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They said, 'The centurion Cornelius, who is an upright and God-fearing man, highly regarded by the entire Jewish people, was told by God through a holy angel to send for you and bring you to his house and to listen to what you have to say.' (Acts 10, 22)
Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were all astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit should be poured out on gentiles too, (Acts 10, 45)
It was only then that Peter came to himself. And he said, 'Now I know it is all true. The Lord really did send his angel and save me from Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.' (Acts 12, 11)
They travelled the whole length of the island, and at Paphos they came in contact with a Jewish magician and false prophet called Bar-Jesus. (Acts 13, 6)
It happened that at Iconium they went to the Jewish synagogue, in the same way, and they spoke so effectively that a great many Jews and Greeks became believers. (Acts 14, 1)
From there he went to Derbe, and then on to Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timothy, whose mother was Jewish and had become a believer; but his father was a Greek. (Acts 16, 1)
Passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they eventually reached Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. (Acts 17, 1)
When it was dark the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away to Beroea, where they went to the Jewish synagogue as soon as they arrived. (Acts 17, 10)
But some itinerant Jewish exorcists too tried pronouncing the name of the Lord Jesus over people who were possessed by evil spirits; they used to say, 'I adjure you by the Jesus whose spokesman is Paul.' (Acts 19, 13)
Among those who did this were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest. (Acts 19, 14)
Paul's defence was this, 'I have committed no offence whatever against either Jewish law, or the Temple, or Caesar.' (Acts 25, 8)
Then Festus said, 'King Agrippa, and all here present with us, you see before you the man about whom the whole Jewish community has petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, loudly protesting that he ought not to be allowed to remain alive. (Acts 25, 24)