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All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
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They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.
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Chapter 3
Cure of a Crippled Beggar. Now Peter and John were going up to the temple area for the three o’clock hour of prayer.
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Prayer of the Community. After their release they went back to their own people and reported what the chief priests and elders had told them.
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whereas we shall devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
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He looked intently at him and, seized with fear, said, “What is it, sir?” He said to him, “Your prayers and almsgiving have ascended as a memorial offering before God.
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Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, three o’clock in the afternoon, I was at prayer in my house when suddenly a man in dazzling robes stood before me and said,
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‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your almsgiving remembered before God.
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“I was at prayer in the city of Joppa when in a trance I had a vision, something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me.
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Peter thus was being kept in prison, but prayer by the church was fervently being made to God on his behalf.
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When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who is called Mark, where there were many people gathered in prayer.
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Then, completing their fasting and prayer, they laid hands on them and sent them off.
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They appointed presbyters for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith.
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On the sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river where we thought there would be a place of prayer. We sat and spoke with the women who had gathered there.
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Imprisonment at Philippi. As we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl with an oracular spirit, who used to bring a large profit to her owners through her fortune-telling.