Lexicon :: Strong's G5037 - te

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner, but God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean.

“So I immediately sent for you, and it was good of you to come. So now we are all in the presence of God to hear everything you have been commanded by the Lord.”

“We ourselves are witnesses of everything he did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, and yet they killed him by hanging him on a tree.

and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

As soon as he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many had assembled and were praying.

Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Tell these things to James and the brothers,” he said, and he left and went to another place.

So being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

“Now, look, the Lord’s hand is against you. You are going to be blind, and will not see the sun for a time.” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

When an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat and stone them,

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form! ”

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the town, brought bulls and wreaths to the gates because he intended, with the crowds, to offer sacrifice.

After they had preached the gospel in that town and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch,

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

But some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

The apostles and the elders gathered to consider this matter.

“He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Both Judas and Silas, who were also prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers and sisters and strengthened them with a long message.

They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed off to Cyprus.

After they had severely flogged them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to guard them carefully.

He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe in God with his entire household.

As soon as it was night, the brothers and sisters sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. Upon arrival, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Then the brothers and sisters immediately sent Paul away to go to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed on there.

They took him and brought him to the Areopagus,[fn] and said, “May we learn about this new teaching you are presenting?

“From one man[fn] he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word[fn] and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. After Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside[fn] and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

“Into what then were you baptized? ” he asked them.

“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in tongues[fn] and to prophesy.

This went on for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands,

so that even facecloths or aprons[fn] that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.

When this became known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks, they became afraid, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high esteem.

And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,

“Not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin ​— ​the very one all of Asia and the world worship.”

So the city was filled with confusion, and they rushed all together into the amphitheater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.