^12 (A)The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”

¹⁶ But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. ^(A)Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. ^(B)May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

²¹ The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ^(A)‘Let us go at once ^(B)to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.’ ^22 (C)Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and ^(D)to entreat the favor of the Lord. ²³ Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ^(E)ten men ^(F)from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for ^(G)we have heard that God is with you.’”

¹¹ And ^(A)great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.

Many Signs and Wonders Done

¹² Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people ^(B)by the hands of the apostles. And they were all ^(C)together in ^(D)Solomon's Portico. ¹³ None of the rest dared join them, but ^(E)the people held them in high esteem. ¹⁴ And ^(F)more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,