Therefore produce fruit(A) consistent with[a] repentance.

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  1. Matthew 3:8 Lit fruit worthy of

Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance. And don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’(A) for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

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19 And after taking some food, he regained his strength.(A)

Saul Proclaiming the Messiah

Saul was with the disciples in Damascus for some days. 20 Immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues: “He is the Son of God.”(B)

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22 But Saul grew more capable and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this One is the Messiah.

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Saul in Jerusalem

26 When he arrived in Jerusalem,(A) he tried to associate with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple. 27 Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that He had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly(B) in the name of Jesus.(C) 28 Saul was coming and going with them in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. 29 He conversed and debated with the Hellenistic Jews,[a] but they attempted to kill him.(D)

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  1. Acts 9:29 Lit Hellenists; that is, Gk-speaking Jews

46 Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!(A)

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17 “After I came back to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple complex, I went into a visionary state(A) 18 and saw Him telling me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me!’

19 “But I said, ‘Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in You imprisoned and beaten.(B) 20 And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing by and approving,[a] and I guarded the clothes of those who killed him.’(C)

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  1. Acts 22:20 Other mss add of his murder

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