INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_15","073_14_15","JHN","14","15","15","“If you love me, you will do what I have commanded you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_16","073_14_16","JHN","14","16","16","Then I myself will request  my Father, and he will send you someone else who will ◄encourage/be like a legal counsel for► you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_17","073_14_17","JHN","14","17","17"," I am talking about the Spirit, who  will teach you God’s truth. He will be with you forever. Those who are opposed to God MTY cannot receive him, because they cannot understand what he  does, and they cannot know who he is. But you know who he is, because he is with you and he will be inside you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_18","073_14_18","JHN","14","18","18"," When I leave you, I will not let you be alone/helpless MET.  When I send the Spirit, it will be like I am coming back to you (OR,  When I rise from the dead, I will come back to you.) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_19","073_14_19","JHN","14","19","19","Soon those who do not belong to God MTY will not see me anymore. But  when the Spirit comes to you, it will be as though you will be seeing me again (OR, But  after I become alive again, you will see me again.) Because I will be alive again, you also will have  eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_20","073_14_20","JHN","14","20","20","At that time you will know that I have a close relationship with my Father, and you will have a close relationship with me, and I will have a close relationship with you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_21","073_14_21","JHN","14","21","21","Those who have accepted my commands and obey them are the people who love me. My Father will love those who love me. I also will love them, and I will fully reveal to them  what I am like.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_22","073_14_22","JHN","14","22","22","Then Judas spoke to him. He was not Judas Iscariot (OR, Judas, the man from Kerioth  Town),  but instead a disciple whose other name was Thaddeus. He said, “Lord, what has happened so that you can fully reveal to us what you are like, and not reveal that to those who do not belong to God MTY?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_23","073_14_23","JHN","14","23","23","Jesus replied to him, “Those who love me will obey what I have told them. My Father will  also love them. It is those people whom my Father and I will  be able to come to and ◄live with/have a personal relationship with►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_24","073_14_24","JHN","14","24","24","But those who do not love me will not obey what I have told them.  So I cannot reveal to them what I am really like. These words that I am telling you have not come just from me. They came from  my Father, the one who sent me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_25","073_14_25","JHN","14","25","25","I have told you all these things while I am still with you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_26","073_14_26","JHN","14","26","26","But  my Father will send the Holy Spirit. He is the one who will ◄encourage/be like a legal counsel for► you. He will come with my authority MTY. He will teach you all of  God’s truth that you need to know. He will also cause you to remember all the things that I have told you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_27","073_14_27","JHN","14","27","27","As I leave you, I am causing you to have  inner peace. This  inner peace comes from me. I am not causing you to have something that those who do not belong to God MTY can give you.  So stop being anxious/worried, and do not be afraid. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_28","073_14_28","JHN","14","28","28","You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, but  later I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going back to  my Father, because  my Father is greater than I am,  and there he will honor me and will send the Spirit to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_29","073_14_29","JHN","14","29","29","I have told you  these things now before they happen, so that when they happen you will believe  that what I said is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_30","073_14_30","JHN","14","30","30","I will not  be able to talk to you much longer, because what happens to me will be as though  Satan, the ruler of this world, is coming  to attack me. But he has no  control over what happens to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN14_31","073_14_31","JHN","14","31","31","Instead, the people who do not belong to God MTY must learn  from what happens to me that I love  my Father, and I am doing the things that he has commanded me to do. Now, let’s get up and leave here.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_1","073_15_1","JHN","15","1","1"," Jesus talked to us as we were walking along. Speaking figuratively of the need for us to live in a way that God wants us to, he said, “I am like MET a genuine vine,  not like those Jewish leaders who do not teach the truth. My father is like MET a gardener who  works to take care of a vineyard. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_2","073_15_2","JHN","15","2","2"," Just like a gardener cuts off the branches that bear no grapes MET,  God gets rid of those who do not please him even though they say that they belong to him. Those branches that bear fruit,  the gardener trims so that they may bear more grapes.  Similarly, my Father disciplines/corrects those who live as he wants them to live. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_3","073_15_3","JHN","15","3","3","You are already  like the branches  that a gardener trims because  you have believed the message that I have told you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_4","073_15_4","JHN","15","4","4","Remain having a close relationship with me.  If you do that, I will remain having a close relationship with you. A branch  of a vine cannot bear fruit  if it is cut off and left by itself. To bear fruit, it must remain attached to the vine. Similarly, you cannot  live the way that God wants you to if you do not remain united to me MET. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_5","073_15_5","JHN","15","5","5","I am  like MET a vine. You are  like MET the branches. All those who have a close relationship with me and with whom I have a close relationship will  do much that pleases God, like MET  a vine that bears much fruit.  Remember that you can do nothing HYP  that truly pleases God without my  help. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_6","073_15_6","JHN","15","6","6"," A gardener cuts off and throws away useless branches. Then, after they dry up,  he picks them up and throws them into a fire and burns them SIM. Similarly, everyone who does not remain having a close relationship with me,  God will get rid of. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_7","073_15_7","JHN","15","7","7","If you remain having a close relationship with me and you keep  living in accordance with my message, you can ask  God to do anything for you, and he will do it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_8","073_15_8","JHN","15","8","8","The way my Father is honored is by your {The way you honor my Father is by} doing much that pleases him MET, and by doing that, you will show that you are my disciples. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_9","073_15_9","JHN","15","9","9","I have loved you just as  my Father has loved me. Now keep living in  a way that is appropriate for those whom I love. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_10","073_15_10","JHN","15","10","10","If you obey what I have commanded you, you will be acting in  a way that is appropriate for those whom I love, just like I have obeyed what my Father has commanded me and I act  in a way that is appropriate for someone whom he loves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_11","073_15_11","JHN","15","11","11","I have told you these things so that you may be joyful as I  am joyful, and that you may be completely joyful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_12","073_15_12","JHN","15","12","12","What I am commanding you is this: Love each other just like I have loved you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_13","073_15_13","JHN","15","13","13","The best way that people can show that they love someone is to die for that person. There is no way that you can love someone in a greater way than that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_14","073_15_14","JHN","15","14","14","You  show that you are my friends if you keep doing what I have commanded you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_15","073_15_15","JHN","15","15","15","I will no longer call you my servants, because servants do not know  why their masters  want them to do things. Instead, I have said that you are my friends, because I,  acting like a friend, have revealed to you everything that my Father told me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_16","073_15_16","JHN","15","16","16","You did not decide to become my  disciples. Instead, I chose you, so that you would do many things that please him MET. The results of what you do will last  forever. I also chose you so that  my Father will do for you whatever you, using my authority, ask him to do MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_17","073_15_17","JHN","15","17","17"," I repeat what I have commanded you: Love each other.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_18","073_15_18","JHN","15","18","18","“The people who are opposed to God will hate you. When that happens, remember that they hated me first. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_19","073_15_19","JHN","15","19","19","If you belonged to those who are opposed to God MTY, they would love  you like they love those who belong to them. But you do not belong to those who are opposed to God MTY. Instead, I chose you so that you would separate yourselves from MTY them. That is why those who are opposed to God MTY hate you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_20","073_15_20","JHN","15","20","20","Remember these words that I told you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’  That means that you, who are like my servants, cannot expect people to treat you better than they treat me. So, since they have ◄persecuted me/caused me to suffer►, they will ◄persecute you/cause you to suffer► also. If they had paid attention to the things I taught them, they would pay attention to what you teach them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_21","073_15_21","JHN","15","21","21","They will treat you like that because you  belong to me MTY, and because they do not know the one who sent me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_22","073_15_22","JHN","15","22","22","If I had not come and spoken  God’s message to them, they would not be guilty  of rejecting me and my message. But now  I have come and told them God’s message, so they will have no excuse  when God judges them for their sin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_23","073_15_23","JHN","15","23","23","All those who hate me,  it is as though they hate my Father as well. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_24","073_15_24","JHN","15","24","24","If I had not done among them the  miracles that no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of the sin  of rejecting me. But now,  although they have seen  those miracles, they have hated both me and my Father. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_25","073_15_25","JHN","15","25","25","But this has happened in order that these words that have been written in their Scriptures might be fulfilled {to fulfill this that ◄someone/the Psalmist► wrote in their Scriptures}: ‘They hated me for no reason.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_26","073_15_26","JHN","15","26","26"," Later I will send to you from  my Father the one who will ◄encourage/be like a legal counsel for► you. He is the Spirit  who will teach you God’s truth. He will come from my Father. He will tell people about me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN15_27","073_15_27","JHN","15","27","27","But you  disciples must also tell people  about me, because you have been with me from the time when I started  my ministry MTY.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_1","073_16_1","JHN","16","1","1"," Jesus continued by saying to us, “I have told you these things in order that you will not stop trusting in me  when people ◄ cause you to suffer/persecute you►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_2","073_16_2","JHN","16","2","2","They will not allow you to worship in ◄synagogues/ their meeting places►. In fact, there will be a time when anyone who kills you will think that he is serving God  by doing that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_3","073_16_3","JHN","16","3","3","They will do such things because they have never known who I  really am, nor who  my Father  is. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_4","073_16_4","JHN","16","4","4","I have told you these things in order that when  they start ◄ to cause you to suffer/to  persecute you► MTY, you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you these things when you first started  to accompany me MTY because I was with you,  and they were causing trouble for me, not for you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_5","073_16_5","JHN","16","5","5","“Now I am  about to return to the one who sent me. But  I am disappointed that none of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_6","073_16_6","JHN","16","6","6","Instead, because I have told you these things, you are very sad. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_7","073_16_7","JHN","16","7","7","But the truth is that it is good for you that I am going away, because if I do not go away, the  Holy Spirit, who will ◄encourage/be like a legal counsel for► you will not come to you. But when I go, I will send him to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_8","073_16_8","JHN","16","8","8","When he comes, he will prove that those who do not belong to God MTY  are wrong about what is sinful and about who is really righteous and about whom  God will judge  and condemn for their sin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_9","073_16_9","JHN","16","9","9"," He will tell people that their greatest sin is that they do not believe in me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_10","073_16_10","JHN","16","10","10"," He will tell people that because I am going  back to my Father, and you will no longer see me,  you will know that I am the one who was truly righteous. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_11","073_16_11","JHN","16","11","11"," He will tell people that the fact that  God has already determined that  he will punish  Satan, the one who rules this world, shows that  some day God will also punish  those who do not belong to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_12","073_16_12","JHN","16","12","12","I have many more things that  I would like to tell you, but you are not able to accept them now. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_13","073_16_13","JHN","16","13","13","But  God’s Spirit is the one who will teach you  God’s truth. When he comes, he will guide you so that you  understand all  spiritual truth. He will not speak from his own  authority. Instead, it is the things that he hears  my Father say that he will tell you. He will also tell you about things that will happen  later. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_14","073_16_14","JHN","16","14","14","He will honor me by revealing my  truth to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_15","073_16_15","JHN","16","15","15","Everything that  my Father has is mine. That is why I said that the Spirit is able to reveal my truth to you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_16","073_16_16","JHN","16","16","16","“After a short time  I will leave you, and you will not see me. Then a short time  after that you will see me  again.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_17","073_16_17","JHN","16","17","17"," So some of us said to each other, “What does he mean by saying ‘After a short time you will not see me,’ and ‘A short time after that you will see me again’? And  what does he mean by ‘Because I am going back to  my Father’?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_18","073_16_18","JHN","16","18","18","We kept asking each other, “What  does he mean by saying ‘After a little while’? We do not understand what he is saying.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_19","073_16_19","JHN","16","19","19","Jesus realized that we wanted to ask him  about that. So he said to us, “You are asking RHQ each other  what I meant when I said, ‘After a short time you will not see me, and then a short time  after that you will see me  again.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_20","073_16_20","JHN","16","20","20","Listen to this carefully:  After I ◄ leave you/die►, those who oppose God MTY will be happy, but you will be sad. But  later you will stop being sad and you will become joyful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_21","073_16_21","JHN","16","21","21","A woman who is about to bear a child feels pain, because that is  what happens MTY  at that time. But after her baby is born, she forgets that pain, because she is very joyful that her child has been born. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_22","073_16_22","JHN","16","22","22","It will be the same with you.  I will soon die and you will be sad. But after that, I will see you again. Then you will be joyful, and no one will be able to stop you from being joyful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_23","073_16_23","JHN","16","23","23","When that happens, you will not ask me any questions  about anything. Listen to this carefully:  After that happens, my Father will do for you anything you ask, because of his relationship with me MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_24","073_16_24","JHN","16","24","24","Up to the present time, using my authority you have not asked  God to do anything for you MTY. Now keep asking  him for things that you need. If you do that, you will receive them, and then you will be completely joyful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_25","073_16_25","JHN","16","25","25","Although I have been speaking these things using figurative language, there will soon be a time when I will no longer use that kind of language. Instead, I will tell you plainly ◄about my Father/what my Father  wants►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_26","073_16_26","JHN","16","26","26","At that time, you will ask  him for things ◄because you belong to me/with my authority► MTY. I will not  need to ask  my Father to do what you ask. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_27","073_16_27","JHN","16","27","27"," My Father himself loves you because you have loved me and because you have believed that I came from God  my Father,  so he wants you to ask him (OR,  so he does not need anyone to persuade him  to help you) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_28","073_16_28","JHN","16","28","28","I came from  my Father into this world. Very soon I will be leaving this world and going  back to my Father.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_29","073_16_29","JHN","16","29","29","Then  we, his disciples, said, “Now you are speaking plainly, without using figurative language. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_30","073_16_30","JHN","16","30","30","Now we understand that you know everything. You do not need anyone to ask you questions  about anything, because you know what we want to ask before we ask you. That  also leads us to believe that you came from God.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_31","073_16_31","JHN","16","31","31","Jesus replied, “Now you RHQ say that you believe  that I came from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_32","073_16_32","JHN","16","32","32","But listen! There will soon be a time, and that time is already here, when you will all run away! Each of you will run away to your own home. You will leave me, and I will be alone. But I will not  really be alone  at that time, because  my Father is always with me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN16_33","073_16_33","JHN","16","33","33","I have told you these things in order that you may have  inner peace because of your relationship with me. In this world you will have trouble. But be courageous! I have defeated those who are opposed to me MTY, and  you can defeat them, too!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_1","073_17_1","JHN","17","1","1","After Jesus said those things, he looked  up toward heaven. Then he prayed, “ My Father, it is now the time MTY  for me to suffer and die. Honor me  as I do that, in order that I may honor you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_2","073_17_2","JHN","17","2","2","You gave me authority over all people, in order that I might enable all those whom you chose  to come to me to live eternally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_3","073_17_3","JHN","17","3","3"," The way for people to live eternally is for them to know that you are the only true God, and to know that  I, Jesus, am the Messiah, the one you have sent. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_4","073_17_4","JHN","17","4","4","I have honored you here on this earth by completing all the work that you gave me to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_5","073_17_5","JHN","17","5","5"," My Father, now honor me when I am with you  again, by causing me to have the greatness I had when I was with you before the world began.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_6","073_17_6","JHN","17","6","6","“I have revealed  what you  are like to the people whom you brought to me from among those who do not belong to you MTY. Those  who came to me belonged to you, and you brought them to me. Now they have obeyed your message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_7","073_17_7","JHN","17","7","7","Now they know that everything you have given me,  your message and your work, comes from you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_8","073_17_8","JHN","17","8","8","I gave them the message that you gave me, and they have accepted it. They now know for certain that I came from you. They now believe that you sent me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_9","073_17_9","JHN","17","9","9","I am praying for them. I am not praying for those  who do not belong to you MTY. Instead,  I am praying for those whom you have brought to me, because they belong to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_10","073_17_10","JHN","17","10","10","All  the disciples that I have belong to you, and all those who belong to you also belong to me. They have shown how great I am. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_11","073_17_11","JHN","17","11","11","I will not be  staying in the world any longer. I will be coming back to you. They, however, will be  here in the world  among those who are opposed to you.  My Holy Father, protect them from spiritual harm by your power MTY, the power that you gave me, in order that they may be united as we are united. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_12","073_17_12","JHN","17","12","12","While I have been with them, I have  completely protected them by the power MTY that you gave me. As a result, only one of them will be eternally separated from you. He is the one who was doomed to be eternally separated from you.  That has happened to fulfill  what a prophet wrote in the Scriptures  would happen. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_13","073_17_13","JHN","17","13","13"," Father, now I am about to return to you. I have said these things while I am still  here in the world in order that my  disciples may fully experience being joyful, as I have been joyful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_14","073_17_14","JHN","17","14","14","I have given them your message. As a result, those who are opposed to you MTY have hated them, because  my disciples do not belong to those who oppose you MTY, just like I do not belong to those who oppose you MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_15","073_17_15","JHN","17","15","15","I am asking you, not that you take them out of this world, but instead that you protect them from  Satan, the evil one. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_16","073_17_16","JHN","17","16","16","They do not belong to those who are opposed to you MTY, just like I also do not belong to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_17","073_17_17","JHN","17","17","17","Set  my disciples apart so that they may ◄completely belong to/serve► you, by enabling them to live in accordance with what is true. Your message is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_18","073_17_18","JHN","17","18","18","Just like you sent me here into this world, now I surely will be sending them  to other places in MTY the world. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_19","073_17_19","JHN","17","19","19","I dedicate myself to completely belong to you, in order that they also may truly be dedicated {dedicate themselves} completely to you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_20","073_17_20","JHN","17","20","20","“I am praying not only for these  eleven disciples. I am praying also for those who  will believe in me as a result of  hearing their message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_21","073_17_21","JHN","17","21","21"," My Father,  I want all of them to be united, just like I am united with you because of my relationship with you, and as you are united with me because of your relationship with me. I also want them to be united with us.  I want that to happen so that those who do not know you MTY may know that you sent me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_22","073_17_22","JHN","17","22","22","I have honored my disciples just like you honored me, in order that they may be united, as we are united. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_23","073_17_23","JHN","17","23","23","I want them to be united just like they are united with me and as you are united with me. May they be completely united, in order that those who do not belong to you MTY may know that you sent me and that you have loved them just like you have loved me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_24","073_17_24","JHN","17","24","24"," My Father, I want  the disciples you have brought to me to  some day be with me  in heaven, where I will be. I want them to see my greatness. I want them to see the greatness you gave me because you loved me. You gave me that greatness before you created the world. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_25","073_17_25","JHN","17","25","25"," My righteous Father, although the people who do not belong to you MTY do not know what you  are like, I know what you  are like, and my disciples know that you sent me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN17_26","073_17_26","JHN","17","26","26","I have revealed to them  what you  are like, and I will continue to reveal to them  what you  are like. I will do that in order that they may love  others just like you love me, and in order that I may be in them  by my Spirit.