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There were Jews who came from Antioch and Iconium. They swayed the crowds (at Lycaonia etc) and so Paul was stoned and dragged outside the city. It was supposed that he had died. But as the disciples surrounded him he got up and went (back) into the city. The next day he went out (from there) with Barnabas and on to Derbe. Having evangelized that city and having made many disciples they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch. They confirmed the minds of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, (and telling them) that it is through many afflictions that it behoves us to enter into the kingdom of God. Then, having
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appointed elders for them in every church and after praying with fasting, they committed them (Paul and Barnabas) to the Lord in whom they had believed. They (then) passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. They were speaking the word in Perga and (then) they came down to Attalia and from there sailed away to Antioch. It was there they were commended to the grace (life) of God for the work which they had accomplished. So having arrived and having assembled the church they reported what things God had done with them - that he had opened a door of faith to the nations (non-Jews). They stayed quite some time with the disciples there (at Antioch).
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