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For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years.

Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”

When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’

Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,