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_1","073_18_1","JHN","18","1","1","After Jesus finished praying, he went across the Kidron Brook, along with  us disciples, to a grove  of olive trees. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_2","073_18_2","JHN","18","2","2","Judas, who was  about to enable Jesus’ enemies to seize him, knew that  he would probably be there.  He knew that because Jesus often gathered there with us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_3","073_18_3","JHN","18","3","3","So Judas came to that grove. He was leading a troop of Roman  soldiers and some Temple guards who had been sent by the Pharisees and chief priests. They were carrying torches and lamps and weapons. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_4","073_18_4","JHN","18","4","4","Jesus knew everything that was about to happen to him. So  as they approached, he stepped forward and asked them, “Who are you looking for?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_5","073_18_5","JHN","18","5","5","They replied to him, “Jesus, the man from Nazareth.” He replied, “That is who I am.” Judas, the one who was enabling his enemies to seize him, was with them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_6","073_18_6","JHN","18","6","6","When Jesus told them, “That is who I am,” they lurched backward and fell down on the ground  because of his power. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_7","073_18_7","JHN","18","7","7","He asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus,  the man from Nazareth.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_8","073_18_8","JHN","18","8","8","Jesus replied, “I told you that I am Jesus. So since I am the one you are looking for, allow these  disciples of mine to go.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_9","073_18_9","JHN","18","9","9"," This happened in order that  when they did what he asked them to do, the words would be fulfilled that he had prayed, “I will never lose any of those whom God has brought to me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_10","073_18_10","JHN","18","10","10","Simon Peter had a  long dagger. So he drew it and  tried to kill the high priest’s servant,  but he only cut off the man’s right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_11","073_18_11","JHN","18","11","11","Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword  back into its sheath! ◄I must endure what  my Father wants me to suffer./Do you not think that I must endure what  my Father wants me to suffer?► MET, RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_12","073_18_12","JHN","18","12","12","Then the troop of soldiers, along with their commander and the Jewish Temple guards, seized Jesus. They tied his hands  behind his back. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_13","073_18_13","JHN","18","13","13","Then they took him first to Annas,  who was previously the high priest. He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas. Caiaphas was the high priest that year. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_14","073_18_14","JHN","18","14","14","Caiaphas was the one who  previously advised the Jewish  Council that it would be better if one man died for the sake of the people  than for all the people of the Jewish nation to die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_15","073_18_15","JHN","18","15","15","Simon Peter and  I were following Jesus. Because the high priest knew  me,  his doorkeeper permitted me to enter the courtyard. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_16","073_18_16","JHN","18","16","16","But Peter  had to wait outside near the doorway. However, since I knew the high priest, I went back to the doorway and spoke to the girl who was guarding the entrance. Then  she allowed Peter to come in. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_17","073_18_17","JHN","18","17","17","The servant girl who was guarding the doorway said to Peter, “Surely you are not another disciple of that man  they have arrested, are you?” He said, “I am not.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_18","073_18_18","JHN","18","18","18","It was cold, so the high priest’s slaves and Temple guards made a charcoal fire and were standing around it to keep warm. Peter was also standing near it, warming himself. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_19","073_18_19","JHN","18","19","19"," While Peter was doing that, the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about what he was teaching people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_20","073_18_20","JHN","18","20","20","Jesus replied, “I have always spoken where many people MTY, HYP could hear me. I have taught them in ◄the synagogues/their meeting places► and in the Temple courtyard, in places where many HYP Jews come together. I have spoken nothing secretly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_21","073_18_21","JHN","18","21","21"," So ◄why are you asking me questions  like this illegally?/you should not be asking me questions  like this illegally!► RHQ Ask the people who heard what I taught! They certainly know what I said!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_22","073_18_22","JHN","18","22","22","After Jesus said that, one of the Temple guards standing near him slapped him on his face. He said, “◄That is not the way you should answer the high priest!/Is that the way you should answer the high priest?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_23","073_18_23","JHN","18","23","23","Jesus replied to him, “If I said something that was contrary  to your laws, you could tell  me that what I said that was wrong. But because I said only what was right, ◄you should not be striking me!/why are you striking me?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_24","073_18_24","JHN","18","24","24","Then after Jesus’ hands were tied {after they tied Jesus hands}  again, Annas sent him to Caiaphas, the high priest. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_25","073_18_25","JHN","18","25","25","As Simon Peter was standing warming himself  at the fire, someone else said to him, “You are not one of that man’s disciples, are you?” He denied  that he was, and said, “I am not.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_26","073_18_26","JHN","18","26","26"," Later one of the high priest’s servants, a man who was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off  before, said to him, “I saw you with that man in the grove  of olive trees, did I not?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_27","073_18_27","JHN","18","27","27","Peter again denied it. Immediately a rooster crowed,  as Jesus had said would happen. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_28","073_18_28","JHN","18","28","28","Then the  Jewish leaders SYN led Jesus from the  home of Caiaphas to the headquarters  of Pilate, the Roman governor. It was before dawn. Pilate was a non-Jew,  and they thought that if they entered his headquarters, they would become unacceptable to God {God would reject them},  and as a result they would not be able to eat  the food during the Passover  celebration.  Because of that, they did not want to enter Pilate’s headquarters. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_29","073_18_29","JHN","18","29","29","So Pilate came out to  talk to them. He said, “What law do you say that this man has disobeyed?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_30","073_18_30","JHN","18","30","30"," They knew that Jesus had not disobeyed any Roman law, so they did not want to answer him. Instead, they said, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have brought him to you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_31","073_18_31","JHN","18","31","31","Then Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your own laws!” Then the Jewish  leaders SYN said, “ No! We want him executed, but we want you Romans to execute him, because we Jews have no right to execute anyone!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_32","073_18_32","JHN","18","32","32"," The Romans executed people by nailing them to a cross.  So, as a result of what  the Jewish leaders said, it was fulfilled { the Romans would fulfill} what Jesus had said previously about the way he was going to die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_33","073_18_33","JHN","18","33","33","Pilate then went back inside his headquarters. He summoned Jesus.  Because the Jewish leaders had said that Jesus claimed to be a king, Pilate said to Jesus scornfully, “Are you the king of the Jews?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_34","073_18_34","JHN","18","34","34","Jesus replied, “Are you asking that because you yourself  want to know if I claim to be a king, or because ◄someone else/Caiaphas► said  that I claim to be their king?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_35","073_18_35","JHN","18","35","35","Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew,  so ◄ I cannot understand these matters!/how can I understand these matters?► RHQ It was your fellow Jews and your chief priests who brought you to me! What have you done  to make them want to execute you?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_36","073_18_36","JHN","18","36","36","Jesus replied, “It is not people in MTY this world who are  making me king. If it was people in this world who were making me a king, my disciples would have fought in order that the Jewish  leaders SYN would be prevented {to prevent the Jewish  leaders SYN} from seizing me. But it is not  someone here in this world who is making me a king.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_37","073_18_37","JHN","18","37","37","Then Pilate said to him, “So  are you saying that you are a king?” Jesus replied, “ Yes, what you have said about my being a king  is correct. I was born to become a king, and I came into this world to tell people the truth  about God. Everyone who  believes the truth pays attention to what I say.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_38","073_18_38","JHN","18","38","38","Pilate said to him, “ How can anyone know what the truth is?” After he said that, he went outside and talked to the Jewish  leaders SYN again. He said to them, “I do not find that he has done anything at all for which I should punish him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_39","073_18_39","JHN","18","39","39","But you  Jews customarily,  every year during the Passover  celebration, ask me to release for you  someone who is in prison. So would you like for me to release for you the  man who you Jews  say is your king?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN18_40","073_18_40","JHN","18","40","40","They shouted again, “No, do not  release this man! Instead,  release Barrabas!” But Barrabas was  in prison because he was a revolutionist! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_1","073_19_1","JHN","19","1","1","Then Pilate took Jesus  inside and had soldiers ◄scourge Jesus/stike Jesus with a whip that had pieces of metal or bone fastened to it►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_2","073_19_2","JHN","19","2","2","The soldiers also took  some branches with thorns and wove them to make  something like a crown. Then they put it on his head. They also put a purple robe on him.  They did these things to ridicule him by pretending that he was a king. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_3","073_19_3","JHN","19","3","3","Then they kept coming to him and saying, “Hooray for the King of the Jews IRO!” and slapping him  on his face. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_4","073_19_4","JHN","19","4","4","Once more Pilate came outside and said to the crowd, “Look! I am bringing him out to you so that you may know that I do not find that he has done anything for which we should punish him  anymore.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_5","073_19_5","JHN","19","5","5","When Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Look at this  wretched man!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_6","073_19_6","JHN","19","6","6","When the chief priests and Temple guards saw him, they shouted, “Command your soldiers to kill him by nailing him to a cross! Crucify him!” Pilate,  knowing that they could not legally do it themselves, said to them, “You yourselves take him and nail him to a cross! As for me, I do not find that he has done anything for which we should punish him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_7","073_19_7","JHN","19","7","7","The Jewish  leaders SYN replied, “ Our ancestor Moses gave us the law that says we must kill anyone  who claims to be God. This man claims that he is ◄the Son of/the man who is also► God,  so you must have him killed { command your soldiers to kill him}.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_8","073_19_8","JHN","19","8","8","When Pilate heard that, he was more afraid  of what would happen to himself if he commanded the soldiers to kill Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_9","073_19_9","JHN","19","9","9","So he  took Jesus back inside the headquarters. He said to Jesus, “Where do you  really come from?” But Jesus did not answer him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_10","073_19_10","JHN","19","10","10","So Pilate said to him, “Are you refusing to answer me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you, and I  also have authority to  have you crucified {command my soldiers to crucify you}?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_11","073_19_11","JHN","19","11","11","Jesus replied, “The only authority you have is what has been given to you by God MTY {what God MTY has given you}. The  high priest put me into your hands.  He has done to me what he wanted to do, and you do not really want to do it. So he is guilty of committing a greater sin than you are.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_12","073_19_12","JHN","19","12","12","Because of that, Pilate kept trying to release Jesus. But the Jewish  leaders SYN, threatening to report to the Emperor that Pilate was not going to punish a man who claimed he was a king, continued to shout, “Anyone who claims that he is a king is opposing the Emperor! So if you release this man,  we will make sure that the Emperor learns about it, and then he will not consider you as his friend!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_13","073_19_13","JHN","19","13","13","When Pilate heard that, he brought Jesus out again. He sat down at the place where he made decisions  about punishing people. The place was called {People called it} The Stone Pavement. In the Aramaic language its name was Gabbatha. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_14","073_19_14","JHN","19","14","14","It was almost noontime, on the day that they prepared  things for the Passover  celebration (OR, the day before the  Sabbath during the Passover  celebration). Pilate said to the Jewish  leaders SYN, ridiculing them, “Look at your king!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_15","073_19_15","JHN","19","15","15","They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away!  Have him crucified {Command your soldiers to nail him to a cross}!” Pilate said to them, “ He is your king! Do you really want me to  tell my soldiers to nail him to a cross?” The chief priests replied, “The Emperor is our king! We do not have any other king!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_16","073_19_16","JHN","19","16","16","Then  at last Pilate agreed to do  what they wanted, and he told the soldiers to crucify Jesus. John 19:16b-24 Then the soldiers took Jesus away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_17","073_19_17","JHN","19","17","17"," As they left, he himself was carrying the cross  on which they were going to nail him. They went to a place called The Place of a Skull. In the Aramaic language it is called {they call it} Golgotha. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_18","073_19_18","JHN","19","18","18","There,  after removing most of his clothes, the soldiers nailed him to the cross. They also nailed two other  criminals to crosses. There was one on each side, and Jesus was in the middle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_19","073_19_19","JHN","19","19","19","Pilate also  had them write  on a board a notice  that stated why they were executing him, and fasten it to the cross. But all they wrote was ‘Jesus from Nazareth, the King of the Jews’. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_20","073_19_20","JHN","19","20","20","Many Jews were  able to read this sign, because the place where Jesus was nailed {where they nailed Jesus} to the cross was very close to  Jerusalem, where many people had come for the celebration, and because it was written {they wrote it} in three languages: Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_21","073_19_21","JHN","19","21","21","So the Jewish priests went back to Pilate and protested, saying to him, “Change what they have written from ‘The King of the Jews’ to ‘This man said that he is the King of the Jews’!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_22","073_19_22","JHN","19","22","22","Pilate replied, “What I  told them to write is what they have written,  and I will not  change it.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_23","073_19_23","JHN","19","23","23","After the soldiers nailed Jesus to the cross, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier. But they kept his cloak  separate. This cloak was without seam, woven  from top to bottom, one piece of cloth. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_24","073_19_24","JHN","19","24","24","So they said to each other, “Let’s not tear it. Instead, let’s  decide ◄ by throwing lots/ by gambling► who will get it.” So that is what the soldiers did. As a result, these words were fulfilled {they fulfilled these words} that  the Psalmist had written in Scripture, They divided  most of my clothes among themselves. They cast lots for  one piece of my clothing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_25","073_19_25","JHN","19","25","25","Near the cross where  they had nailed Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the  wife of Clopas, and  another Mary, the woman from Magdala  village. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_26","073_19_26","JHN","19","26","26","Jesus saw his mother standing there. He also saw me standing nearby. Then he said to his mother, “This man  will now be like your son.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_27","073_19_27","JHN","19","27","27","And he said to me, “ Treat this woman as MET your mother.” So from that time I took her to my home  and took care of her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_28","073_19_28","JHN","19","28","28","Later, Jesus knew that everything  that God sent him to do had now been completed {that he had now completed everything  that God sent him to do},  but he knew that something else that was written in the Scriptures  had to be fulfilled { that he had to fulfill  something else that they had written in the Scriptures}. So he said, “I am thirsty!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_29","073_19_29","JHN","19","29","29","There was a jar of sour wine there. So  someone took a stalk of  a plant called hyssop and  fastened a sponge  to it. Then he dipped  the sponge into the wine and lifted it up to Jesus’ lips. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_30","073_19_30","JHN","19","30","30","When Jesus tasted the sour wine, he shouted, “ I have finished  all that I came to do!” Then he bowed his head and ◄died/handed over his spirit  to God►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_31","073_19_31","JHN","19","31","31","That was the day that they prepared  everything for their ◄ Sabbath/day of rest►. The next day was a special day of rest,  because it was the day of rest during the Passover celebration. The Jewish  leaders SYN did not want the bodies  of the three men to remain on the cross during their ◄Sabbath/day of rest►  because leaving bodies hanging overnight would be contrary to their Jewish laws. So they went to Pilate and asked him  to command that the legs  of the three men on the crosses be broken {the  soldiers to break the legs  of the three men on the crosses},  so that they would die quickly. Then their  bodies could be taken down  and buried {someone could take down their bodies  and bury them}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_32","073_19_32","JHN","19","32","32","So,  after Pilate agreed, the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man whom they had nailed on a cross near Jesus. Then they broke the legs of the second man. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_33","073_19_33","JHN","19","33","33","But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead already. So they did not break his legs. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_34","073_19_34","JHN","19","34","34","Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear  to make sure that Jesus was dead. Immediately blood clots and  other liquid flowed out,  which showed that Jesus was really dead. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_35","073_19_35","JHN","19","35","35","I,  John, saw this myself, and what I am writing is true. I  know that I am telling the truth, and I am saying this in order that you may believe  in (OR,  my testimony about)  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_36","073_19_36","JHN","19","36","36","These things happened in order that these words would be fulfilled {to fulfill these words}  that are written in Scripture: “Not one of his bones will be broken {No one will break any of his bones}.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_37","073_19_37","JHN","19","37","37","And  they fulfilled another Scripture passage  that has these words: ‘They will look on the one whom they have pierced’. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_38","073_19_38","JHN","19","38","38","Later, Joseph, from Arimathea  town, went to Pilate and asked Pilate  to allow him to take Jesus’ body  down from the cross. Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but he did not tell anyone that, because he was afraid of the  other Jewish  leaders SYN. Pilate permitted him to take Jesus’ body, so he went, along  with others, and they took Jesus’ body  down from the cross. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_39","073_19_39","JHN","19","39","39","Nicodemus was one of them. He was the man who previously went to visit Jesus at night. Nicodemus bought an expensive mixture of myrrh and aloe  spices to put on the body. It weighed about ◄75 pounds/35 kilograms►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_40","073_19_40","JHN","19","40","40","They took the body of Jesus and wrapped strips of linen cloth around it, putting the spices in with the strips of cloth. They did this according to the Jewish customs  about burying bodies in tombs. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_41","073_19_41","JHN","19","41","41","Close to the place where Jesus was crucified {where they nailed Jesus to the cross} there was a grove  of trees, and  at the edge of that grove was a new burial cave. Nobody had ever been put in that cave  previously. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN19_42","073_19_42","JHN","19","42","42","The Jewish day of rest would start  at sunset, and they had to finish burying his body before then. So, since that cave was nearby, they laid Jesus’ body there  and rolled a huge stone in front of the entrance. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_1","073_20_1","JHN","20","1","1","Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary, the woman from Magdala  village, went to the  burial cave  with some other women. They saw that the stone had been removed {that someone had removed the stone} from the  entrance to the cave. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_2","073_20_2","JHN","20","2","2","So Mary ran to where Simon Peter and I  were staying in Jerusalem. She said to us, “They have taken the Lord’s  body out of the burial cave, and we do not know where they have put it!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_3","073_20_3","JHN","20","3","3","So Peter and I started going to the cave. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_4","073_20_4","JHN","20","4","4","We were both running, but I ran faster than Peter and got there first. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_5","073_20_5","JHN","20","5","5","I stooped down  at the entrance and looked inside. I saw the strips of linen cloth lying there  where his body had been laid, but I did not go inside. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_6","073_20_6","JHN","20","6","6","Then Simon Peter, who was running behind me, arrived. He went inside the cave. He, too, saw the strips of linen cloth lying there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_7","073_20_7","JHN","20","7","7","He also  saw the cloth that they had  wrapped around Jesus’ head. It had been folded and put {Someone had folded it and put it} aside, separate from the linen strips. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_8","073_20_8","JHN","20","8","8","Then I also went inside. I saw  those things and I believed  that Jesus had truly become alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_9","073_20_9","JHN","20","9","9","Before this happened, we did not understand from  what the prophets had written in the Scriptures, that he had to become alive again after he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_10","073_20_10","JHN","20","10","10","Then  we two disciples went back to where we were staying.  In the meantime, Mary  returned to the cave. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_11","073_20_11","JHN","20","11","11","As she stood outside the cave crying, she stooped down to look inside the cave. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_12","073_20_12","JHN","20","12","12","She saw two angels in very white  clothing, sitting at the place where Jesus’ body had been laid. One was where his head had been, and the other was where his feet had been. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_13","073_20_13","JHN","20","13","13","They said to her, “Woman, why are you crying?” She said to them, “They have taken away  the body of my Lord, and I do not know where they have put it!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_14","073_20_14","JHN","20","14","14","After she said that, she turned around and saw Jesus standing  there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_15","073_20_15","JHN","20","15","15","He said to her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?” Thinking that he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have taken his  body away, tell me where you have put it. Then I will get it  and bury it properly.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_16","073_20_16","JHN","20","16","16","Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned toward him  again and recognized him. Then she exclaimed in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” which means ‘Teacher’. