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highlighted Acts 22:10 NLT
“I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ “And the Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything you are to do.’
May 3
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highlighted Acts 22:8 NLT
“‘Who are you, lord?’ I asked. “And the voice replied, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, the one you are persecuting.’
May 3
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highlighted Acts 22:7 NLT
I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
May 3
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highlighted Acts 22:6 NLT
“As I was on the road, approaching Damascus about noon, a very bright light from heaven suddenly shone down around me.
May 3
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highlighted Acts 22:3 NLT
Then Paul said, “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, and I was brought up and educated here in Jerusalem under Gamaliel. As his student, I was carefully trained in our Jewish laws and customs. I became very zealous to honor God in everything I did, just like all of you today.
May 3
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highlighted Acts 21:40 NLT
The commander agreed, so Paul stood on the stairs and motioned to the people to be quiet. Soon a deep silence enveloped the crowd, and he addressed them in their own language, Aramaic.
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:34-36 NLT
Some shouted one thing and some another. Since he couldn’t find out the truth in all the uproar and confusion, he ordered that Paul be taken to the fortress. As Paul reached the stairs, the mob grew so violent the soldiers had to lift him to their shoulders to protect him. And the crowd followed behind, shouting, “Kill him, kill him!”
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:31 NLT
As they were trying to kill him, word reached the commander of the Roman regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:32-33 NLT
He immediately called out his soldiers and officers and ran down among the crowd. When the mob saw the commander and the troops coming, they stopped beating Paul. Then the commander arrested him and ordered him bound with two chains. He asked the crowd who he was and what he had done.
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:30 NLT
The whole city was rocked by these accusations, and a great riot followed. Paul was grabbed and dragged out of the Temple, and immediately the gates were closed behind him.
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:28 NLT
yelling, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who preaches against our people everywhere and tells everybody to disobey the Jewish laws. He speaks against the Temple—and even defiles this holy place by bringing in Gentiles.”
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:27 NLT
The seven days were almost ended when some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul in the Temple and roused a mob against him. They grabbed him,
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:25 NLT
“As for the Gentile believers, they should do what we already told them in a letter: They should abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:21 NLT
But the Jewish believers here in Jerusalem have been told that you are teaching all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn their backs on the laws of Moses. They’ve heard that you teach them not to circumcise their children or follow other Jewish customs.
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:20 NLT
After hearing this, they praised God. And then they said, “You know, dear brother, how many thousands of Jews have also believed, and they all follow the law of Moses very seriously.
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:16 NLT
Some believers from Caesarea accompanied us, and they took us to the home of Mnason, a man originally from Cyprus and one of the early believers.
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:14 NLT
When it was clear that we couldn’t persuade him, we gave up and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:13 NLT
But he said, “Why all this weeping? You are breaking my heart! I am ready not only to be jailed at Jerusalem but even to die for the sake of the Lord Jesus.”
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:11 NLT
He came over, took Paul’s belt, and bound his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, “The Holy Spirit declares, ‘So shall the owner of this belt be bound by the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem and turned over to the Gentiles.’”
May 2
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highlighted Acts 21:9 NLT
He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy.
May 2