Acts 14:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ Here they spent a considerable time, speaking fearlessly about the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by allowing signs and wonders to be performed by them.

²⁰ while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.

⁴⁸ Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you never will believe."

²² Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

²⁹ So now, O Lord, consider the threats of these men, and grant that thy servants may be perfectly fearless in speaking thy word, ³⁰ when thy hand is stretched out to heal and to perform miracles and wonders by the name of thy holy Servant Jesus."

¹² [Move first half of vs to start of vs 15] Many miracles and wonders were performed among the people by the apostles. Now they all without exception met in the portico of Solomon. ¹³ Though the people extolled them, not a soul from the outside dared to join them. ¹⁴ On the other hand, crowds of men and women who believed in the Lord were brought in.

³² To these facts we bear witness, with the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him."

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop, ¹⁰ for I am with you, and no one shall attack and injure you; I have many people in this city." ¹¹ So he settled there for a year and six months, teaching them the word of God.

¹⁰ This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the word of the Lord. ¹¹ God also worked no ordinary miracles by means of Paul; ¹² people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

²⁴ But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

³² And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.

¹⁶ For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

⁸ I am staying on for the present at Ephesus till Pentecost, ⁹ for I have wide opportunities here for active service — and there are many to thwart me.

¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty — be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints ¹⁹ and on my behalf also, that I may be allowed to speak and open my lips in order to expound fully and freely that open secret of the gospel ²⁰ for the sake of which I am in custody as its envoy. Pray that I may have freedom to declare it as I should.

² At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.

⁴ while God corroborated their testimony with signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, distributing the holy Spirit as it pleased him.