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_17","073_20_17","JHN","20","17","17","Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to me, because I have not yet returned to my Father. Go to my disciples and tell them, ‘I am about to return to my Father and your Father, to the one who is my God and your God’.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_18","073_20_18","JHN","20","18","18","So Mary went to where  we disciples were and told us that she had seen the Lord  alive again. She also told us what Jesus said that she  should tell us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_19","073_20_19","JHN","20","19","19","On that Sunday evening  we disciples gathered together. The doors were locked { We locked the doors} because we were afraid that  the Jewish leaders SYN  might arrest us. Suddenly Jesus appeared miraculously and stood among us! He said to us, “May God give you  inner peace!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_20","073_20_20","JHN","20","20","20","After he said that, he showed us  the wounds in his hands and his side. We were very happy when we saw the Lord! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_21","073_20_21","JHN","20","21","21","Jesus said to us again, “May God give you peace! Just like  my Father sent me, now I am sending you  to proclaim my message.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_22","073_20_22","JHN","20","22","22","After saying that, he breathed on us and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_23","073_20_23","JHN","20","23","23","If you forgive people for their having sinned,  God will already have forgiven them. If you do not forgive them,  God has not forgiven them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_24","073_20_24","JHN","20","24","24","One of us disciples, Thomas, the one whom we called The Twin, was not with us when Jesus appeared to us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_25","073_20_25","JHN","20","25","25","When the rest of us told him that we had seen the Lord, he said to us, “If I do not see the marks of the nails in his hands and put my fingers in the place where the nails were, and put my hands into the place in his side  where the soldier thrust the spear, I will certainly not believe  that he was the one you saw!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_26","073_20_26","JHN","20","26","26","A week later we were in  the house again. This time Thomas was with us. Although the doors had been locked { we had locked the doors}, Jesus  again appeared miraculously and stood among us. He said, “May God give peace to you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_27","073_20_27","JHN","20","27","27","Then he  showed Thomas  his hands and said to him, “Put your finger here! Look at  the wounds in my hands! Reach out your hand and put it in  the wound in my side! Stop doubting LIT/DOU! Instead, believe  that I am alive again!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_28","073_20_28","JHN","20","28","28","Thomas answered him, “ You are truly my Lord and my God!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_29","073_20_29","JHN","20","29","29","Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed  that about me. But God  is truly pleased with those who have believed  that about me, even though they have not seen me!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_30","073_20_30","JHN","20","30","30"," We disciples saw Jesus perform many other miracles, but  I have not written about them in this book. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN20_31","073_20_31","JHN","20","31","31","But these  that I have written about, I have written about them in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, ◄the Son of God/the man who is also God►, and in order that you may have  eternal life  by trusting ◄in him/in what he  has done for you► MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_1","073_21_1","JHN","21","1","1","After that, Jesus showed himself to  us disciples when we were at Tiberias Lake,  which is another name for Galilee Lake. This is what happened: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_2","073_21_2","JHN","21","2","2","Simon Peter, Thomas who was called {whom  we called} The Twin, Nathaniel from Cana  town in Galilee, my older brother and I, and two other disciples were together. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_3","073_21_3","JHN","21","3","3","Simon Peter said to us, “ I am going to  try to catch some fish.” We said, “We will go with you.” So we went down  to the lake and got into the boat. But that night we caught nothing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_4","073_21_4","JHN","21","4","4","Early the next morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but we did not know that it was Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_5","073_21_5","JHN","21","5","5","He called out to us, “My friends, you have not  caught any fish, have you?” We answered, “You are correct,  we have not caught any.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_6","073_21_6","JHN","21","6","6","He said to us, “Throw your net out from the right-hand side of the boat! Then you will find some!” We did that, and we caught so many fish  in the net that we were unable to pull the net into  the boat! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_7","073_21_7","JHN","21","7","7"," But I knew that it was Jesus,  so I said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” Peter had taken off his cloak  while he was working, but as soon as he heard  me say “It is the Lord!” he wrapped his cloak around himself and jumped into the water  and swam to shore. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_8","073_21_8","JHN","21","8","8","The rest of us came  to the shore in the boat, pulling the net full of fish. We were not far from shore, only about 100 yards/meters. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_9","073_21_9","JHN","21","9","9","When  we got to the shore, we saw that there was a fire of burning coals there, with a  large fish on the fire, and  some buns. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_10","073_21_10","JHN","21","10","10","Jesus said to us, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_11","073_21_11","JHN","21","11","11","Simon Peter got in  the boat and dragged the net to the shore. It was full of large fish. There were 153 of them! But in spite of there being so many fish, the net was not torn. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_12","073_21_12","JHN","21","12","12","Jesus said to us, “Come and eat some breakfast!” None of us dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because we knew that it was the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_13","073_21_13","JHN","21","13","13","Jesus took the buns and gave them to us. He did the same with the fish. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_14","073_21_14","JHN","21","14","14","That was the third time that Jesus appeared to  us disciples after  God caused him to become alive again after he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_15","073_21_15","JHN","21","15","15","When we had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “John’s  son Simon, do you love me more than these  other disciples do?” Peter said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me (OR, that I love you).” Jesus said, “Give to  those who belong to me  what they need spiritually, like MET  a shepherd provides food for his lambs.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_16","073_21_16","JHN","21","16","16","Jesus said to him again, “John’s  son Simon, do you love me?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me (OR, that I love you).” Jesus said to him, “Take care of  those who belong to me,  like MET a  shepherd takes care of his sheep.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_17","073_21_17","JHN","21","17","17","Jesus said to him a third time, “John’s son Simon, am I really dear to you (OR, do you really love me)?” Peter was grieved because Jesus asked him this three times,  and because the third time he changed the question. He said, “Lord, you know everything. You know that you are dear to me (OR, that I love you).” Jesus said, “Give to  those who belong to me  what they need spiritually, as MET  a shepherd provides food for  his sheep. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_18","073_21_18","JHN","21","18","18","Now listen to this carefully: When you were young, you put your clothes on by yourself, and you went wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old, you will stretch out your arms, and someone will fasten them  with a rope and will lead you to a place where you do not want to  go.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_19","073_21_19","JHN","21","19","19","Jesus said this to indicate how Peter would die ◄ violently/on a cross► in order to honor God. Then Jesus said to him, “Keep being my faithful disciple  until you die.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_20","073_21_20","JHN","21","20","20","Peter turned around and saw that I was following them. I was the one who leaned close to Jesus during the  Passover meal and said, “Lord, who is going to enable your enemies to seize you?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_21","073_21_21","JHN","21","21","21","When Peter saw me, he asked, “Lord, what  is going to happen to him?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_22","073_21_22","JHN","21","22","22","Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain  alive until I return, ◄that is not your concern!/what is that to you?► RHQ You be my  faithful disciple!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_23","073_21_23","JHN","21","23","23","Some of the other believers heard  a report of what Jesus had said about me, and  they thought that Jesus meant that I would not die. But Jesus did not say that I would not die. He said only, “If I want him to remain  alive until I return, ◄that is not your concern!/what is that to you?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_24","073_21_24","JHN","21","24","24"," I, John, am the disciple who has seen all these things and I have written them down. My  fellow apostles and I know that what  I have written is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JN21_25","073_21_25","JHN","21","25","25","Jesus did many other things. If they would  all be written {If people would write them  all} down  in detail, I suppose that the whole world would not have enough space HYP to contain the books that would be written {that they would write}  about what he did. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_1","074_1_1","ACT","1","1","1"," Dear Theophilus, In my first book  that I wrote for you, I wrote about many of the things that Jesus did and taught ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_2","074_1_2","ACT","1","2","2","until the day on which he was taken { God took him} up  to heaven. Before  he went to heaven, saying what the Holy Spirit  told him, he told the apostles whom he had chosen  the things that he wanted them to know. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_3","074_1_3","ACT","1","3","3","After he had suffered  and died on the cross,  he became alive again. As he appeared to them  often during  the next 40 days, the apostles saw him many times. He proved to them in many ways that he was alive again. He talked  with them about  how God would rule MET  the lives of people who accepted him as their king. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_4","074_1_4","ACT","1","4","4"," One time while he was with them, he told them, “Do not leave Jerusalem  yet. Instead, wait  here until my Father sends  his Spirit MTY  to you, as he promised  to do. You have heard me speak  to you about that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_5","074_1_5","ACT","1","5","5","John baptized people in water  because they said that they wanted to change their lives, but after a few days LIT  God will put the Holy Spirit within you(pl)  to truly change your lives.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_6","074_1_6","ACT","1","6","6","One day when the apostles met together  with Jesus, they asked him, “Lord, will you (sg) now become the King MET over  us Israelite people  like King David, who ruled long ago?” (OR, “Lord, will you (sg) now  defeat the Romans and restore the kingdom  to us Israelite people?”) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_7","074_1_7","ACT","1","7","7","He replied to them, “You do not  need to know the time  periods and days  when that will happen. My Father alone has decided  when he will make me king. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_8","074_1_8","ACT","1","8","8","But  you do need to know that the Holy Spirit will make you  spiritually strong when he comes to live in you. Then you will powerfully tell people about me in Jerusalem and in all  the other places in Judea  district, in Samaria  district, and in places far away all over IDM the world.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_9","074_1_9","ACT","1","9","9","After he said that, he was taken { God took him} up  to heaven, while they were watching.  He went up into a cloud PRS, which prevented them from seeing him  anymore. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_10","074_1_10","ACT","1","10","10","While  the apostles were  still staring towards the sky as he was going up, suddenly two men who were wearing white clothes stood beside them.  They were angels. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_11","074_1_11","ACT","1","11","11","One  of them said, “You men from Galilee  district, ◄you do not need to stand  here any longer looking up at the sky!/why do you still stand  here looking up at the sky?► RHQ  Some day this same Jesus, whom  God took from you up to heaven, will come back  to earth. He will return in the same manner as you  just now saw him when he went up to heaven,  but he will not return now.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_12","074_1_12","ACT","1","12","12","Then  after the two angels left, the apostles returned to Jerusalem from Olive  Tree Hill, which was about ◄a half mile/one kilometer► MTY from Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_13","074_1_13","ACT","1","13","13","When they entered  the city, they went upstairs to the room  in the house where they were staying.  Those who were there included Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew,  another James  the son of Alphaeus, Simon who belonged to the group that wanted to expel the Romans, and Judas  the son of  another man named James. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_14","074_1_14","ACT","1","14","14","All these apostles agreed concerning the things about which they continually were praying  together. Others who prayed with them included the women  who had accompanied Jesus, Mary who was Jesus’ mother, and his  younger brothers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_15","074_1_15","ACT","1","15","15","During those days Peter stood up among his fellow believers. There were  at that place a group of about 120 of Jesus’ followers. Peter said, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_16","074_1_16","ACT","1","16","16","“My fellow believers,  there are words that King David wrote MTY in the Scriptures long ago that needed to be fulfilled {to happen  as he said they would}. The Holy Spirit,  who knew that Judas would be the one who would fulfill those words, told David what to write. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_17","074_1_17","ACT","1","17","17"," Although Judas had been chosen { Jesus had chosen Judas}, along with  the rest of us (exc) to serve  as an apostle, Judas was the person who led to Jesus the people who seized him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_18","074_1_18","ACT","1","18","18"," The Jewish leaders gave Judas money when he  promised to treacherously/wickedly  betray Jesus. Later Judas returned that money to them. When Judas  hanged himself, his body fell down  to the ground. His abdomen burst open, and all his intestines spilled out.  So the  Jewish leaders bought a field  using that money. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_19","074_1_19","ACT","1","19","19","All the people who reside in Jerusalem heard  about that, so they called that field in their own  Aramaic language, Akeldama, which means ‘Field of Blood’,  because it was where someone bled and died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_20","074_1_20","ACT","1","20","20"," Peter also said, “ I perceive that what happened to Judas is like what the writer of Psalms  desired to happen: ‘May his house become deserted, and may there be no one to live in it.’ (OR, ‘ Judge him, Lord, so that neither he nor anyone  else may live in his house!)’ And it seems that  these other words that David wrote also refer to Judas: ‘Let someone else take over his work as a leader.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_21","074_1_21","ACT","1","21","21","“So it is necessary  for us apostles to choose a man  to replace Judas. He must be one who accompanied MTY us all the time when the Lord Jesus was with us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_22","074_1_22","ACT","1","22","22"," That would be from  the time when John  the Baptizer baptized  Jesus until the day when Jesus was taken {when  God took Jesus} from us up  to heaven. He must be one who saw Jesus alive again  after he died.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_23","074_1_23","ACT","1","23","23","So the apostles and other believers suggested  the names of two men who qualified. One man was Joseph, who was called {whom people called} Barsabbas (OR, Joseph Barsabbas) who  also had the Roman name Justus. The other man was Matthias. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_24","074_1_24","ACT","1","24","25","Then they prayed like this: “Lord Jesus, Judas stopped being an apostle.  He died and went to the place where he  deserved to be EUP.  So we(exc) need to choose someone to replace Judas in order that he can serve  you(sg) by becoming an apostle. You (sg) know what everyone is really like. So  please show us which of these two men you have chosen.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC1_26","074_1_26","ACT","1","26","26","Then they cast lots  to choose between the two of them, and the lot fell for Matthias. (OR, Then  one of the apostles shook  in a container small objects/stones  that they  had marked to determine which man God had chosen. And the small object/stone  that they had marked for Matthias fell  out of the container). So Matthias was considered {they considered Matthias}  to be an apostle along with the  other eleven apostles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_1","074_2_1","ACT","2","1","1","On the day when  the Jews were celebrating the Pentecost  festival, the believers were all together in one place  in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_2","074_2_2","ACT","2","2","2","Suddenly  they heard a noise  coming from the sky  that sounded like a strong wind. Everyone in the entire house where they were sitting heard the noise. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_3","074_2_3","ACT","2","3","3","Then they saw  what looked like flames of fire. These flames separated  from one another, and  one of them came down on  the head of each of the believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_4","074_2_4","ACT","2","4","4","Then all of the believers were ◄completely controlled/empowered► by the Holy Spirit {the Holy Spirit ◄completely controlled/empowered► all of the believers}, and he enabled them to begin speaking other languages MTY  that they had not learned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_5","074_2_5","ACT","2","5","5","At that time  many Jews were staying in Jerusalem  to celebrate the Pentecost festival. They were people who always tried to obey  the Jewish laws.  They had come from many different HYP countries. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_6","074_2_6","ACT","2","6","6","When they heard that  loud noise  like a wind, a crowd came together  to the place where the believers were. The crowd ◄was amazed/did not know what to think►, because each of them was hearing  one of the believers speaking in that person’s own language. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_7","074_2_7","ACT","2","7","7","They were completely amazed, and they said  to each other, “All these men who are speaking have RHQ  always resided in Galilee  district, so they would not know our languages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_8","074_2_8","ACT","2","8","8","◄ We(inc) do not understand how these men can speak our own native languages!/How can these men speak our own native languages?► RHQ  But all of us hear them  doing that ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_9","074_2_9","ACT","2","9","9"," Some of us are from the regions of Parthia and Media and Elam, and  others of us reside  in the regions of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_10","074_2_10","ACT","2","10","10","There are some from Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the regions in Libya  that are near Cyrene  city.  There are others of us who are  here visiting  Jerusalem from Rome. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_11","074_2_11","ACT","2","11","11"," They include native Jews as well as non-Jews who have accepted what we Jews believe. And others of us are from Crete  Island and from  the region of Arabia.  So how is it that these people are speaking our languages MTY, telling us  about ◄the great/the mighty things►  that God has done?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_12","074_2_12","ACT","2","12","12","All  those people were amazed, and did not know what to think  about what was happening. So they asked one another, “What does this mean?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_13","074_2_13","ACT","2","13","13","But  some of them ◄made fun of/laughed at►  those who believed in Jesus. They said, “ These people are talking like this because they are drunk!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_14","074_2_14","ACT","2","14","14","So Peter stood up with the  other eleven apostles and spoke loudly to the  crowd of people, saying, “ My fellow Jews and you  others who are staying in Jerusalem, listen to me, all of you, and I will explain to you what is happening! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_15","074_2_15","ACT","2","15","15"," Some of  you think that  we(exc) are drunk, but we are not drunk. It is  only  nine o’clock in the morning,  and people here never get drunk this early in the day! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_16","074_2_16","ACT","2","16","16","Instead,  what has happened to us is the  miraculous thing that the prophet Joel wrote about  long ago.  Joel wrote: God says, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_17","074_2_17","ACT","2","17","17","‘During the last/final days  before I judge all people, I will give my Spirit abundantly/generously to people SYN everywhere.  As a result, your sons and daughters will tell  people messages from me, the young men among you will see visions  from me, and the old men among you will have dreams  that I will give them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_18","074_2_18","ACT","2","18","18","During those days I will abundantly/generously give my Spirit  even to men and women believers  who are my slaves/servants, so they can tell  people messages from me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_19","074_2_19","ACT","2","19","19","I will cause amazing things to happen in the sky, and I will do miracles on the earth that will show  that I am powerful.  Here on the earth CHI I  will cause wars with blood, fire and thick/dark smoke  everywhere. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_20","074_2_20","ACT","2","20","20"," In the sky the sun will  appear dark  to people and the moon  will appear red  to them. Those things will happen before the important and splendid/amazing day MTY  when I, the Lord  God, will come to judge everyone. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_21","074_2_21","ACT","2","21","21"," Before that time, all those who ask  me MTY  to save them from the guilt of their sins will be saved { I, the Lord, will save all those who ask  me MTY  to save them from the guilt of their sins.}’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_22","074_2_22","ACT","2","22","22"," Peter continued, “ My fellow  Israelites, listen to me!  When  Jesus from Nazareth  town lived  among you, God proved to you  that he had sent him  by enabling him to do many amazing miracles. You yourselves know  that this is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_23","074_2_23","ACT","2","23","23"," Even though you knew that, you turned this man  Jesus over to his enemies.  However, God had already planned for that, and he knew all about it. Then you urged men SYN who do not obey  God’s law to kill Jesus. They did that by nailing him to a cross. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_24","074_2_24","ACT","2","24","24","He suffered terribly  when he died, but God caused him to become alive again. God did not let him continue to be dead, because it was not possible for him PRS to remain dead.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_25","074_2_25","ACT","2","25","25","“ Long ago King David wrote  what the Messiah  said, “ knew  that you, Lord  God, would always be near me. You are right beside MTY me, so I will not be afraid of  those who want to harm me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_26","074_2_26","ACT","2","26","26","Because of that I SYN joyfully praise  you, O God. And I am completely confident that  you(sg) will ◄ cause my body to become alive  again/ raise me from the dead►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_27","074_2_27","ACT","2","27","27","You will not allow my spirit to remain in the place where the dead are. You will not  even let my body decay,  because I am devoted to you and always obey  you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_28","074_2_28","ACT","2","28","28","You have told me  that you will cause my body to become alive  again. You will make me very happy  because you will be with me  forever.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_29","074_2_29","ACT","2","29","29"," Peter continued, “My fellow Jews, I can tell you confidently that  our royal ancestor,  King David, died, and that his  body was buried {that  people buried his  body}. And the place  where they buried his body is  still here today. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_30","074_2_30","ACT","2","30","30","So  we(inc) know that David was not speaking those words about himself. But because he was a prophet,  he spoke about the Messiah. David knew that God had strongly promised him that he would cause one of his descendants to become king MTY like David was king. (OR, to  be the Messiah who would rule  God’s people like David had ruled  them.) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_31","074_2_31","ACT","2","31","31","David knew beforehand  what God would do, so he  was able to say that God would cause the Messiah to live again  after he died. He said that God would not let the Messiah remain in the place of the dead, nor let his body decay.