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Gospels: Stephen makes his defense - Acts 7:1-53
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Monday, January 25, 2010. Stephen makes his defense - Acts 7:1-53. Stephen makes his defense. And the high priest said, “Are these things so? 8220;Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3. And said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ 4. 8220;And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him 10. Now there came a famine thr...
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Gospels: June 2009
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Monday, June 22, 2009. The Sanhedrin Intensifies its Opposition: 5:17-42. 17 But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy. 18 they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. 19 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,. 20 “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”. 25 And someone came and told them, “Look! 28 saying, “...
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Gospels: August 2009
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Acts 6:2-6: The Solution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers,. Pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”. These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them. And what...
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Gospels: October 2008
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 3. And went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews! And they slapped him in the face. Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him." 5. When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9. When Pilate heard ...
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Gospels: May 2009
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Thursday, May 28, 2009. Peter preaches to the crowd - 3:11-26. While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's. And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,. Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring al...
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Gospels: November 2009
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Stephen is Accused - 6:8-15. And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. 9. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. 10. But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. 11. This Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change th...
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Gospels: July 2009
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Friday, July 24, 2009. 26 Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,. 28 saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”. 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
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Gospels: January 2010
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Monday, January 25, 2010. Stephen makes his defense - Acts 7:1-53. Stephen makes his defense. And the high priest said, “Are these things so? 8220;Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3. And said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ 4. 8220;And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him 10. Now there came a famine thr...
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