, they taught and proclaimed the good news of the Lord’s word.
Paul and Barnabas part company
36Some time later, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit all the brothers and sisters in every city where we preached the Lord’s word. Let’s see how they are doing.” 37Barnabas wanted to take John Mark with them. 38Paul insisted that they shouldn’t take him along, since he had deserted them in Pamphylia and hadn’t continued with them in their work. 39Their argument became so intense that they went their separate ways. Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus. 40Paul chose Silas and left, entrusted by the brothers and sisters to the Lord’s grace. 41He traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 16
Paul adds Timothy
1Paul reached Derbe, and then Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy. He was the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father. 2The brothers and sisters in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. 3Paul wanted to take Timothy with him, so he circumcised him. This was because of the Jews who lived in those areas, for they all knew Timothy’s father was Greek. 4As Paul and his companions traveled through the cities, they instructed Gentile believers to keep the regulations put in place by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem. 5So the churches were strengthened in the faith and every day their numbers flourished.
Vision of the Macedonian
6Paul and his companions traveled throughout the regions of Phrygia and Galatia because the Holy Spirit kept them from speaking the word in the province of Asia. 7When they approached the province of Mysia, they tried to enter the province of Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus wouldn’t let them. 8Passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas instead. 9A vision of a man from Macedonia came to Paul during the night. He stood urging Paul, “Come over to Macedonia and help us!” 10Immediately after he saw the vision, we prepared to leave for the province of Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.
Lydia’s conversion
11We sailed from Troas straight for Samothrace and came to Neapolis the following day. 12From there we went to Philippi, a city of Macedonia’s first district and a Roman colony. We stayed in that city several days. 13On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the riverbank, where we thought there might be a place for prayer. We sat down and began to talk with the women who had gathered. 14One of those women was Lydia, a Gentile God-worshipper from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple cloth. As she listened, the Lord enabled her to embrace Paul’s message. 15Once she and her household were baptized, she urged, “Now that you have decided that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us.
Paul and Silas in prison
16One day, when we were on the way to the place for prayer, we met a slave woman. She had a spirit that enabled her to predict the future. She made a lot of money for her owners through fortune-telling. 17She began following Paul and us, shouting, “These people are servants of the Most High God! They are proclaiming a way of salvation to you!” 18She did this for many days.
This annoyed Paul so much that he finally turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave her!” It left her at that very moment.
19Her owners realized that their hope for making money was gone. They grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the officials in the city center. 20When her owners approached the legal authorities, they said, “These people are causing an uproar in our city. They are Jews 21who promote customs that we Romans can’t accept or practice.” 22The crowd joined in the attacks against Paul and Silas, so the authorities ordered that they be stripped of their clothes and beaten with a rod. 23When Paul and Silas had been severely beaten, the authorities threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to secure them with great care. 24When he received these instructions, he threw them into the innermost cell and secured their feet in stocks.
25Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26All at once there was such a violent earthquake that it shook the prison’s foundations. The doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose. 27When the jailer awoke and saw the open doors of the prison, he thought the prisoners had escaped, so he drew his sword and was about to kill himself. 28But Paul shouted loudly, “Don’t harm yourself! We’re all here!”
29The jailer called for some lights, rushed in, and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 30He led them outside and asked, “Honorable masters, what must I do to be rescued?”
31They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your entire household.” 32They spoke the Lord’s word to him and everyone else in his house. 33Right then, in the middle of the night, the jailer welcomed them and washed their wounds. He and everyone in his household were immediately baptized. 34He brought them into his home and gave them a meal. He was overjoyed because he and everyone in his household had come to believe in God.
35The next morning the legal authorities sent the police to the jailer with the order “Release those people.”
36So the jailer reported this to Paul, informing him, “The authorities sent word that you both are to be released. You can leave now. Go in peace.”
37Paul told the police, “Even though we are Roman citizens, they beat us publicly without first finding us guilty of a crime, and they threw us into prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? No way! They themselves will have to come and escort us out.” 38The police reported this to the legal authorities, who were alarmed to learn that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens. 39They came and consoled Paul and Silas, escorting them out of prison and begging them to leave the city.
40Paul and Silas left the prison and made their way to Lydia’s house where they encouraged the brothers and sisters. Then they left Philippi.
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