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_32","074_2_32","ACT","2","32","32","“ After this  man Jesus  had died, God caused him to become alive  again. All of us(exc),  his followers, have seen  and tell people that Jesus has become alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_33","074_2_33","ACT","2","33","33","God has greatly honored Jesus  by causing him to rule right beside him MTY  in heaven. Jesus has received the Holy Spirit from  God his Father,  just like God promised.  So Jesus has generously/abundantly given us the Holy Spirit,  and he has shown that by what you are seeing and hearing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_34","074_2_34","ACT","2","34","34"," We(inc) know that David was not speaking about himself because David did not go up into heaven  as Jesus did.  Besides that, David himself said  this about the Messiah: The Lord  God said to my Lord  the Messiah, ‘Reign here beside me, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_35","074_2_35","ACT","2","35","35","while I completely defeat MTY your enemies.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_36","074_2_36","ACT","2","36","36"," Peter concluded, “So I  want you and all  other Israelites MTY to acknowledge that God has caused this Jesus to be both  our Lord/Ruler and the Messiah.  But God considers that you are the ones who nailed Jesus to a cross.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_37","074_2_37","ACT","2","37","37","When the people heard what  Peter said, they felt very guilty IDM. So they asked him and the other apostles, “Fellow-countrymen, what should we (exc) do  so that God will forgive us?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_38","074_2_38","ACT","2","38","38","Peter  answered them, “Each of you should turn away from your sinful behavior. Then  we(exc) will baptize you, if  you now believe in Jesus Christ. Then  God will give you the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_39","074_2_39","ACT","2","39","39"," God has promised  to do that MTY for you and your descendants, and for all  others who believe in him, even those who  live far away  from here. The Lord our God  will give his Spirit to everyone whom he invites  to become his people!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_40","074_2_40","ACT","2","40","40","Peter spoke much more  and spoke strongly/forcefully to them. He pleaded with them, “ Ask God to save you  so that he will not punish you when he punishes these evil people  who have rejected Jesus!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_41","074_2_41","ACT","2","41","41","So the people who believed Peter’s message were baptized. There were about 3,000 SYN  who  joined the group  of believers  that day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_42","074_2_42","ACT","2","42","42","They continually obeyed what the apostles taught, and they very frequently met together  with the other believers. And they continually ate  together and celebrated the Lord’s Supper, and continually prayed  together. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_43","074_2_43","ACT","2","43","43","All the people SYN  who were in Jerusalem were greatly revering  God because the apostles were frequently doing many kinds of miraculous things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_44","074_2_44","ACT","2","44","44","All of those who believed  in Jesus were united  and regularly met together. They were also sharing everything that they had with one another. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_45","074_2_45","ACT","2","45","45"," From time to time some of them sold  some of their land and  some of the other things that they owned, and they would give  some of the money  from what they sold to others  among them, according to what they needed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_46","074_2_46","ACT","2","46","46","Every day they continued meeting together in the temple  area. And every day they gladly and generously shared their food SYN  with each other, as they ate together  and celebrated the Lord’s Supper in their houses. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC2_47","074_2_47","ACT","2","47","47"," As they did so, they were praising God, and all the  other people  in Jerusalem were  thinking favorably about them.  As those things were happening, every day the Lord  Jesus increased the number of people who were being saved {whom he was saving}  from the guilt of their sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_1","074_3_1","ACT","3","1","1"," One day Peter and John were going to the Temple  courtyard. It was three o’clock in the afternoon, which was the time when people prayed  there publicly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_2","074_3_2","ACT","3","2","2","There was a man there who had been lame from the time he was born. He  was sitting by the gate called Beautiful  Gate, at the entrance to the Temple  area. People put him there every day, so that he could ask those who were entering  or leaving the temple courtyard to give him some money. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_3","074_3_3","ACT","3","3","3","As Peter and John were about to enter  the Temple courtyard, the lame man saw them and asked them several times to give him some money. (OR, The lame man said to them several times, “Please give me some money!”) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_4","074_3_4","ACT","3","4","4","As Peter and John looked directly at him, Peter said to him, “Look at us!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_5","074_3_5","ACT","3","5","5","So he looked directly at them, expecting to get some  money from them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_6","074_3_6","ACT","3","6","6","Then Peter said to him, “I do not have any money MTY, but what I  can do, I will  do for you. Jesus Christ,  who was from Nazareth  town, has authorized MTY me  to heal you! So get up and walk!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_7","074_3_7","ACT","3","7","7","Then Peter grasped the man’s right hand and helped him to stand up. Immediately the man’s feet and ankles became strong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_8","074_3_8","ACT","3","8","8","He jumped up and began to walk! Then he entered the Temple  area with them, walking and leaping and praising God! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_9","074_3_9","ACT","3","9","9","All the people  there saw that man walking and praising God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_10","074_3_10","ACT","3","10","10","They recognized that he was the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate in the Temple  courtyard and ask  people for money! So all the people there were greatly amazed at what had happened to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_11","074_3_11","ACT","3","11","11","As the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were so surprised  that they did not know what to think So they ran to the two apostles at the place  in the Temple courtyard that is called {that  people call} Solomon’s Porch. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_12","074_3_12","ACT","3","12","12","When Peter saw that, he said to the crowd, “Fellow Israelites, ◄you should not be surprised about what has happened to this man!/why are you so surprised about what has happened to this man?► RHQ And you should not stare at us, either! You seem to RHQ think that the two of us enabled this man to walk because we (exc) ourselves are powerful or because we please God very much! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_13","074_3_13","ACT","3","13","13"," So I will tell you what is really happening. Our ancestors, including Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, worshipped God. And now he has greatly honored Jesus, who always served him. Your  leaders brought Jesus  to the governor, Pilate, so that  his soldiers would kill him. And  God considers that in front of Pilate you  were the ones who rejected Jesus  as your king, after Pilate had decided that he should release Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_14","074_3_14","ACT","3","14","14"," Although Jesus always did what was right/just and good, you rejected him. Pilate wanted to release him, but you urgently asked Pilate to release ◄a murderer/someone who had killed people►! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_15","074_3_15","ACT","3","15","15"," God considers that you killed  Jesus, the one who gives people  eternal life. But God has greatly honored him ◄by causing him to become alive again after he died/by raising him from the dead►. Many of us saw  him after that, and now we (exc) are telling  you about it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_16","074_3_16","ACT","3","16","16","It is because  we two trusted in what Jesus MTY, PRS  could do, that he made this man, whom you see and know, strong again. Yes, it is because we (exc) trusted in Jesus that he has completely healed this man for all of you to see.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_17","074_3_17","ACT","3","17","17","“Now, my fellow-countrymen, I know that you and your leaders did that  to Jesus because you  and they did not know  that he was the Messiah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_18","074_3_18","ACT","3","18","18","However,  your putting him to death was what God had predicted that people would do.  Long ago he told all the prophets MTY to write  what people would do to the Messiah. They wrote that the Messiah, whom God  would send, would suffer  and die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_19","074_3_19","ACT","3","19","19","So, turn away from your sinful behavior and ask God  to help you do what pleases  him, in order that he may completely forgive you for your sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_20","074_3_20","ACT","3","20","20"," If you do that, there will be times  when you will know that the Lord  God is helping  you. And some day he will  again send back  to earth the Messiah, whom he appointed for you. That person is Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_21","074_3_21","ACT","3","21","21","Jesus must stay in heaven until the time when God will cause all that he has created to become new. Long ago God promised  to do that, and he chose holy prophets to tell  that to people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_22","074_3_22","ACT","3","22","22","For  example, the prophet Moses said  this about the Messiah: ‘The Lord ◄your God/the God whom you  worship► will cause someone to become a prophet to tell you  God’s message. God will send him as  he sent me,  and he will be from among your own people. You must listen to everything that this prophet tells you  and obey him SYN. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_23","074_3_23","ACT","3","23","23"," Those who do not listen to  that prophet and obey him will no longer belong to God’s people, and  God will get rid of them’.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_24","074_3_24","ACT","3","24","24"," Peter continued, “All the prophets have told  about what would happen during the time MTY  in which we(inc) are living. Those prophets include Samuel  and all the others who later also spoke  about these events before they happened. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_25","074_3_25","ACT","3","25","25","You  as well as we(exc) are the people  to whom God sent the Messiah, as the prophets said MTY  that he would. And when God strongly promised  to bless our ancestors, he also surely promised to bless you. He said to Abraham  concerning the Messiah, ‘ I will bless all people on the earth as a result of  what your descendant  will do.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC3_26","074_3_26","ACT","3","26","26","Peter concluded, “ So when God sent  to the earth ◄Jesus, the one who always obeys him/his servant Jesus►, he sent him first to you  Israelites to bless you.  God will enable you to stop doing what is wicked  and to start doing what pleases him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_1","074_4_1","ACT","4","1","1"," Meanwhile, in the temple courtyard, there were some priests, the officer who was in charge of the temple police, and  also some SYN Sadducee sect members. These men came to Peter and John while the two of them were speaking to the people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_2","074_4_2","ACT","4","2","2","These men were very angry, because the  two apostles were teaching the people  about Jesus. What they were telling the people was that because ◄ God caused Jesus to become alive again/God raised Jesus  from the dead►,  God would cause other people who had died to become alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_3","074_4_3","ACT","4","3","3","So those officials seized Peter and John. Then they put them in jail.  They had to wait until the next day  to question Peter and John, because it was already evening  and it was contrary to their Jewish law to question people at night. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_4","074_4_4","ACT","4","4","4","However, many people who had heard the message  from Peter believed  in Jesus. (OR, But many people had  already believed  in Jesus, because they had heard the message  from Peter.) So the number of men  who believed in Jesus increased to about five 5,000. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_5","074_4_5","ACT","4","5","5","The next day  the supreme priest summoned the  other chief priests, the teachers of the  Jewish laws, and the other members  of the Jewish Council, and they gathered together  in one place in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_6","074_4_6","ACT","4","6","6","Annas,  the former supreme priest, Caiaphas  who was the new supreme priest,  two other former supreme priests whose names were John and Alexander, and other men who were related to the supreme priest  were there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_7","074_4_7","ACT","4","7","7","They  commanded guards to bring Peter and John into the courtroom MTY and have them stand in front of them.  Then one of the leaders questioned  the two of them, saying, “Who  do you two claim gave you the power  to heal this man? And who authorized MTY you to do this DOU?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_8","074_4_8","ACT","4","8","8","So as the Holy Spirit completely controlled Peter, he said to them, “You  fellow Israelites who rule us and  all of you other elders,  listen! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_9","074_4_9","ACT","4","9","9","Today you are questioning us concerning our doing something good for a man who was crippled, and you asked us how he was healed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_10","074_4_10","ACT","4","10","10","So  we(exc) want you and all  of our other fellow Israelites to know this: It is because Jesus the Messiah MTY from Nazareth healed this man that he is able to stand here.  God considers that it was you who nailed Jesus to a cross, but God caused him to become alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_11","074_4_11","ACT","4","11","11"," In the Psalms this was written about the Messiah: He is  like MET the stone that was rejected by the builders {that the builders rejected}. But that stone became the most important stone in the building  that they were building.  Jesus is that stone, and you  are those builders who threw away the stone that was the most important one. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_12","074_4_12","ACT","4","12","12","So he alone can save us MTY.  God has sent only one person MTY into the world who can save us  from the guilt of our sins, and that person is Jesus!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_13","074_4_13","ACT","4","13","13","The  Jewish leaders realized that Peter and John ◄were not afraid  of them/spoke boldly►. They also learned that the two men were ordinary people who had not studied in schools. So the leaders were amazed, and they realized that these men had associated with Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_14","074_4_14","ACT","4","14","14","They also saw the man who had been healed standing there with  the two of them, so they were not able to say anything  to oppose Peter and John. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_15","074_4_15","ACT","4","15","15","So the  Jewish leaders commanded  guards to take Peter, John, and the man outside of the room  where those leaders were meeting. After they did so, the leaders talked with each other  about Peter and John. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_16","074_4_16","ACT","4","16","16"," Being frustrated, one after another, they said, “◄There is really nothing that we can do to  punish these  two men!/How can we (inc) do anything to  punish these  two men?► RHQ Almost everyone HYP who is living in Jerusalem knows that they have done an amazing miracle, so we cannot tell people that it did not happen! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_17","074_4_17","ACT","4","17","17","However,  we must not allow other people to hear about  this miracle. So we must tell these men that  we will punish them if they continue to tell other people about this MTY man  who they say gave them the power to do it.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_18","074_4_18","ACT","4","18","18","So the Jewish leaders  commanded guards to bring the two apostles  into that room again. After they did so, they  commanded them both that they should never speak about Jesus, and they should not teach  anyone about him MTY  again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_19","074_4_19","ACT","4","19","19","But Peter and John replied, “Would God think that it is right  for us two to obey you and not  to obey him?  We(exc) will let you decide  which of those you think is proper. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_20","074_4_20","ACT","4","20","20"," But as for us, we cannot obey you. We will not stop telling people about the things that we (exc) have seen  Jesus do and what we have heard  him teach.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_21","074_4_21","ACT","4","21","22","Then the  Jewish leaders again told Peter and John not to disobey them. But all the people  there were praising God about what had happened  to the lame man. The leaders knew that only God could have enabled Peter and John to miraculously heal the man, because the man was more than 40 years old  and he was lame when his mother bore him. They also knew that the people would become angry if they punished the two apostles. So, because they could not decide how to punish Peter and John,  they finally let them go. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_23","074_4_23","ACT","4","23","23","After Peter and John had been released, they went to the other believers and reported all that the chief priests and  other Jewish elders had said to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_24","074_4_24","ACT","4","24","24","When they heard that, they  all agreed as they prayed to God, and  one of them prayed, “O Lord! You (sg) made the sky, the earth and the oceans, and everything in them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_25","074_4_25","ACT","4","25","25","The Holy Spirit caused our ancestor,  King  David MTY, who served you, to write these words:  It is ridiculous  RHQ that the non-Jews became angry and the Israelite people planned uselessly  to oppose God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_26","074_4_26","ACT","4","26","26","The kings of the world prepared to fight  God’s Ruler, and the  other rulers assembled together  with them to oppose the Lord  God and the one whom he had appointed  to be the Messiah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_27","074_4_27","ACT","4","27","27"," Lord, we know that what you(sg) said long ago was true, because  King Herod and the  governor, Pontius Pilate, and many other people, both non-Jews and Israelites, assembled together  here in this city.  They planned  to kill Jesus, who devotedly served you  and whom you appointed MTY  to be the Messiah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_28","074_4_28","ACT","4","28","28"," Because you (sg) are all-powerful, those people did  only what you SYN allowed  them to do. It was what you decided long ago would happen.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_29","074_4_29","ACT","4","29","29","“So now, Lord, listen to what they are saying about punishing us! Help us who serve you (sg) to very boldly speak messages from you (sg) about Jesus ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_30","074_4_30","ACT","4","30","30"," Also, by your power MTY miraculously heal  sick people and do other amazing miracles SYN that show people your power! Ask Jesus, who always serves you,  to give us the authority MTY  to do such miracles!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_31","074_4_31","ACT","4","31","31","When the believers had finished praying, the place where they were meeting shook. All of them were ◄completely controlled/empowered► by the Holy Spirit {the Holy Spirit ◄completely controlled/empowered► all of them}, with the result that they began to speak boldly the words that God  told them to speak. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_32","074_4_32","ACT","4","32","32","The group of people who had believed  in Jesus were completely agreed about what they thought and what they wanted/desired. Not one of them claimed that he  alone owned anything. Instead, they shared with one another everything that they had. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_33","074_4_33","ACT","4","33","33","The apostles continued to tell others, very powerfully,  that God had ◄caused the Lord Jesus to become alive again/raised the Lord Jesus from the dead►.  People knew that God was graciously helping all the believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_34","074_4_34","ACT","4","34","34"," Some of the believers who owned land or houses would occasionally sell  some of their property. Then they would bring  the money for what they sold ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_35","074_4_35","ACT","4","35","35","and they would present it to the apostles MTY. Then  the apostles would give money to any believer who needed  it. So no one among the believers was lacking anything. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_36","074_4_36","ACT","4","36","36"," For example, there was Joseph.  He was a descendant of Levi  and he was born on Cyprus  Island. The apostles called him Barnabas;  in the Jewish language that name means a person who IDM always encourages  others. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC4_37","074_4_37","ACT","4","37","37","He sold one of his fields, and brought the money to the apostles  for them to distribute to other believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_1","074_5_1","ACT","5","1","1","But there was one of  the believers whose name was Ananias, and whose wife’s name was Sapphira. He  also sold some land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_2","074_5_2","ACT","5","2","2","He kept for himself some of the money  he had received for the land, and his wife knew that he had done that. Then he brought the rest of the money and presented it to the apostles MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_3","074_5_3","ACT","5","3","3","Then Peter said, “Ananias, you (sg) let Satan completely control you MTY so that you (sg) tried to deceive the Holy Spirit  and us(exc). ◄That was  terrible!/Why did you do such a terrible thing?► RHQ  You have kept for yourself some of the money you (sg) received for  selling the land,  pretending that you(sg) were giving us all of it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_4","074_5_4","ACT","5","4","4","Before you (sg) sold that land, you truly owned RHQ it. And after you sold it, you could RHQ certainly still have used the money any way you wanted  to. So why did you (sg) ever think RHQ about doing this  wicked thing? You were not  merely trying to deceive us! No,  you tried to deceive God  himself!!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_5","074_5_5","ACT","5","5","5","When Ananias heard that,  immediately he fell down dead. So all  who were there who heard  about Ananias’ death became terrified PRS. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_6","074_5_6","ACT","5","6","6","Some young men came in, wrapped his  body in a sheet, and carried it out  and buried it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_7","074_5_7","ACT","5","7","7","About three hours later, his wife came in,  but she did not know what had happened. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_8","074_5_8","ACT","5","8","8"," As Peter  showed her the money that Ananias had brought, he asked her, “Tell me, is this the amount  of money you two received for the land you sold?” She said, “Yes, that’s  what we(exc) received.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_9","074_5_9","ACT","5","9","9","So Peter said to her, “ You both did a terrible thing! You two agreed RHQ to try to determine if you could do that without the Spirit of the Lord  God revealing  to anyone that you two tried to deceive them! Listen!  Do you(sg) hear the footsteps SYN of the men who buried your husband? They are right outside this door, and they will carry your  corpse out  to bury it, too!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_10","074_5_10","ACT","5","10","10","Immediately Sapphira fell down dead at Peter’s feet. Then the young men came in. When they saw that she was dead, they carried her  body out and buried it beside her husband’s  body. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_11","074_5_11","ACT","5","11","11","So all the believers  in Jerusalem became greatly frightened PRS  because of what God had done to Ananias and Sapphira. And all  the others who heard  people tell about those things also  became greatly frightened. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_12","074_5_12","ACT","5","12","12"," God was enabling the apostles to do many amazing miracles among the people. All the believers were meeting together regularly  in the temple courtyard at  the place called Solomon’s Porch. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_13","074_5_13","ACT","5","13","13","All of the other people  who had not yet believed in Jesus were afraid to associate with the believers,  because they knew that if they did anything evil, God would punish them, as well as revealing it to the believers. However, those people continued to greatly respect the believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_14","074_5_14","ACT","5","14","14","Many more men and women started believing in the Lord  Jesus, and they joined the  group of believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_15","074_5_15","ACT","5","15","15"," The apostles were doing amazing miracles, so  people were bringing those who were sick into the streets, and laying them on stretchers and mats, in order that  when Peter came by  he would touch them, or at least his shadow might fall upon some of them  and heal them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_16","074_5_16","ACT","5","16","16","Crowds of people were also coming  to the apostles from the towns near Jerusalem. They were bringing their sick  relatives/friends and those who were being tormented/troubled by evil spirits {whom evil spirits were tormenting/troubling}, and  God healed all of them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_17","074_5_17","ACT","5","17","17","Then the high priest and all who were with him, who were members of the local Sadducee sect in Jerusalem, became very jealous  of the apostles, because many people were accepting the apostles’ message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_18","074_5_18","ACT","5","18","18","So they commanded the Temple guards to seize the apostles and put them in the public jail. