TSK · Acts 12:17

Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The LORD releases the imprisoned.

When he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They realized that he had seen a vision in the holy place, because he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden from them and went out from the temple area.

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

So Paul stood up, gestured with his hand and said,“Men of Israel, and you Gentiles who fear God, listen:

When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia’s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed.

The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there.

Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

¶ Salutation From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!