³⁹ For ^(A)the promise is for you and your children and for all who are ^(B)far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.” ⁴⁰ And with many other words he solemnly ^(C)testified and kept on urging them, saying, “^[a]Be saved from this ^(D)perverse generation!” ⁴¹ So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand ^[b](E)souls.