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_19","074_5_19","ACT","5","19","19"," The guards did that, but during the night an angel from the Lord  God opened the jail doors and brought the apostles outside!  The guards were not aware of what the angel had done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_20","074_5_20","ACT","5","20","20","Then the angel said  to the apostles, “Go to the Temple  courtyard, stand there, and tell the people all about  how God can give them eternal life!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_21","074_5_21","ACT","5","21","21","So having heard this, about dawn they entered the Temple  courtyard and began to teach the people again  about Jesus. Acts 5:21b-24 Meanwhile, the high priest and those who were with him summoned the other Jewish Council members. Altogether they made up the entire Council of Israel.  After they all gathered together, they sent  guards to the jail to bring in the apostles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_22","074_5_22","ACT","5","22","22","But when the guards arrived at the jail, they discovered that the apostles were not there. So they returned to the Council, and  one of them reported, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_23","074_5_23","ACT","5","23","23","“We (exc) saw that the jail  doors were very securely locked, and the guards were standing at the doors. But when we opened  the doors and went in to get those men, none  of them was inside  the jail!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_24","074_5_24","ACT","5","24","24","When the captain of the temple guards and the chief priests heard that, they became greatly perplexed,  wondering what might result from all this. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_25","074_5_25","ACT","5","25","25","Then someone came  from the Temple courtyard and excitedly reported to them, “Listen  to this! Right now the men whom you put in jail are standing in the Temple  courtyard and they are teaching the people  about Jesus!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_26","074_5_26","ACT","5","26","26","So the captain  of the Temple guards went  to the Temple courtyard with the officers, and they brought the apostles  back to the Council room. But they did not treat them roughly, because they were afraid that the people would  kill them by throwing stones at them  if they hurt the apostles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_27","074_5_27","ACT","5","27","27","After  the captain and his officers had brought  the apostles to the Council room, they commanded them to stand in front of the Council members, and the high priest questioned them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_28","074_5_28","ACT","5","28","28","He said to them accusingly, “We (exc) strongly commanded you not to teach people about that man MTY  Jesus But  you have disobeyed us, and you have taught people all over Jerusalem  about him! Furthermore, you are trying to make it seem that we (exc) are the ones who are guilty MTY for that man’s death!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_29","074_5_29","ACT","5","29","29","But Peter,  speaking for himself and the other apostles, replied, “We (exc) have to obey  what God  commands us to do, not what  you people  tell us to do! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_30","074_5_30","ACT","5","30","30","God considers that you are the ones who killed Jesus by nailing him to a cross! But God, whom our ancestors  worshipped, ◄caused Jesus to become alive again after he died/raised Jesus from the dead►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_31","074_5_31","ACT","5","31","31","God has greatly honored Jesus.  He has taken him up to heaven! He has authorized him to be the one who will save us and to rule  over our lives! God did this so that he might enable  us Israelites MTY to turn away from  our sinful behavior and  that he might forgive  us for our sins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_32","074_5_32","ACT","5","32","32","We (exc) tell people about these things  that we know happened to Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, whom God has sent to  us who obey him, is also confirming  that these things are true.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_33","074_5_33","ACT","5","33","33","When the Council members heard those words, they became very angry  with the apostles, and they wanted to kill them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_34","074_5_34","ACT","5","34","34","But  there was a Council member named Gamaliel. He was a Pharisee, and one who taught people the  Jewish laws, and all the  Jewish people respected him. He stood up in the Council and told  guards to take the apostles out  of the room for a short time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_35","074_5_35","ACT","5","35","35"," After the guards had taken the apostles out, he said to the other Council members, “Fellow Israelites, you need to think carefully about what you are about to do to these men,  and I will tell you why. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_36","074_5_36","ACT","5","36","36","Some years ago  a man named Theudas rebelled  against the Roman government. He told people that he was an important person, and about 400 men joined  him. But he was killed { soldiers killed him} and all those who had been accompanying him were scattered.  So they were not able to do anything  that they had planned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_37","074_5_37","ACT","5","37","37","After that, during the time when they were ◄writing down names of the people/taking the census►  in order to tax people, a man named Judas from Galilee  province rebelled  against the Roman government. He persuaded some people to accompany him. But  soldiers killed him, too, and all those who had accompanied him went off in different directions. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_38","074_5_38","ACT","5","38","38","So now I say  this to you: Do not harm these men! Release them! I say this because if  this is just something that humans have planned, they will not be able to do it. They will fail,  like Theudas and Judas did ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_39","074_5_39","ACT","5","39","39","But, if God  has commanded them to do it, you will not be able to prevent them  from doing it, because you will find out that you are opposing God!” The other members of the Council accepted what Gamaliel said. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_40","074_5_40","ACT","5","40","40","They told the  temple guards to bring the apostles and flog them. So the guards brought them  into the Council room and flogged them. Then the Council members commanded them not to speak to people about MTY Jesus, and they released the apostles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_41","074_5_41","ACT","5","41","41","So the apostles left the Council. They were rejoicing, because  they knew God had honored them  by letting people disgrace them because they were followers MTY of Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC5_42","074_5_42","ACT","5","42","42","And every day  the apostles went to the temple  area and to various  people’s houses,  and they continued LIT teaching  people and telling  them that Jesus is the Messiah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_1","074_6_1","ACT","6","1","1","During that time, many more people were becoming believers.  Some of them were from other countries and spoke only the Greek language, but most of them had always lived in Israel and spoke the Hebrew language. Those who spoke Greek began to complain about those who spoke Hebrew. They were saying. “When  you Hebrew-speaking believers distribute  food or money to widows every day, you are not giving fair amounts to the widows who speak Greek!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_2","074_6_2","ACT","6","2","2","So,  after the  twelve apostles had heard what they were complaining about, they summoned all the  other  believers  in Jerusalem to meet  together. Then the apostles said  to those other believers, “We (exc) would not be doing right if we stopped  preaching and teaching  God’s message  about Jesus  in order to distribute food MTY  and money to the widows! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_3","074_6_3","ACT","6","3","3","So, fellow believers, carefully choose seven men from among you, men whom  you know that the Spirit  of God controls completely and who are very wise. Then we (exc) will appoint them to do this work, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_4","074_6_4","ACT","6","4","4","and we (exc) will devote our time to pray and to preach and teach the message  about Jesus.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_5","074_6_5","ACT","6","5","5","What the apostles recommended pleased all of the  other believers. So they group chose Stephen. He was a man who strongly believed  in God and whom the Holy Spirit controlled completely.  They also chose Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas who was from Antioch  city. Nicolas had accepted the Jewish religion  before he had believed in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_6","074_6_6","ACT","6","6","6","They brought these  seven men to the apostles. Then after the apostles prayed  for those men, they placed their hands on  the heads of each one of them  to appoint them to do that work. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_7","074_6_7","ACT","6","7","7","So  the believers continued to tell many people the message from God. ◄The number of people in Jerusalem who believed  in Jesus was increasing greatly./More and more people in Jerusalem were believing in Jesus.►  Among them were many  Jewish priests who were believing the message  about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_8","074_6_8","ACT","6","8","8","God was enabling Stephen to do many things by God’s power. He was doing many amazing miracles among the  Jewish people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_9","074_6_9","ACT","6","9","9","However, some people opposed Stephen. They were Jews from a group  that regularly met together in a Jewish meeting place that was { that people} called the Freedmen’s Meeting Place.  Those people were from Cyrene and Alexandria  cities and  also from Cilicia and Asia  provinces. They all began to argue with Stephen. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_10","074_6_10","ACT","6","10","10","But they were not able ◄to refute  what he said/to prove that what he said was wrong►,  because God’s Spirit enabled him to speak very wisely. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_11","074_6_11","ACT","6","11","11","Then that group secretly persuaded  some  men to  falsely accuse Stephen. saying, “We (exc) heard him say bad things about Moses and God.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_12","074_6_12","ACT","6","12","12","So,  by saying that, they made the  other Jewish people angry  at Stephen, including the elders and the teachers of the  Jewish laws. Then  they all seized Stephen and took him to the Jewish Council. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_13","074_6_13","ACT","6","13","13","They  also brought in some other men who accused Stephen falsely  about several things. They said, “This fellow continually says bad things about this holy Temple and about the laws  that Moses received from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_14","074_6_14","ACT","6","14","14","Specifically, we (exc) have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth  town will destroy this Temple and will tell us to obey different customs than Moses  taught our ancestors.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC6_15","074_6_15","ACT","6","15","15","When all  the people who were sitting in the Council  room heard that, and as they all stared at Stephen, they saw that his face was  shining SIM like the face of an angel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_1","074_7_1","ACT","7","1","1","Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are the things that  these people are saying about you(sg) true?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_2","074_7_2","ACT","7","2","2","Stephen replied, “Fellow Jews and respected leaders,  please listen to me! The glorious God  whom we(inc) worship appeared to our ancestor Abraham while he was still  living in Mesopotamia  region, before he moved to Haran  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_3","074_7_3","ACT","7","3","3","God said to him, ‘Leave this land where you (sg) and your relatives  are living, and go into the land to which I will lead you.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_4","074_7_4","ACT","7","4","4","So Abraham left that land,  which was also called Chaldea, and he arrived in Haran and lived there. After his father died, God told him to move to this land in which you  and I are now living.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_5","074_7_5","ACT","7","5","5","“ At that time God did not give Abraham any  land here, not even a small plot of  this land that would belong to him. God promised that he would  later give this land to him and his descendants, and that it would  always belong  to them. However, at that time Abraham did not have any children  who would ◄ inherit it/receive it after he died►.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_6","074_7_6","ACT","7","6","6","“ Later God told Abraham, ‘Your descendants will go and live in a foreign country. They  will live there for 400 years, and  during that time their leaders will mistreat your descendants and force them to work as slaves.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_7","074_7_7","ACT","7","7","7","But God  also said, ‘I will punish the people who make them work as slaves. Then, after that, your descendants will leave  that land and they will  come and worship me in this land.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_8","074_7_8","ACT","7","8","8","“Then God commanded Abraham that  every male in his household and all of his male descendants should be circumcised  to show that they all belonged to God and that they would obey what he had told Abraham to do. Later Abraham’s son, Isaac, was born, and when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him.  Later Isaac’s son, Jacob, was born, and Isaac  similarly circumcised him. And Jacob  similarly circumcised his twelve sons. They are the twelve men  from whom we(inc) Jews have all descended.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_9","074_7_9","ACT","7","9","9","“ You know that Jacob’s  older sons became jealous  because their father favored their younger brother Joseph. So they sold him  to merchants/traders who took him MTY to Egypt. There he became a slave  of an official who lived there. But God  helped Joseph. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_10","074_7_10","ACT","7","10","10","He protected him whenever people caused him to suffer. He enabled Joseph to be wise; and he caused Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to think well of Joseph. So Pharaoh appointed him to rule  over Egypt and to look after all of Pharaoh’s property MTY.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_11","074_7_11","ACT","7","11","11","“ While Joseph was doing that work, there was a time ◄when there was very little food/of famine► throughout Egypt and also throughout Canaan. People did not have enough food to eat. People were suffering.  At that time Jacob and his sons  in Canaan also could not find  enough food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_12","074_7_12","ACT","7","12","12","When Jacob heard  people report that there was grain/food  that people could buy in Egypt, he sent Joseph’s older brothers  to go there to buy grain. They went and bought grain from Joseph, but they did not recognize him. Then they returned home. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_13","074_7_13","ACT","7","13","13","When Joseph’s brothers went to Egypt the second time,  they again bought grain from Joseph. But this time  he told them who he was.  And people told Pharaoh that Joseph’s people were Hebrews  and that those men who had come from Canaan were his brothers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_14","074_7_14","ACT","7","14","14","Then after Joseph sent  his brothers back home, they told their father Jacob  that Joseph wanted him and his entire family to come  to Egypt. At that time ◄ Jacob’s family consisted of 75 people/there were 75 people in Jacob’s family► SYN. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_15","074_7_15","ACT","7","15","15"," So when Jacob  heard that, he and all his family went to  live in Egypt.” Acts 7:15b-16 “ Later on, Jacob died  there, and our  other ancestors,  his sons, also died there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_16","074_7_16","ACT","7","16","16"," But the bodies  of Jacob and Joseph were brought { they brought the bodies  of Jacob and Joseph}  back to our land, and  Jacob’s body was buried {they buried  Jacob’s body}  in the tomb that Abraham had bought, and they buried Joseph’s body in Shechem in the ground that  Jacob had bought from Hamor’s sons.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_17","074_7_17","ACT","7","17","17","“Our ancestors had become very numerous when it was almost time for  God to rescue them from Egypt,  as he had promised Abraham that he would do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_18","074_7_18","ACT","7","18","18","Another king had begun to rule in Egypt. He did not know that Joseph,  long before that time, had greatly helped the people of Egypt MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_19","074_7_19","ACT","7","19","19","That king cruelly tried to get rid of our ancestors. He oppressed them and caused them to suffer greatly. He  even commanded them to leave their baby  boys outside  their homes so that they would die.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_20","074_7_20","ACT","7","20","20","“During that time Moses was born, and he was a very beautiful LIT  child. So his parents  secretly cared for him in their house for three months. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_21","074_7_21","ACT","7","21","21","Then they had to put him outside  the house, but Pharaoh’s daughter  found him and adopted him and cared for him as  though he were her own son. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_22","074_7_22","ACT","7","22","22","Moses was taught { The Egyptian teachers taught Moses} many kinds of wise things HYP that the people in Egypt knew, and  when he grew up, he spoke powerfully and did things powerfully.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_23","074_7_23","ACT","7","23","23","“ One day when Moses was about 40 years old, he decided that he would  go and see his fellow Israelis.  So he went to the place where they worked. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_24","074_7_24","ACT","7","24","24","He saw an Egyptian beating one of the Israels. So he went over to help MTY the Israeli man who was being hurt/beat {whom  the Egyptian was hurting/beating}, and he ◄got revenge on/paid back► the Israeli man by killing the Egyptian  who was hurting/beating him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_25","074_7_25","ACT","7","25","25","Moses was thinking that his fellow Israelis would understand that God had sent him to free them  from being slaves. But they did not understand that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_26","074_7_26","ACT","7","26","26","The next day, Moses saw two Israeli men fighting  each other. He tried to make them stop fighting by saying to them, ‘Men, you two are fellow Israelis! So ◄stop hurting each other!/why are you hurting each other?► RHQ’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_27","074_7_27","ACT","7","27","27","But the man who was injuring the other man pushed Moses away and said to him, ‘◄No one appointed you (sg) to rule and judge us (exc)!/Do you (sg) think someone appointed you (sg) to rule and judge us (exc)?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_28","074_7_28","ACT","7","28","28","Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_29","074_7_29","ACT","7","29","29","When Moses heard that,  he thought to himself, ‘Obviously, people know what I have done, and someone will kill me.’ He was afraid, so he fled  from Egypt to Midian land. He lived there  for some years. He  got married, and he and his wife had two sons.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_30","074_7_30","ACT","7","30","30","“ One day 40 years later,  the Lord God appeared as an angel to Moses. He appeared in a bush that was burning in the desert near Sinai Mountain. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_31","074_7_31","ACT","7","31","31","When Moses saw that, he was greatly surprised,  because the bush was not burning up. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the Lord  God say  to him, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_32","074_7_32","ACT","7","32","32","‘I  am the God  whom your ancestors  worshipped. I  am the God that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob  worship.’ Moses  was so afraid that he began to shake. He was afraid to look  at the bush any longer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_33","074_7_33","ACT","7","33","33","Then the Lord  God said to him, ‘Take your sandals off  to show that you(sg) revere me. Because I  am here, the place where you are standing is holy/sacred. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_34","074_7_34","ACT","7","34","34","I have surely seen how the people of Egypt are continually causing my people to suffer. I have heard my people when they groan  because those people continually oppress them. So I have come down to rescue them  from Egypt. Now get ready, because I am going to send you  back to Egypt  to do that.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_35","074_7_35","ACT","7","35","35","“This Moses  is the one who had tried to help our Israeli people, but whom they rejected  by saying, ‘No one RHQ appointed you to rule and judge  us!’ Moses  is the one whom God  himself sent to rule them and to free them  from being slaves. He is the one whom an angel in the bush  commanded to do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_36","074_7_36","ACT","7","36","36","Moses  is the one who led our ancestors out  from Egypt. He did many kinds of miracles in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and during the 40 years  that the Israelite people lived in the desert. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_37","074_7_37","ACT","7","37","37","This Moses is the one who said to the Israelite people, ‘God will appoint a prophet for you from among your own people.  He will speak words from God, just like I  speak his words to you.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_38","074_7_38","ACT","7","38","38","This man  Moses was  our people’s leader when they gathered together in the desert. It is Moses to whom  God sent the angel on Sinai Mountain to  give him our laws, and  he was the one who told our  other ancestors  what the angel had said. He was the one who received  from God words that tell us how to live  eternally, and Moses passed  them on to us.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_39","074_7_39","ACT","7","39","39","“ However, our ancestors did not want to obey  Moses. Instead,  while he was still on the mountain, they rejected him  as their leader and decided that they wanted to return to Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_40","074_7_40","ACT","7","40","40","So they told  his older brother Aaron, ‘Make idols for us who will be our gods to lead us  back to Egypt! As for that fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt we (exc) do not know what has happened to him!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_41","074_7_41","ACT","7","41","41","So, they made  out of gold an image  that looked like a calf. Then they sacrificed  animals and offered other things to  honor that idol, and they sang and danced to honor the idol that they themselves had made. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_42","074_7_42","ACT","7","42","42","So God rejected them. He abandoned them to worship the sun, moon and stars in the sky. This agrees with the words that one of the prophets wrote that God said, You Israelite  people MTY, when you  repeatedly killed animals and offered them as sacrifices during those 40 years  that you were in the desert, ◄you  most certainly were not offering them to me!/what makes you think that you were offering them to me?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_43","074_7_43","ACT","7","43","43"," On the contrary, you carried  with you from place to place the tent  that contained the idol representing  the god Molech  that you worshipped. You also  carried with you the image of the star  called Rephan.  Those were idols that you had made,  and you worshipped  them instead of me. So I will  cause you to be taken away { people to take you}  from your own country. You will be taken { They will take you}  far from your homes to regions even farther than Babylon  Country.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_44","074_7_44","ACT","7","44","44","“While our ancestors were in the desert, they worshipped God at the tent that showed  that he was there with them. They had made the tent exactly like God had commanded Moses  to make it. It was exactly like the model that Moses had seen  when he was up on the mountain. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_45","074_7_45","ACT","7","45","45"," Later on, other ancestors of ours carried that tent with them when Joshua led them  into this land. That was during the time that they took this land for themselves, when God forced the people  who previously lived here to leave. So the Israelis were able to possess this land.  The tent remained in this land and was still here when  King David ruled. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_46","074_7_46","ACT","7","46","46","David pleased God, and he asked God to let him build a house where  he and all of our Israeli people could worship God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_47","074_7_47","ACT","7","47","47","But  instead, God let David’s son Solomon build a house  where people could worship God.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_48","074_7_48","ACT","7","48","48","“However,  we(inc) know that God is greater than everything, and he does not live in  houses that people SYN have made. It is like the prophet  Isaiah wrote. He wrote  these words that God had spoken: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_49","074_7_49","ACT","7","49","50","Heaven is ◄my throne/the place from which I rule the entire universe►, and the earth is ◄my footstool/ merely like a stool on which I may rest my feet►. I myself SYN have made everything  both in heaven and on the earth. So you  human beings, ◄ you really cannot build a house that would be adequate for me!