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So he went to the high priest.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them—both men and women—back to Jerusalem in chains.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As he was approaching Damascus on this mission, a light from heaven suddenly shone down around him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Who are you, lord?” Saul asked. And the voice replied, “I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The men with Saul stood speechless, for they heard the sound of someone’s voice but saw no one!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Saul picked himself up off the ground, but when he opened his eyes he was blind. So his companions led him by the hand to Damascus.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He remained there blind for three days and did not eat or drink.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now there was a believer in Damascus named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, calling, “Ananias!” “Yes, Lord!” he replied.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The Lord said, “Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias coming in and laying hands on him so he can see again.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“But Lord,” exclaimed Ananias, “I’ve heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers in Jerusalem!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And he is authorized by the leading priests to arrest everyone who calls upon your name.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the Lord said, “Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> And I will show him how much he must suffer for my name’s sake.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Instantly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength. Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for a few days.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and taking food, he was strengthened. For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And immediately he began preaching about Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is indeed the Son of God!”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All who heard him were amazed. “Isn’t this the same man who caused such devastation among Jesus’ followers in Jerusalem?” they asked. “And didn’t he come here to arrest them and take them in chains to the leading priests?”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And all who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called upon this name? And has he not come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Saul’s preaching became more and more powerful, and the Jews in Damascus couldn’t refute his proofs that Jesus was indeed the Messiah.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After a while some of the Jews plotted together to kill him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They were watching for him day and night at the city gate so they could murder him, but Saul was told about their plot.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So during the night, some of the other believers lowered him in a large basket through an opening in the city wall.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to meet with the believers, but they were all afraid of him. They did not believe he had truly become a believer!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and told them how Saul had seen the Lord on the way to Damascus and how the Lord had spoken to Saul. He also told them that Saul had preached boldly in the name of Jesus in Damascus.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Saul stayed with the apostles and went all around Jerusalem with them, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He debated with some Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to murder him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the believers heard about this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus, his hometown.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The church then had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, and it became stronger as the believers lived in the fear of the Lord. And with the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, it also grew in numbers. Peter Heals Aeneas and Raises Dorcas<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Meanwhile, Peter traveled from place to place, and he came down to visit the believers in the town of Lydda.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">There he met a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you! Get up, and roll up your sleeping mat!” And he was healed instantly.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the whole population of Lydda and Sharon saw Aeneas walking around, and they turned to the Lord.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext1">There was a believer in Joppa named Tabitha (which in Greek is Dorcas ). She was always doing kind things for others and helping the poor.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext1">About this time she became ill and died. Her body was washed for burial and laid in an upstairs room.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In those days she became ill and died, and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the believers had heard that Peter was nearby at Lydda, so they sent two men to beg him, “Please come as soon as possible!”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Please come to us without delay.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Peter returned with them; and as soon as he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. The room was filled with widows who were weeping and showing him the coats and other clothes Dorcas had made for them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Peter asked them all to leave the room; then he knelt and prayed. Turning to the body he said, “Get up, Tabitha.” And she opened her eyes! When she saw Peter, she sat up!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then he called in the widows and all the believers, and he presented her to them alive.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then, calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The news spread through the whole town, and many believed in the Lord.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And Peter stayed a long time in Joppa, living with Simon, a tanner of hides.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/9-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he stayed in Joppa for many days with one Simon, a tanner.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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