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highlighted Acts 7:32-34 NLT
‘I am the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses shook with terror and did not dare to look. “Then the LORD said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground. I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groans and have come down to rescue them. Now go, for I am sending you back to Egypt.’
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:30-31 NLT
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:19 NLT
This king exploited our people and oppressed them, forcing parents to abandon their newborn babies so they would die.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:11-18 NLT
“But a famine came upon Egypt and Canaan. There was great misery, and our ancestors ran out of food. Jacob heard that there was still grain in Egypt, so he sent his sons—our ancestors—to buy some. The second time they went, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and they were introduced to Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent for his father, Jacob, and all his relatives to come to Egypt, seventy-five persons in all. So Jacob went to Egypt. He died there, as did our ancestors. Their bodies were taken to Shechem and buried in the tomb Abraham had bought for a certain price from Hamor’s sons in Shechem. “As the time drew near when God would fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt greatly increased. But then a new king came to the throne of Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:9-10 NLT
and rescued him from all his troubles. And God gave him favor before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. God also gave Joseph unusual wisdom, so that Pharaoh appointed him governor over all of Egypt and put him in charge of the palace. “These patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph, and they sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:8 NLT
“God also gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision at that time. So when Abraham became the father of Isaac, he circumcised him on the eighth day. And the practice was continued when Isaac became the father of Jacob, and when Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs of the Israelite nation.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:6 NLT
God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 7:2-5 NLT
This was Stephen’s reply: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Mesopotamia before he settled in Haran. God told him, ‘Leave your native land and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.’ So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran until his father died. Then God brought him here to the land where you now live. “But God gave him no inheritance here, not even one square foot of land. God did promise, however, that eventually the whole land would belong to Abraham and his descendants—even though he had no children yet.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 6:15 NLT
At this point everyone in the high council stared at Stephen, because his face became as bright as an angel’s.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 6:12-14 NLT
This roused the people, the elders, and the teachers of religious law. So they arrested Stephen and brought him before the high council. The lying witnesses said, “This man is always speaking against the holy Temple and against the law of Moses. We have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the Temple and change the customs Moses handed down to us.”
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 6:10-11 NLT
None of them could stand against the wisdom and the Spirit with which Stephen spoke. So they persuaded some men to lie about Stephen, saying, “We heard him blaspheme Moses, and even God.”
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 6:9 NLT
But one day some men from the Synagogue of Freed Slaves, as it was called, started to debate with him. They were Jews from Cyrene, Alexandria, Cilicia, and the province of Asia.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 6:8 NLT
Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed amazing miracles and signs among the people.
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 6:5 NLT
Everyone liked this idea, and they chose the following: Stephen (a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit), Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas of Antioch (an earlier convert to the Jewish faith).
Apr 22
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highlighted Acts 5:29 NLT
But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.
Apr 21
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highlighted Acts 5:28 NLT
“We gave you strict orders never again to teach in this man’s name!” he said. “Instead, you have filled all Jerusalem with your teaching about him, and you want to make us responsible for his death!”
Apr 21
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highlighted Acts 5:26 NLT
The captain went with his Temple guards and arrested the apostles, but without violence, for they were afraid the people would stone them.
Apr 21
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highlighted Acts 5:22-23 NLT
But when the Temple guards went to the jail, the men were gone. So they returned to the council and reported, “The jail was securely locked, with the guards standing outside, but when we opened the gates, no one was there!”
Apr 21
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highlighted Acts 5:21 NLT
So at daybreak the apostles entered the Temple, as they were told, and immediately began teaching. When the high priest and his officials arrived, they convened the high council—the full assembly of the elders of Israel. Then they sent for the apostles to be brought from the jail for trial.
Apr 21
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highlighted Acts 5:20 NLT
“Go to the Temple and give the people this message of life!”
Apr 21