/do you think you can build a house that would be  appropriate for me?► RHQ You cannot RHQ make a place good enough for me  to live in!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_51","074_7_51","ACT","7","51","51","“You people are extremely stubborn MET, not wanting to obey God or listen MTY  to him! You are exactly like your ancestors! You always resist the Holy Spirit  as they did! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_52","074_7_52","ACT","7","52","52","Your ancestors caused RHQ every prophet to suffer,  including Moses. They even killed those who long ago announced  that the Messiah would come, the one who always did what pleased God.  And the Messiah has come! He is the one whom you  recently turned over  to his enemies and  insisted that they kill him! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_53","074_7_53","ACT","7","53","53","You  are the people who have received God’s laws.  Those were laws that God caused angels to give  to our ancestors. However, incredibly, you have not obeyed them!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_54","074_7_54","ACT","7","54","54","When the Jewish Council members  and others there heard all that Stephen said, they became very angry. They were grinding their teeth  together because they were so angry at him! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_55","074_7_55","ACT","7","55","55","But the Holy Spirit completely controlled Stephen. He looked up into heaven and saw a dazzling light from God, and  he saw Jesus standing at God’s right side. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_56","074_7_56","ACT","7","56","56","“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open, and I  see the one who came from heaven standing at God’s right side!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_57","074_7_57","ACT","7","57","57"," When the Jewish Council members and others heard that, they shouted loudly. They put their hands over their ears  so that they could not hear Stephen, and immediately they all rushed at him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_58","074_7_58","ACT","7","58","58","They dragged him outside the city  of Jerusalem and started to throw stones at him. The people who were accusing him  took off their outer garments  in order to throw stones more easily, and they put their clothes  on the ground next to a young man whose name was Saul,  so that he could guard them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_59","074_7_59","ACT","7","59","59","While they continued to throw stones at Stephen, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC7_60","074_7_60","ACT","7","60","60","Then Stephen fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not punish them (OR, forgive them) LIT for this sin!” After he had said that, he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_1","074_8_1","ACT","8","1","2","Then some men who revered God buried Stephen’s body in a tomb, and they mourned greatly and loudly for him. On that same day  people started severely persecuting the believers  who were living in Jerusalem. So most  of the believers fled  to other places throughout Judea and Samaria  provinces. The apostles were the only believers who remained in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_3","074_8_3","ACT","8","3","3","While the people were killing Stephen, Saul was there approving of their killing Stephen. So Saul  also began trying to destroy the group of believers. He entered houses one by one, he dragged away men and women  who believed in Jesus, and then he  arranged for them to be put in prison. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_4","074_8_4","ACT","8","4","4","The believers who had left Jerusalem went to different places, where they continued preaching the message about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_5","074_8_5","ACT","8","5","5"," One of those believers whose name was Philip went down  from Jerusalem to a city in Samaria  province. There he was telling  the people that Jesus is MTY the Messiah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_6","074_8_6","ACT","8","6","6","Many people there heard Philip  speak and saw the miraculous things that he was doing. So they all ◄paid close attention to/listened carefully to► his words. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_7","074_8_7","ACT","8","7","7","For  example, when Philip commanded evil spirits who controlled many people  that they should come out of them, they came out, while those spirits screamed. Also, many people who were paralyzed and  many others who were lame were healed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_8","074_8_8","ACT","8","8","8","So  many people MTY in that city greatly rejoiced. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_9","074_8_9","ACT","8","9","9","There was a man in that city whose name was Simon. He had been practicing sorcery for a long time, and he had been amazing the people in Samaria  province by doing that. He continually claimed that he was a great/important person. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_10","074_8_10","ACT","8","10","10","All the people there, both ordinary and important people, listened to him.  Various ones of them were saying, “This man works in extremely powerful ways  because God has caused him to be a great  person.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_11","074_8_11","ACT","8","11","11","They continued to listen to him carefully, because for a long time he had astonished them by practicing sorcery. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_12","074_8_12","ACT","8","12","12","But then they believed Philip’s  message when he preached to them about  how God desires to rule MET  the lives of people who believe in him, and about Jesus being the Messiah MTY. Both the men and the women who believed in Jesus were baptized. { Philip was baptizing both the men and the women  who had come to believe in Jesus}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_13","074_8_13","ACT","8","13","13","Simon himself believed  Philip’s message and, after he was baptized {after  Philip baptized him}, he began to constantly accompany Philip. Simon was continually amazed because he often saw  Philip doing many kinds of miraculous things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_14","074_8_14","ACT","8","14","14","When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that  many people PRS  throughout Samaria  district had believed the message from God  about Jesus, they sent Peter and John there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_15","074_8_15","ACT","8","15","15","When Peter and John arrived in Samaria, they prayed for those  new believers in order that the Holy Spirit’s  power would come to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_16","074_8_16","ACT","8","16","16","Peter and John realized that the Holy Spirit had not yet begun to empower any of them. They had been baptized {Philip had baptized them}  because they had believed in MTY the Lord Jesus,  but they did not know about the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_17","074_8_17","ACT","8","17","17"," Then Peter and John placed their hands on  the heads of each person, and they received the  power of MTY the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_18","074_8_18","ACT","8","18","18","Simon saw  things that convinced him that  God had given the Spirit’s  power to people as a result of the apostles placing their hands on them. So he offered  to give money to the apostles, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_19","074_8_19","ACT","8","19","19","saying, “Enable me also to do what  you are doing, so that everyone on whom I place/put my hands may receive the Holy Spirit’s  power.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_20","074_8_20","ACT","8","20","20","But Peter said to him, “May you (sg) and your money go to hell, because you mistakenly think that you can buy  from us what God  alone gives to  people ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_21","074_8_21","ACT","8","21","21"," God has not authorized you to have any part of this ministry of giving  the Holy Spirit’s power, because he knows that you are not thinking rightly! (OR, because he knows that you are thinking completely wrongly.) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_22","074_8_22","ACT","8","22","22","So stop thinking wickedly  like that, and plead that the Lord, if he is willing, will forgive you  for what you  wickedly thought/planned  to do ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_23","074_8_23","ACT","8","23","23"," Turn away from your evil ways, because I perceive that you (sg) are extremely envious of  us, and you  are a slave of your  continual desire to do evil! God will certainly punish you severely!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_24","074_8_24","ACT","8","24","24","Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord  God that  he will not do to me what you just said!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_25","074_8_25","ACT","8","25","25","After  Peter and John told  people there what they knew personally  about the Lord  Jesus and declared to them the message about Jesus, they both returned to Jerusalem.  Along the way they preached the good message  about Jesus to people in many villages in Samaria  province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_26","074_8_26","ACT","8","26","26"," One day an angel whom the Lord  God had sent commanded Philip, “Get ready and go south along the road that extends from Jerusalem to Gaza.”  That was a road in a desert area. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_27","074_8_27","ACT","8","27","27","So Philip got ready and went  along that road. Suddenly he met a man from Ethiopia. He was an important official who took care of all the funds for the queen  of Ethiopia.  In his language people called their queen Candace. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship  God, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_28","074_8_28","ACT","8","28","28","and he was returning  home and was seated  riding in his chariot.  As he was riding, he was reading  out loud from what the prophet Isaiah  had written MTY  long ago. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_29","074_8_29","ACT","8","29","29"," God’s Spirit told Philip, “Go near to that chariot and keep walking close to  the man who is riding in it!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_30","074_8_30","ACT","8","30","30","So Philip ran  to the chariot and kept running close to it. Then he heard the official reading what the prophet Isaiah  had written. He asked the man, “Do you (sg) understand what you are reading?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_31","074_8_31","ACT","8","31","31","He answered Philip, “ No! ◄I cannot possibly  understand it if  there is no one to explain it to me!/How can I  understand it if  there is no one to explain it to me?► RHQ” Acts 8:31b-35 Then the man said to Philip, “Please come up  and sit beside me.”  So Philip did that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_32","074_8_32","ACT","8","32","32","The part of the Scriptures that the official was reading was this: He will  be silent when they lead him away to kill him  like when  a sheep  is led away to be killed. As a young sheep is silent when its wool is being cut off {someone cuts off its wool},  similarly he will not protest MTY  when people cause him to suffer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_33","074_8_33","ACT","8","33","33","When he will be humiliated by being accused falsely {people will humiliate him  by accusing him falsely},  the rulers ◄will not consider him innocent/will consider him guilty►. No one will possibly be able to tell about his descendants, because he will be killed {people will kill him} without him having  any descendants on the earth. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_34","074_8_34","ACT","8","34","34","The official asked Philip  about these words that he was reading, “Tell me, who was the prophet writing about?  Was he writing about himself or about someone else?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_35","074_8_35","ACT","8","35","35","So Philip began  to explain that Scripture passage. He told him the good message about MTY Jesus.  So the official understood and believed in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_36","074_8_36","ACT","8","36","37","While they were traveling along the road, they came to  a place where there was a pond of water  near the road. Then the official said  to Philip, “Look,  there is a pond of water! ◄I would like you to baptize me, because I do not know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized {prevent  you from baptizing me.}/Do you know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized {prevent  you from baptizing me}?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_38","074_8_38","ACT","8","38","38","So the official told  the driver to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the official went down into the pond of water, and  Philip baptized him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_39","074_8_39","ACT","8","39","39","When they came up out of the water, suddenly God’s Spirit took Philip away. The official never saw Philip again. But  although he never saw Philip again, the official continued going along the road, very happy  that God had saved him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC8_40","074_8_40","ACT","8","40","40","Philip then realized  that the Spirit had miraculously taken him to Azotus  town. While he traveled around  in that region, he continued proclaiming the message  about Jesus in all the towns  between Azotus and Caesarea. And he was still proclaiming it when he finally arrived in Caesarea  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_1","074_9_1","ACT","9","1","1","Meanwhile, Saul angrily continued to say, “I will kill those who believe that  Jesus is the Lord!” He went to the supreme priest  in Jerusalem ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_2","074_9_2","ACT","9","2","2","and requested him  to write letters introducing him to  the leaders of MTY the Jewish meeting places in Damascus  city. The letters asked them to authorize Saul to seize any men or women who followed the way  that Jesus had taught, and to take them as prisoners to Jerusalem  so that the Jewish leaders could judge and punish them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_3","074_9_3","ACT","9","3","3","Saul took those letters, and while he  and those with him traveled toward Damascus, as they were approaching the city, suddenly a brilliant light from heaven shone around Saul. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_4","074_9_4","ACT","9","4","4"," Immediately he fell down to the ground. Then he heard the voice  of the Lord say to him, “Saul, Saul, ◄stop causing me to suffer!/why are you causing me to suffer?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_5","074_9_5","ACT","9","5","5","Saul asked him, “Lord, who are you?” He replied, “I am Jesus,  and you (sg) are causing me to suffer  by hurting my followers! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_6","074_9_6","ACT","9","6","6","Now instead  of continuing to do that, stand up and go into the city!  Someone there will tell you (sg) what I  want you to do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_7","074_9_7","ACT","9","7","7","The men who were traveling with Saul  became so frightened that they could not say anything.  They just stood there. They only heard the sound  when the Lord spoke, but they did not see anyone. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_8","074_9_8","ACT","9","8","8","Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could not see anything. So the men  with him took him by the hand and led him into Damascus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_9","074_9_9","ACT","9","9","9","For the next three days Saul could not see  anything, and he did not eat or drink anything. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_10","074_9_10","ACT","9","10","10","In Damascus there was  a Jew named Ananias who believed in Jesus. While Ananias was seeing a vision, the Lord  Jesus said to him, “Ananias!” He replied, “Lord, I  am listening.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_11","074_9_11","ACT","9","11","11","The Lord Jesus told him, “Go to Straight Street to the house that belongs to Judas. Ask  someone there if you(sg) can talk to a man named Saul from Tarsus  city, because, surprisingly, at this moment he is praying  to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_12","074_9_12","ACT","9","12","12"," Saul has seen a vision in which a man named Ananias entered  the house where he was staying and put his hands on him in order that he might see again.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_13","074_9_13","ACT","9","13","13","But Ananias  protested, saying, “But Lord, many people have told me about this man! He has done many evil things to the people in Jerusalem who  believe in you! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_14","074_9_14","ACT","9","14","14","And the chief priests have authorized him to come here  to Damascus in order to seize all of us who believe in you (sg) MTY  and take us to Jerusalem!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_15","074_9_15","ACT","9","15","15","But the Lord  Jesus told Ananias, “Go to  Saul! Do what I say, because I have chosen him to serve me in order that he might speak about me MTY both to non-Jewish people and  their kings and to the Israeli people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_16","074_9_16","ACT","9","16","16","I myself will tell him that he must often suffer greatly because of  telling people about me MTY.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_17","074_9_17","ACT","9","17","17","So Ananias went, and  after he found the house  where Saul was, he entered it. Then,  as soon as he met Saul, he put his hands on him, and he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus  himself commanded me to come  to you. He is the  same one who appeared to you (sg) while you were traveling along the road.  He sent me to you in order that you might see again and that you might be completely controlled by the Holy Spirit {that the Holy Spirit might completely control you}.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_18","074_9_18","ACT","9","18","18","Instantly, things like  fish scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he was able to see again. Then he stood up and was baptized {Ananias baptized him}  immediately. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_19","074_9_19","ACT","9","19","19","After Saul ate some food, he felt strong again. Saul stayed with the  other believers in Damascus for several days. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_20","074_9_20","ACT","9","20","20","Right away Saul began to preach  to people about Jesus in the Jewish meeting places  in Damascus. He told them that Jesus is ◄the Son of/the man who is also► God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_21","074_9_21","ACT","9","21","21","And all the people who heard him  preach were amazed.  Various ones of them were saying, “◄ We(inc) can hardly believe that this is the  same man who persecuted the believers in Jerusalem!/Is this really the  same man who persecuted the believers in Jerusalem?► RHQ, MTY And we (inc) know that he has RHQ come here to seize us and take us to the chief priests  in Jerusalem!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_22","074_9_22","ACT","9","22","22","But  God enabled Saul  to preach to many people even more convincingly. He was proving  from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah. So the Jewish leaders in Damascus could not think of anything ◄to refute  what he said/to prove that what he said was not true►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_23","074_9_23","ACT","9","23","23","Some time later,  after Saul had left Damascus and then returned, the Jewish  leaders SYN  there plotted to kill him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_24","074_9_24","ACT","9","24","24"," During each day and night those Jews were continually watching  the people passing through the city gates, in order that  when they saw Saul they might kill him. However, someone told Saul what they planned to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_25","074_9_25","ACT","9","25","25","So some of those whom he had helped  to believe in Jesus took him  one night  to the high stone wall that surrounded the city. They  used ropes to lower him in a  large basket through an opening in the wall.  So he escaped from Damascus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_26","074_9_26","ACT","9","26","26","When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he began trying to associate with other believers. However,  almost all of them continued to be afraid of him, because they did not believe that he had become a believer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_27","074_9_27","ACT","9","27","27","But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He explained to the apostles how,  while Saul was traveling along the road  to Damascus, he had seen the Lord  Jesus and how the Lord had spoken to him  there. He also told them how Saul had preached boldly about Jesus MTY  to people in Damascus.  The apostles believed Barnabas and told the other believers about that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_28","074_9_28","ACT","9","28","28","So Saul began to associate with the apostles  and other believers throughout Jerusalem, and he spoke boldly  to people about MTY the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_29","074_9_29","ACT","9","29","29","Saul was  also speaking  about Jesus with Jews who spoke Greek, and he was debating with them. But they were continually trying  to think ◄ of a way to kill him/of  how they could kill him►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_30","074_9_30","ACT","9","30","30","When the  other believers heard that  those Jews were planning to kill him, some of the believers took Saul down to Caesarea  city. There they arranged for him to go  by ship to Tarsus,  his hometown. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_31","074_9_31","ACT","9","31","31","So the groups of believers throughout  the entire regions of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria lived peacefully  because no one was persecuting them anymore. The Holy Spirit was strengthening them  spiritually and encouraging them. They were continuing to revere/honor the Lord  Jesus, and the Holy Spirit was enabling many other people  to become believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_32","074_9_32","ACT","9","32","32","While Peter was traveling throughout those  regions, once he went to  the coastal plain to visit the believers  who lived in Lydda  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_33","074_9_33","ACT","9","33","33","There he met a man whose name was Aeneas. Aeneas had not been able to get up from  his bed for eight years, because he was paralyzed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_34","074_9_34","ACT","9","34","34","Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you (sg) right now! Get up and roll up your mat!” Right away Aeneas stood up. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_35","074_9_35","ACT","9","35","35","Most of the people who lived in Lydda and on Sharon  Plain saw Aeneas  after the Lord had healed him, so they believed in the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_36","074_9_36","ACT","9","36","36","In Joppa  town there was a believer whose name was Tabitha.  Her name in the Greek language was Dorcas.  Both of these names mean gazelle/deer/antelope. That woman was continually doing good deeds  for others. Specifically, she was helping poor people  by giving them things that they needed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_37","074_9_37","ACT","9","37","37","During the time  that Peter was in Lydda, she became sick and died.  Some women there washed her body  according to the Jewish custom so that the people could bury it. Then they  covered her body with cloth and placed it in an upstairs room  in her house. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_38","074_9_38","ACT","9","38","38","Lydda was near Joppa, so when the believers heard that Peter was  still in Lydda, they sent two men to  go to Peter.  When they arrived where Peter was, they repeatedly urged/begged him, “Please come immediately with us  to Joppa!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_39","074_9_39","ACT","9","39","39","So  right away Peter got ready and went with them. When they arrived  at the house in Joppa, the two men took Peter to the upstairs room  where Dorcas’ body was lying. All the widows  therecrowded around Peter. They were crying and showing him the cloaks and  other garments that Dorcas had made for people while she was still alive. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_40","074_9_40","ACT","9","40","40","But Peter sent them all out of the room. Then he got down on his knees and prayed. Then, turning toward Tabitha’s body, he said, “Tabitha, stand up!”  Immediately she opened her eyes and, when she saw Peter, she sat up. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_41","074_9_41","ACT","9","41","41","He grasped one of her hands and helped her to stand up. After he had summoned the believers and  especially the widows  among them to come back in, he showed them that Tabitha was alive  again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_42","074_9_42","ACT","9","42","42"," Soon people everywhere in Joppa knew about that miracle, and as a result many people believed in the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC9_43","074_9_43","ACT","9","43","43","Peter stayed in Joppa many days with a man named Simon who made leather  from animal skins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_1","074_10_1","ACT","10","1","1"," There was a man  who lived in Caesarea  city whose name was Cornelius. He was an officer who commanded 100 men in a large group of Roman soldiers from Italy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_2","074_10_2","ACT","10","2","2","He always tried to do what would please God; he and his entire household MTY  were non-Jews who habitually worshipped God. He sometimes gave money to help poor  Jewish people, and he prayed to God regularly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_3","074_10_3","ACT","10","3","3"," One day at about three o’clock in the afternoon  Cornelius saw a vision. He clearly saw an angel whom God  had sent. The angel came into  his room and said to him, “Cornelius!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_4","074_10_4","ACT","10","4","4","Cornelius stared at the angel and became terrified. Then he asked  fearfully, “Sir, what do you (sg) want?” The angel answered him, “You (sg) have pleased God because you have been praying  regularly to him and you often give money to  help poor people.  