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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkJOS">
        <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="JOS.1">
            <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joshua Installed as Leader</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the death of Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses&#8217; aide: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them&#8212;to the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates&#8212;all the Hittite country&#8212;to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.1.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will be with you wherever you go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.1.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Joshua ordered the officers of the people: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go through the camp and tell the people, &#8216;Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you for your own.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.1.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember the command that Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave you after he said, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will give you rest by giving you this land.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, ready for battle, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites. You are to help them </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.1.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they answered Joshua, &#8220;Whatever you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Just as we fully obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. Only may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God be with you as he was with Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whoever rebels against your word and does not obey it, whatever you may command them, will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch91" data-usfm="PSA.91">
            <div class="label">91</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 91</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">91:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will say of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;He is my refuge and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">my God, in whom I trust.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Surely he will save you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">from the fowler&#8217;s snare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">and from the deadly pestilence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He will cover you with his feathers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">and under his wings you will find refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You will not fear the terror of night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">nor the arrow that flies by day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">nor the plague that destroys at midday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A thousand may fall at your side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">ten thousand at your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">but it will not come near you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You will only observe with your eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">and see the punishment of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you say, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my refuge,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">and you make the Most High your dwelling,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">no harm will overtake you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">no disaster will come near your tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he will command his angels concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">to guard you in all your ways;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">they will lift you up in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You will tread on the lion and the cobra;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">you will trample the great lion and the serpent.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">91:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> loves me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;I will rescue him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will call on me, and I will answer him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will be with him in trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will deliver him and honor him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With long life I will satisfy him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="content">and show him my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="ISA.6">
            <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah&#8217;s Commission</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And they were calling to one another:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Holy, holy, holy is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">the whole earth is full of his glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; I cried. &#8220;I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With it he touched my mouth and said, &#8220;See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">And I said, &#8220;Here am I. Send me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Go and tell this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Be ever hearing, but never understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Make the heart of this people calloused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">make their ears dull</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and close their eyes.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:9,10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">&#8216;You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217; / </span><span class="fv">10 </span><span class="fqa">This people&#8217;s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">understand with their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and turn and be healed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8220;For how long, Lord?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">And he answered:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Until the cities lie ruined</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and without inhabitant,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">until the houses are left deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and the fields ruined and ravaged,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent everyone far away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">and the land is utterly forsaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And though a tenth remains in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">it will again be laid waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">But as the terebinth and oak</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">leave stumps when they are cut down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkACT">
        <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="ACT.11">
            <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Explains His Actions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.11.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then I heard a voice telling me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.11.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;I replied, &#8216;Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.11.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;The voice spoke from heaven a second time, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.11.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man&#8217;s house. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, &#8216;Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.11.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then I remembered what the Lord had said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;John baptized with</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">water, but you will be baptized with</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the Holy Spirit.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God&#8217;s way?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.11.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, &#8220;So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Church in Antioch</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.11.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The Lord&#8217;s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.11.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.11.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.11.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">During this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">One of them, named Agabus, stood up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world. (This happened during the reign of Claudius.) </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.</span></span></div>
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