\40 Be careful, so that the very things the prophets said would happen do not happen to you. God spoke through one of them, and he said:
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\ 41 'You who ridicule me, you will certainly be astonished and will die when you see what I am doing today.
\q I am doing a work that you will not believe, even when it happens to you;
\q even if someone told you about it, you would not believe it.
\v 18 When they had heard what Peter said, they stopped speaking and no longer argued with him. Then they praised God, saying, "God now gives even the Gentiles the ability to turn from their sinful behavior and receive eternal life."
\v 12 Inside the sheet were all kinds of four-legged animals and reptiles and birds of the air that the law of Moses said we must not eat.
\v 14 But Peter replied, "I cannot do this, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is unacceptable to you or that would make me unacceptable to you!"
\v 25 I have been speaking these things in parables, but there will soon be a time when I will no longer speak that way. Instead, I will tell you all about my Father in ways that you can clearly understand.
From Bob Johnson and Susan Quigley
\v 16 Instead, what has happened to us is the miraculous thing that the prophet Joel wrote about long ago. He wrote:
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\v 17 'During the last days, God says, I will give my Holy Spirit to all people, and your sons and daughters will tell people my messages, and I will give visions to the young men and I will give dreams to the old men.
\v 3-4 A great number of people were there who could not take care of themselves. There, next to the pool, were people who were blind, people who could not walk, or even people who were paralyzed.
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\v 5 One man was there next to the pool who had been sick for thirty-eight years.\v 3-4 A great number of people were there who could not take care of themselves. There, next to the pool, were people who were blind, people who could not walk, or even people who were paralyzed.
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\v 5 One man was there next to the pool who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
Thanks to Bob Johnson.
Tom Warren
\v 35 At this time of the year you usually say, 'There are four months left, and then we will harvest the crops.' Yet look all around you! The fields are ready for harvest at this moment.
From Bob Johnson, TW