Those things have been like a sacrifice  to God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_5","074_10_5","ACT","10","5","5","So, now command some men to go to Joppa and  tell them to bring back a man named Simon whose other name is Peter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_6","074_10_6","ACT","10","6","6","He is staying with a man,  also named Simon, who makes leather. His house is near the ocean.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_7","074_10_7","ACT","10","7","7","When the angel who spoke to Cornelius had gone, Cornelius summoned two of his household servants and a soldier who served him, one who also worshipped God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_8","074_10_8","ACT","10","8","8","He explained to them everything  that the angel had said. Then he told them to go to Joppa  to ask Peter to come to Caesarea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_9","074_10_9","ACT","10","9","9","About noon the next day those  three men were traveling  along the road and were coming near  Joppa. As they were approaching Joppa, Peter went up on the  flat housetop to pray. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_10","074_10_10","ACT","10","10","10","He became hungry and wanted something to eat. While someone was preparing the food,  Peter saw  this vision: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_11","074_10_11","ACT","10","11","11","◄He saw heaven open/He saw an opening in the sky► and something like a large sheet was being lowered  to the ground.  It was tied at its four corners  with ropes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_12","074_10_12","ACT","10","12","12","Inside the sheet were all kinds of creatures.  These included animals and birds that the Mosaic laws forbade Jews to eat. Some had four feet, others scurried across the ground, and others were wild birds. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_13","074_10_13","ACT","10","13","13","Then  he heard God SYN say to him, “Peter, stand up, kill  and cook some of these and eat  their meat!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_14","074_10_14","ACT","10","14","14","But Peter replied, “Lord, surely you (sg) do not  really want me to do that! I have never eaten any  meat that  our Jewish law says is unacceptable to God or  something that we(exc) must not eat!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_15","074_10_15","ACT","10","15","15"," Then Peter heard MTY God talk to him a second time. He said, “ I am God,  so if I have made something acceptable  to eat, do not say that it is not acceptable  to eat!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_16","074_10_16","ACT","10","16","16"," This happened three  times, so Peter knew that he had to think carefully about what it might mean. Immediately  after God had said that the third time, ◄ the sheet  with the animals and birds was the pulled back into heaven/ someone pulled the sheet  with the animals and birds up into the sky again►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_17","074_10_17","ACT","10","17","17","While Peter was trying to understand what that vision meant, the men who had been sent by Cornelius {whom Cornelius had sent}  arrived in Joppa. They asked people how to get to Simon’s house.  So they found his house and were standing outside the gate. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_18","074_10_18","ACT","10","18","18","They called and were asking if a man named Simon, whose other name was Peter, was staying there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_19","074_10_19","ACT","10","19","19","While Peter was still trying to understand  what the vision  meant,  God’s Spirit said to him, “Three men  are here who want to see you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_20","074_10_20","ACT","10","20","20","So get up and go downstairs and go with them! Do not think that you (sg) should not go with them  because of their being non-Jews, because I have sent them  here!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_21","074_10_21","ACT","10","21","21","So Peter went down to the men and said to them, “Greetings! I am  the man you are looking for. Why have you come?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_22","074_10_22","ACT","10","22","22","One of them replied, “Cornelius, who is a Roman army officer,  sent us here. He is a righteous man who worships God, and all of the Jewish people HYP  who know about him say that he is a very good man. An angel ◄who was sent from God/whom God sent► said to him, ‘Tell some men to  go to Joppa to see Simon Peter and bring him here, so that you (sg) can hear what he has to say.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_23","074_10_23","ACT","10","23","23","So Peter  said that he would go with them, and then he invited them into  the house and told them that they could stay  there that night. Acts 10:23b-26 The next day Peter got ready and went with the men. Several of the believers from Joppa went with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_24","074_10_24","ACT","10","24","24","The day after that, they arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them. He had also invited his relatives and close friends  to come to his house, so they were there, too. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_25","074_10_25","ACT","10","25","25","When Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and bowed low in front of him to worship him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_26","074_10_26","ACT","10","26","26","But Peter  grasped Cornelius by the hand and lifted him to his feet. He said, “Stand up!  Do not revere/worship me I myself am only human,  like you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_27","074_10_27","ACT","10","27","27","While he was talking to Cornelius, Peter  and the others entered  a large room inside the house. Peter saw that many people had gathered together  there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_28","074_10_28","ACT","10","28","28","Then Peter said to them, “You all know that any  of us Jews think we are disobeying  our Jewish laws if we (exc) associate with a non-Jewish person or  if we even visit him. However, God has shown me  in a vision that I should not say about anyone that God will not accept him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_29","074_10_29","ACT","10","29","29","So when you sent  some men to ask me to come  here, I came  right away. I did not say that I could not go  with non-Jewish people. So, please tell me, why have you asked me to come  here?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_30","074_10_30","ACT","10","30","30","Cornelius replied, “About this time four days ago I was praying  to God in my house,  as I regularly do at three o’clock in the afternoon. Suddenly a man whose clothes  shone brightly stood in front of me, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_31","074_10_31","ACT","10","31","31","and said, ‘Cornelius, when you (sg) have prayed, you have been heard by God {God has heard  when you (sg) have prayed  to him}. He has also noticed that you have  often given money to  help poor people,  and he is pleased with that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_32","074_10_32","ACT","10","32","32","So now, send  messengers to go to Joppa,  in order to ask Simon whose other name is Peter to come  here. He is staying near the ocean in a house that belongs to  another man named Simon, who makes leather.  When Simon Peter comes, he will tell you a message from God.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_33","074_10_33","ACT","10","33","33","So I immediately sent  some men who asked you (sg) to come here, and I  certainly thank you for coming. Now we (exc) all are gathered  here, knowing that God is with us, in order to hear all the things that the Lord  God has commanded you  to say. So please speak to us.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_34","074_10_34","ACT","10","34","34","So Peter began to speak MTY to them. He said, “ Now I understand that it is true that God does not favor only certain groups  of people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_35","074_10_35","ACT","10","35","35","Instead, from every group of people he accepts  everyone who honors him and who does what pleases him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_36","074_10_36","ACT","10","36","36"," You know the message that God sent to  us Israelis.  He proclaimed  to us the good news that he would cause  people to have peace  with him because of what Jesus Christ  has done. This  Jesus is Lord not only over us Israelis. He is  also the Lord  who rules over all  people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_37","074_10_37","ACT","10","37","37","You know what  he did throughout the land of Judea, beginning in Galilee. He began  to do those things after John had been proclaiming  to people that they should turn away from their sinful behavior before he baptized them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_38","074_10_38","ACT","10","38","38","You know that God gave MTY his Holy Spirit to Jesus,  the Man from Nazareth  town, and gave him the power  to do miracles. You also know how Jesus went to many places, always doing good deeds and healing  people. Specifically, he was continually healing all the people whom the devil was causing to suffer.  Jesus was able to do those things because God was always helping him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_39","074_10_39","ACT","10","39","39","“We apostles tell people about all the things that  we saw Jesus do in Jerusalem and in the  rest of Israel.  The leaders in Jerusalem had him killed by being nailed to a cross. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_40","074_10_40","ACT","10","40","40","However, God caused him to become alive again on the third day  after he had died. God  also enabled  some of us(exc) to see him  so that we would know that he was alive again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_41","074_10_41","ACT","10","41","41","God  did not  let all the  Jewish people see him. Instead, he had chosen us apostles beforehand to see  Jesus after he became alive again, and to tell others  about him. We apostles are the people who ate meals with him ◄after he had become alive  again/after he had risen from the dead►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_42","074_10_42","ACT","10","42","42","God commanded us to preach to the people and tell them that Jesus is the one whom he has appointed to judge  everyone some day. He will judge all  those who will  still  be living and all those who will have died  by that time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_43","074_10_43","ACT","10","43","43","All of the prophets  who wrote about the Messiah long ago told  people about him.  They wrote that if people believe in the Messiah MTY, God would forgive  them for their sins, because of what  the Messiah would do for them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_44","074_10_44","ACT","10","44","44","While Peter was still speaking those words, suddenly the Holy Spirit ◄came down on/began to control► all  those non-Jewish people who were listening to the message. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_45","074_10_45","ACT","10","45","45","The Jewish believers who had come with Peter  from Joppa were amazed that  God had generously given the Holy Spirit to the non-Jewish people, too. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_46","074_10_46","ACT","10","46","46"," The Jewish believers knew that God had done that because they were hearing those people speaking languages MTY  that they had not learned and telling how great God is. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_47","074_10_47","ACT","10","47","47","Then Peter said  to the other Jewish believers who were there, “ God has given them the Holy Spirit just like  he gave him to us  Jewish believers, so ◄surely all of you would agree that  we(exc) should baptize these people!/would any of you forbid that these people should be baptized?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC10_48","074_10_48","ACT","10","48","48","Then Peter told those non-Jewish people that they should be baptized  to show that they had believed MTY in the  Lord Jesus Christ.  So they baptized all of them. After they were baptized, they requested that Peter stay  with them several days.  So Peter and the other Jewish believers did that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_1","074_11_1","ACT","11","1","1","The apostles and  other believers who lived in various towns in Judea  province heard people say that  some non-Jewish people had believed the message  from God  about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_2","074_11_2","ACT","11","2","2","So when Peter  and the six other believers returned  from Caesarea to Jerusalem,  some Jewish believers criticized Peter,  because they thought that Jews should not associate with non-Jews MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_3","074_11_3","ACT","11","3","3","They said to him, “Not only was it wrong for you(sg) to visit non-Jewish people, you  even ate with them!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_4","074_11_4","ACT","11","4","4","So Peter began to explain exactly  what had happened concerning Cornelius. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_5","074_11_5","ACT","11","5","5","He said, “I was praying  by myself in Joppa  town, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw that something like a large sheet was being lowered from heaven.  It was tied with ropes at its four corners, and it came down to where I was. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_6","074_11_6","ACT","11","6","6","As I was looking intently into it, I saw some tame animals  but also animals that our laws forbid us to eat, including wild animals, snakes, and wild birds. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_7","074_11_7","ACT","11","7","7","Then I heard God MTY commanding me, ‘Peter, get up, kill  some of these, and  cook and eat  their meat!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_8","074_11_8","ACT","11","8","8","But I replied, ‘Lord,  you(sg) surely do not  really want me to do that, because I have never eaten MTY meat  from any animal that  our laws say that we (exc) must not eat SYN!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_9","074_11_9","ACT","11","9","9","God spoke from heaven  to me a second time, ‘ I am God,  so if I have made something acceptable  to eat, do not say that it is not acceptable  to eat!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_10","074_11_10","ACT","11","10","10","Then  after that happened three times, the sheet with all  those animals and birds was pulled up into heaven again.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_11","074_11_11","ACT","11","11","11","“At that exact moment, three men who had been {whom Cornelius had} sent from Caesarea arrived at the house where I was staying. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_12","074_11_12","ACT","11","12","12"," God’s Spirit told me that I should be willing to go with them  even though they were not Jews. These six  Jewish believers  from Joppa went with me  to Caesarea, and then we (exc) went into that non-Jewish man’s house. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_13","074_11_13","ACT","11","13","13","He told us that he had seen an angel standing in his house. The angel told him, ‘Tell some  men to go to Joppa and bring back Simon whose other name is Peter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_14","074_11_14","ACT","11","14","14","He will tell you (sg) how you and everyone MTY else in your house will be saved {how  God will save you and everyone MTY else in your house}.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_15","074_11_15","ACT","11","15","15","After I started to speak, the Holy Spirit  suddenly came down on them, just like he had first MTY come on us  during the Pentecost festival. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_16","074_11_16","ACT","11","16","16","Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John caused people to be baptized in water, but  God will cause the Holy Spirit  to enter you and change your lives.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_17","074_11_17","ACT","11","17","17","God gave those non-Jews the same Holy Spirit that he had given to us (inc) after we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. So, ◄ I could not  possibly tell God that he did wrong  when he gave them the Holy Spirit!/how could I  tell God that he did wrong  when he gave them the Holy Spirit?► RHQ  He was showing that he had received them!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_18","074_11_18","ACT","11","18","18","After  those Jewish believers heard what Peter said, they stopped criticizing  him. Instead, they praised God, saying, “Then it is  clear to us that God has also accepted the non-Jews so that they will have eternal life, if they turn from their sinful behavior  and believe in Jesus!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_19","074_11_19","ACT","11","19","19","After  people had killed Stephen, many of the believers left  Jerusalem and went to other places, because people were causing them to suffer  there in Jerusalem. Some of them went to Phoenicia  region, some went to Cyprus  Island, and others went to Antioch  city in Syria province. In those places they were continually telling people the message  about Jesus, but they told only other Jewish people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_20","074_11_20","ACT","11","20","20","Some of the believers were men from Cyprus and from Cyrene  city in north Africa. They went to Antioch, and  although they told other Jews about the Lord Jesus, they also told non-Jewish people  there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_21","074_11_21","ACT","11","21","21","The Lord  God MTY was powerfully enabling those  believers to preach effectively. As a result, very many non-Jewish people believed  their message and trusted in the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_22","074_11_22","ACT","11","22","22","The group of believers in Jerusalem heard MTY  people say that many people in Antioch were believing in Jesus. So the  leaders of the congregation in  Jerusalem asked Barnabas to go to Antioch. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_23","074_11_23","ACT","11","23","23","When he got  there, he realized that God had acted kindly toward  the believers. So he was very happy, and he continually encouraged all of the believers to continue to trust completely in the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_24","074_11_24","ACT","11","24","24","Barnabas was a good man  whom the Holy Spirit completely controlled, one who trusted  God completely.  Because of what Barnabas did, many people  there believed in the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_25","074_11_25","ACT","11","25","25","Then Barnabas went to Tarsus  in Cilicia province to try to find Saul. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_26","074_11_26","ACT","11","26","26","After he found him, Barnabas brought him  back to Antioch  to help teach the believers. So during a whole year Barnabas and Saul met  regularly with the congregation  there and taught many of them  about Jesus. It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians { that people first called the believers Christians}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_27","074_11_27","ACT","11","27","27","During the time  that Barnabas and Saul were at Antioch, some believers who were prophets arrived there from Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_28","074_11_28","ACT","11","28","28","One of them, whose name was Agabus, stood up  in order to speak.  God’s Spirit enabled him to prophesy ◄that there would soon be a famine in many countries/that  people in many countries HYP would soon  suffer because they would not have enough  food to eat►. (That famine happened when Claudius was the Roman Emperor.) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_29","074_11_29","ACT","11","29","29","When the believers  there heard what Agabus said, they decided that they would send  money to help the believers who lived in Judea. Each  of them decided to give as much money as he was able  to give. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC11_30","074_11_30","ACT","11","30","30","They sent  the money with Barnabas and Saul to the leaders of the congregation  in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_1","074_12_1","ACT","12","1","1","It was about this time that King Herod Agrippa sent soldiers MTY who seized  and put in prison some of the  leaders of the congregation  in Jerusalem. He did that because he wanted to make the believers suffer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_2","074_12_2","ACT","12","2","2","He commanded  a soldier to cut off the head of  the apostle James, the  older brother of  the apostle John. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_3","074_12_3","ACT","12","3","3","When Herod realized that he had pleased the  leaders of the Jewish people by  doing that, he commanded  soldiers to arrest Peter  in order to kill him, too. This happened during the festival  when the Jewish people ate bread  that did not have yeast. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_4","074_12_4","ACT","12","4","4","After  they seized Peter, they put him in prison. They arranged for four groups of soldiers to guard Peter. Each  group had four soldiers.  Every three hours a different group began to guard him while the others rested. Herod wanted to bring Peter out  of prison and judge him in front of the  Jewish people after the Passover  Festival was finished. He then planned to command soldiers to execute Peter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_5","074_12_5","ACT","12","5","5","So  for several days Peter was kept {they kept Peter} in prison. But the  other believers in the congregation at  Jerusalem were praying earnestly to God  that he would help Peter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_6","074_12_6","ACT","12","6","6","The night  before Herod planned to bring Peter out  from prison to have him executed publicly, Peter was sleeping  in the prison between two soldiers, with two chains binding his arms  to the arms of the soldiers. Two other soldiers were guarding the prison doors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_7","074_12_7","ACT","12","7","7","Suddenly an angel  from the Lord  God stood  beside Peter, and a  bright light shone in his cell. The angel poked Peter in the side and woke him up and said, “Get up quickly!”  While Peter was getting up, the chains fell off from his wrists.  However, the soldiers were not aware of what was happening. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_8","074_12_8","ACT","12","8","8","Then the angel said to Peter, “Put on your clothes and sandals!” So Peter did. Then the angel said to him, “Fasten your belt/girdle  around you(sg) and put on your sandals!” So Peter did that. Then the angel told him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_9","074_12_9","ACT","12","9","9","So,  after Peter put on his cloak and sandals, he followed  the angel out  of the prison cell, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening. He thought  that he was seeing a vision. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_10","074_12_10","ACT","12","10","10","Peter and the angel walked by the soldiers who were guarding the two doors,  but the soldiers did not see them. Then they came to the iron gate that  led out into the city. The gate opened by itself, and Peter and the angel walked out  of the prison. After they had walked  a ways along one street, the angel suddenly disappeared. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_11","074_12_11","ACT","12","11","11","Then Peter  finally realized that  what had happened to him was not a vision, but it had really happened. So he said  to himself, “Now I really know that the Lord  God sent an angel  to help me. He rescued me from what Herod planned to do MTY  to me, and  also from all the things that the Jewish  leaders SYN expected  that Herod would do to me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_12","074_12_12","ACT","12","12","12","When Peter realized  that God had rescued him, he went to Mary’s house. She was the mother of John whose other name was Mark. Many believers had assembled there, and they were praying  that God would help Peter somehow. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_13","074_12_13","ACT","12","13","13","When Peter knocked at the outer entrance, a servant girl named Rhoda came to find out  who was outside the door. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_14","074_12_14","ACT","12","14","14"," When Peter answered her, she recognized his voice, but she was so happy  and excited that she did not open the door! Instead, she ran back  into the house. She excitedly announced  to the other believers that Peter was standing outside the door. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_15","074_12_15","ACT","12","15","15","But  one of them said to her, “You (sg) are crazy!” But she continued saying that it was  really true. Then they repeatedly said, “ No,  it cannot be Peter. It is probably the angel  who was guarding him  who has come (OR, It is the angel  who has guarded/protected him,  and he has come to tell us that Peter  has died.)” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_16","074_12_16","ACT","12","16","16","But Peter continued knocking  on the door. So when someone finally opened the door, they saw that it was Peter, and they were completely amazed! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_17","074_12_17","ACT","12","17","17","Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet. Then he told them exactly how the Lord  God had led him out of the prison. He  also said, “Tell James, the  leader of our  congregation, and our  other fellow believers what has happened.” Then  Peter left and went away to another town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_18","074_12_18","ACT","12","18","18","The next morning the soldiers  who had been guarding Peter became terribly distressed,  because they did not know what had happened to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_19","074_12_19","ACT","12","19","19","Then Herod  heard about it. So he  commanded soldiers to search for Peter, but they did not find him. Then he questioned the soldiers  who had been guarding Peter, and asked them, “ How did Peter get away when you were there guarding him?”  But they could not explain it. So he commanded them to be led away  to be executed { other soldiers to lead them away  to execute them}.  Afterwards, Herod went from Judea  province down to Caesarea, where he stayed  for some time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_20","074_12_20","ACT","12","20","20","King Herod had been furiously angry with the people  who lived in Tyre and Sidon  cities. Then one day some men  who represented them came unitedly  to Caesarea in order to meet with Herod. They persuaded Blastus, who was one of Herod’s important officials, to tell  Herod that the people  in their cities wanted to make peace  with him. They wanted to be able to trade with the people that Herod ruled, because they needed to buy food from those regions.  Herod had commanded the people in the areas he ruled to stop selling food to the people in those cities. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_21","074_12_21","ACT","12","21","21","On the day that Herod had planned to  meet with them, he put on ◄very expensive clothes that showed that he was king/his royal robes►. Then he sat on his ◄throne/chair from which he ruled  people►, and formally addressed  all the people  who had gathered there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_22","074_12_22","ACT","12","22","22","Those who  were listening to him shouted repeatedly, “ This man who is speaking is a god, not a man!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_23","074_12_23","ACT","12","23","23","So, because Herod  let the people praise him instead of praising God, immediately an angel  from the Lord  God caused Herod to become seriously ill.  Many worms ate his intestines, and  soon he died  very painfully. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_24","074_12_24","ACT","12","24","24"," The believers continued telling God’s message to people in many places, and ◄ the number of people who believed in Jesus was continually increasing/there were continually more and more people who were believing in Jesus►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC12_25","074_12_25","ACT","12","25","25","When Barnabas and Saul finished  delivering the money to help the Jewish believers in Judea, they left Jerusalem and returned  to Antioch, in Syria province. They took John, whose other name was Mark, with them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_1","074_13_1","ACT","13","1","1","Among  the people in the congregation at Antioch there were ◄prophets/those who spoke messages from God► and those who taught  people about Jesus. They were Barnabas; Simeon, who was also called Niger/Blackman; Lucius, from Cyrene  city; Manaen, who had grown up with  King Herod Antipas; and Saul. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_2","074_13_2","ACT","13","2","2","While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said  to them, “Appoint Barnabas and Saul to  serve me and to  go and do the work that I have chosen them  to do!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_3","074_13_3","ACT","13","3","3","So they continued ◄to fast/to abstain from eating food► and pray. Then having put their hands on Barnabas and Saul and  praying that God would help them, they sent them off  to do what the Holy Spirit had commanded. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_4","074_13_4","ACT","13","4","4","Barnabas and Saul, guided by the Holy Spirit, went down  from Antioch to Seleucia  port. From there they went by ship to Salamis  port on Cyprus Island. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_5","074_13_5","ACT","13","5","5","While they were in Salamis,  they went to the Jewish meeting places. There they proclaimed the message from God  about Jesus. John  Mark went with them and was helping them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_6","074_13_6","ACT","13","6","6"," The three of them went across the entire island to Paphos  city. There they met a magician whose name was Bar-Jesus. He was a Jew who falsely  claimed ◄to be a prophet/to speak messages from God►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_7","074_13_7","ACT","13","7","7","He often accompanied the governor  of the island, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor sent  someone to ask Barnabas and Saul to come to him, because he wanted to hear God’s message.  So Barnabas and Saul came and told him about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_8","074_13_8","ACT","13","8","8","However, the magician, whose name was Elymas  in the Greek language, was opposing them. He repeatedly tried to persuade the governor not to believe  in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_9","074_13_9","ACT","13","9","9","Then Saul, who now called himself Paul, empowered by the Holy Spirit, looked intently at the magician and said, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_10","074_13_10","ACT","13","10","10","“You (sg) are serving the devil and you oppose everything that is good! You are always lying  to people and doing  other evil things to them. ◄You must stop saying that the truth about the Lord  God is a lot of lies!/When will you stop changing what is true about the Lord  God and saying what is not true about him?► RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_11","074_13_11","ACT","13","11","11","Right now the Lord  God MTY is going to punish you! You will become blind and not  even be able to see light for  some time.” At once he became  blind, as though he was in a dark mist, and he groped about, searching for someone  to hold him by the hand and lead him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_12","074_13_12","ACT","13","12","12","When the governor saw what had happened  to Elymas, he believed  in the Lord Jesus. He was amazed by  what Paul and Barnabas were teaching about the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_13","074_13_13","ACT","13","13","13"," After that, Paul and the two men with him went by ship from Paphos to Perga  port in Pamphylia  province. At Perga John  Mark left them and returned to  his home in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_14","074_13_14","ACT","13","14","14","Then Paul and Barnabas traveled  by land from Perga, and arrived in Antioch  city near Pisidia  district in Galatia province. ◄On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day► they entered the synagogue/the Jewish meeting place and sat down. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_15","074_13_15","ACT","13","15","15"," Someone read  aloud from what  Moses had written. Then someone read from what the other prophets  had written MTY. Then the leaders of the Jewish meeting place gave  someone this note  to take to Paul and Barnabas: “Fellow Jews, if  one of you wants to speak to the people  here to encourage them, please speak  to us(exc) now.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_16","074_13_16","ACT","13","16","16","So Paul stood up and motioned with his right hand  so that the people would listen to him. Then he said, “Fellow Israelis and you non-Jewish people who  also worship God,  please listen  to me! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_17","074_13_17","ACT","13","17","17","God, whom we (inc) Israelis worship, chose our ancestors  to be his people, and he caused them to become very numerous while they were foreigners living in Egypt.  Then after many years, God helped them MTY powerfully and led them out of there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_18","074_13_18","ACT","13","18","18"," Even though they repeatedly disobeyed him, he cared for them for about 40 years  while they were in the desert. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_19","074_13_19","ACT","13","19","19","He  enabled the Israelis to conquer seven tribal groups  who were then living in Canaan  region, and he gave their land to us Israelis for us to possess. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_20","074_13_20","ACT","13","20","20"," Our ancestors began to possess Canaan about 450 years after  their ancestors had arrived in Egypt.” Acts 13:20b-22 “After that, God appointed leaders  to rule the Israeli people. Those leaders continued to rule our people until the time when the prophet Samuel  ruled them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_21","074_13_21","ACT","13","21","21","Then,  while Samuel was still their leader, the people demanded that he  appoint a king  to rule them. So God appointed Saul, the son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin,  to be their king. He  ruled them for 40 years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_22","074_13_22","ACT","13","22","22","After God had rejected Saul  from being king, he appointed David to be their king. God said about him, ‘I have observed that David, son of Jesse, is exactly the kind of man that I desire IDM. He will do  everything that I want  him to do.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_23","074_13_23","ACT","13","23","23","“From  among David’s descendants, God brought one of them, Jesus, to  us Israeli people to save us, just like he had told  David and our other ancestors that he would do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_24","074_13_24","ACT","13","24","24","Before Jesus began his work, John  the Baptizer preached to all of our Israeli people  who came to him. He told them that they should turn away from their sinful behavior  and ask God to forgive them. Then he would baptize them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_25","074_13_25","ACT","13","25","25","When John was about to finish the work  that God gave him to do, he frequently said  to the people, ‘Do you think RHQ that I am  the Messiah whom God promised to send? No, I am not. But listen! The Messiah will  soon come.  He is so much greater than I am that I am not  even important enough to be his slave MET.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_26","074_13_26","ACT","13","26","26","“Fellow Israelis, you who are descendants of Abraham, and  you non-Jewish people who also worship God,  please listen! It is to  all of us that  God has sent the message about  how he saves people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_27","074_13_27","ACT","13","27","27","The people who were living in Jerusalem and their rulers did not realize that this man  Jesus was the one whom God had sent to save them. Although messages from MTY the prophets have been read  aloud {someone has read  aloud messages from MTY the prophets} every ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest►, they did not understand  what the prophets wrote about the Messiah. So the  Jewish leaders condemned Jesus  to die, which was just like the prophets predicted. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_28","074_13_28","ACT","13","28","28"," Many people accused Jesus of doing wicked things, but they could not prove that he had done anything for which he deserved to die. They insistently asked Pilate  the governor to command that Jesus be executed {to command soldiers to execute Jesus}.  So Pilate did what they asked him to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_29","074_13_29","ACT","13","29","29","They did  to Jesus all the things that  the prophets long ago had written  that people would do to him.  They killed Jesus by nailing him to a cross. Then his body was taken { some people took his body} down from the cross and placed it in a tomb. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_30","074_13_30","ACT","13","30","30","However, God ◄raised him from the dead/caused him to live again after he had died► ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_31","074_13_31","ACT","13","31","31","and for many days he  repeatedly appeared to  his followers who had come along with him from Galilee  province to Jerusalem. Those  who saw him are telling the  Jewish people about him now.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_32","074_13_32","ACT","13","32","32","“ Right now we  two are proclaiming to you this good message. We want to tell you that God has fulfilled what he promised to  our Jewish ancestors! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_33","074_13_33","ACT","13","33","33","He has now done that for us (inc) who are their descendants,  and also for you who are not Jews, by causing Jesus to live again. That is just like what  David wrote in the second Psalm that  God said when he was sending his Son, You (sg) are my Son; Today I have shown everyone  that I really am your Father. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_34","074_13_34","ACT","13","34","34"," God has ◄raised  the Messiah from the dead/caused  the Messiah to live again after he had died► and will never let him die again.  Concerning that, God said  to our Jewish ancestors, ‘I will surely help you, as I  promised David  that I would do.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_35","074_13_35","ACT","13","35","35","So  in writing another  Psalm, David said this  to God about the Messiah: ‘Because I am devoted to you and always obey  you, when I die you (sg) will not let my body decay.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_36","074_13_36","ACT","13","36","36","While David was living, he did what God wanted him to do. And when he died EUP, his  body was buried,  as his ancestors’  bodies had been buried, and his body decayed.  So he could not have been speaking about himself in this Psalm. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_37","074_13_37","ACT","13","37","37"," Instead, he was speaking about Jesus. Jesus also died, but God ◄raised him from the dead/caused him to live again►, and  therefore his body did not decay.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_38","074_13_38","ACT","13","38","39","“Therefore,  my fellow Israelis  and other friends, it is important for you to know that  we(exc) are declaring to you  that God can forgive you for your sins as a result of  what Jesus  has done. Because of  what Jesus  has done,  God considers that everyone who believes  in Jesus is no longer guilty (OR, the record has been erased { God has erased the record}) concerning everything that they  have done that displeased God. But when  God does  that for you, it is not as a result of  your obeying the laws  that Moses  wrote. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_40","074_13_40","ACT","13","40","40","Therefore be careful that  God does not judge you MTY, as one of the prophets said MTY that God would do! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_41","074_13_41","ACT","13","41","41"," The prophet wrote that God said, You who ridicule  me, you will  certainly be astonished  when you see what I am doing, and  then you will be destroyed. You will be astonished because I will do something  terrible to you while you are living. You would not believe  that I would do that even though someone told you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_42","074_13_42","ACT","13","42","42","After Paul  finished speaking, while he and Barnabas were leaving the Jewish meeting place,  many of the people there repeatedly requested that on the next ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest►  the two of them should speak to them  again about those things  that Paul had just told them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_43","074_13_43","ACT","13","43","43","After they began to leave  that meeting, many  of them went along with Paul and Barnabas. They consisted of Jews and also of non-Jews who had accepted the things that the Jews believe. Paul and Barnabas continued talking to them, and were urging them to continue believing the message that God kindly  forgives people’s sins because of what Jesus did. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_44","074_13_44","ACT","13","44","44","On the next Jewish rest day, most of the  people in Antioch came to the Jewish meeting place to hear  Paul and Barnabas speak about the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_45","074_13_45","ACT","13","45","45","But  the leaders of SYN the Jews became extremely jealous, because they saw that large crowds of non-Jewish people were coming to hear Paul and Barnabas. So they began to contradict the things that Paul was saying  and also to insult  him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_46","074_13_46","ACT","13","46","46","Then, speaking very boldly, Paul and Barnabas said  to those Jewish leaders, “ We two had to speak the message from God  about Jesus to you  Jews first  before we proclaim it to non-Jews, because God commanded us to do that. But you are rejecting God’s message.  By doing that, you have shown that you are not worthy ◄to have eternal life/to live eternally  with God►.  Therefore, we are leaving  you, and now we will go to the non-Jewish people  to tell them the message from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_47","074_13_47","ACT","13","47","47"," We are doing that also because the Lord  God has commanded us  to do it. He said to us, ‘I have appointed you  to reveal things about me to non-Jewish people MET that will be  like a light to them.  I have appointed you to tell people everywhere MTY in the world  about the one who came to save  them.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_48","074_13_48","ACT","13","48","48","While the non-Jewish people were listening  to those words, they began to rejoice, and they repeatedly said that the message about the Lord  Jesus was wonderful. And all of the non-Jewish people whom  God had chosen ◄to have eternal  life/to live eternally with God► believed  the message about the Lord Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_49","074_13_49","ACT","13","49","49"," At that time, many of the believers traveled around throughout that region. As they did that, they were proclaiming the message about the Lord  Jesus MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_50","074_13_50","ACT","13","50","50","However,  some leaders of SYN the Jews incited the most important men in the city, and  some important/influential women who had accepted what the Jews believe, to oppose  Paul and Barnabas. So those non-Jewish people incited  other people also to persecute Paul and Barnabas. As a result they expelled the two men from their region. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_51","074_13_51","ACT","13","51","51","So,  as the two apostles were leaving, they shook the dust from their feet  to show those Jewish leaders that God had rejected them and would punish them. They left Antioch and went to Iconium  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC13_52","074_13_52","ACT","13","52","52","Meanwhile, the believers  in Antioch continued to rejoice greatly, and they continued to be completely controlled by the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_1","074_14_1","ACT","14","1","1","At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish meeting place and spoke very convincingly  about the Lord Jesus. As a result, many Jews and also non-Jews believed  in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_2","074_14_2","ACT","14","2","2","But  some of the Jews refused to believe  that message, and told the non-Jews not to believe it. They told the non-Jewish people that the message  about Jesus was not true. As a result,  some of the non-Jews became angry towards the believers  there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_3","074_14_3","ACT","14","3","3","So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there speaking boldly for the Lord, and the Lord Jesus enabled them to do many miracles. In this way he showed  people that the message about how the Lord saves us in a way that we do not deserve is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_4","074_14_4","ACT","14","4","4","The people  who lived  in Iconium  city strongly disagreed with each other  concerning the message about Jesus. Some of them agreed with the Jews SYN  who did not believe that message. Others agreed with Paul and Barnabas. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_5","074_14_5","ACT","14","5","5","Then the non-Jewish people and the Jewish  leaders  SYN  who opposed those two talked among themselves about how they could mistreat them. Some of the important men in that city agreed to help them. Together, they decided that they would  kill Paul and Barnabas by  throwing stones at them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_6","074_14_6","ACT","14","6","6","But Paul and Barnabas heard about that, so they quickly went away to Lycaonia  district. They went to Lystra and Derbe  cities in that district and to the area surrounding  those cities. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_7","074_14_7","ACT","14","7","7"," While they were in that area, they continually told people the message  about the Lord Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_8","074_14_8","ACT","14","8","8"," Once while Paul was preaching to people in Lystra, a man was sitting there who was crippled in his legs. When  his mother bore him he had crippled legs, so he was never able to walk. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_9","074_14_9","ACT","14","9","9","He listened as Paul was speaking  about the Lord Jesus. Paul looked directly at him and could see  in the man’s face that he believed that  the Lord Jesus could make him well. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_10","074_14_10","ACT","14","10","10","So Paul called out  to him, “Stand up!”  When the man heard that, he  immediately jumped up and began to walk  normally. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_11","074_14_11","ACT","14","11","11","When the crowd saw what Paul had done,  they thought that Paul and Barnabas ◄ were/must be►  the gods that they worshipped. So they shouted excitedly in their  own Lycaonia language, “ Look! These people are the gods  that we(inc) worship! They have made themselves look like people and have come down  from the sky/heaven to help us!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_12","074_14_12","ACT","14","12","12","They began to say that Barnabas was probably the chief god, whose name was Zeus. And  they began to say that Paul was Hermes,  the messenger/spokesman for the other gods. They mistakenly thought that because Paul was the one who had been speaking. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_13","074_14_13","ACT","14","13","13","Just outside  the gates of the city there was a temple  where the people worshipped Zeus. The priest who was there heard what Paul and Barnabas had done, so he came to the city gate, where many people had already gathered. He brought  two  bulls with wreaths  of flowers around their necks. The priest and the other people wanted to kill the bulls  as part of a ceremony to worship Paul and Barnabas. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_14","074_14_14","ACT","14","14","14","But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard about that,  and understood that the people thought that they were gods and wanted to sacrifice the bulls to worship them, they  were very distressed, so they tore their own clothes. They rushed among the people, shouting, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_15","074_14_15","ACT","14","15","15","“Men, ◄you must not kill those bulls  to worship us(dl)!/why are you doing this?► RHQ  We are not gods! We are just human beings like you! We have come to tell you some good news!  We have come to tell you about the God who is all-powerful. He wants you to stop worshipping other gods, because they cannot help you. This true God made the heaven/sky and the earth and the oceans and everything in it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_16","074_14_16","ACT","14","16","16","In the past, all of you non-Jewish people  worshipped whatever gods that you wanted to. God let you worship them,  because you did not know him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_17","074_14_17","ACT","14","17","17","But he has shown us LIT  that he acts kindly  toward us(inc). He is the one who causes it to rain and causes crops to grow. He is the one who gives you plenty of food, and makes you very happy.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_18","074_14_18","ACT","14","18","18","The people heard what  Paul said, but they still thought that they should sacrifice those bulls to worship Paul and Barnabas.  But finally, the people decided not to do it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_19","074_14_19","ACT","14","19","19"," However, after that, some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and persuaded many of the people of Lystra  that the message Paul had been telling them was not true. The people  who believed what those Jews said became angry with Paul. They let the Jews throw stones at him  until he fell down, unconscious. They  all thought that he was dead, so they dragged him outside the city  and left him lying there. But some of the believers  in Lystra had followed them outside the city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_20","074_14_20","ACT","14","20","20","They came and stood around Paul,  where he was lying on the ground. And Paul  became conscious! He stood up and went back into the city  with the believers. Acts 14:20b-23 The next day, Paul and Barnabas  left Lystra and traveled to Derbe. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_21","074_14_21","ACT","14","21","21","They  stayed there several days and they kept telling the people the good message  about Jesus. Many people became believers. After that, Paul and Barnabas  started on their way back. They went again to Lystra.  Then they went from there to Iconium, and  then they went to Antioch  in Pisidia province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_22","074_14_22","ACT","14","22","22"," In each city, they helped the believers SYN to become strong spiritually, and they urged them to keep on trusting in  the Lord Jesus. They told  the believers, “It is necessary that  we endure people often persecuting us (inc) before we enter the place where God will rule  over us forever.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_23","074_14_23","ACT","14","23","23","Paul and Barnabas appointed leaders for each congregation.  And before Paul and Barnabas left each town, they gathered the believers together and spent some time praying and ◄fasting/not eating any food►. Then Paul and Barnabas entrusted the  leaders and other believers to the Lord  Jesus, in whom they had believed,  in order that he would care for them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_24","074_14_24","ACT","14","24","24","After Paul and Barnabas had traveled through Pisidia  district, they went  south to Pamphylia  district. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_25","074_14_25","ACT","14","25","25"," In that district, they  arrived at Perga and preached God’s message  about the Lord Jesus to the people there. Then they went down  to the seacoast at Attalia. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_26","074_14_26","ACT","14","26","26","There they got on a ship and went back to Antioch  in Syria province. That was the place where Paul and Barnabas had been appointed {where believers had sent Paul and Barnabas} to go  to other places and preach. Antioch was the place where the believers had asked God to kindly help Paul and Barnabas in the work that they had now completed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_27","074_14_27","ACT","14","27","27","When they arrived in Antioch, they called the believers together. Then Paul and Barnabas told them all that God had helped them to do.  Specifically, they told them how God had enabled IDM  many non-Jewish people to believe  in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC14_28","074_14_28","ACT","14","28","28","Then Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch with the  other believers for several months. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_1","074_15_1","ACT","15","1","1"," Then some  Jewish believers went down from Judea  province to Antioch. They started teaching the non-Jewish believers  there, and said, “ You ◄ must be circumcised/must have God’s mark put on you►  to indicate you belong to God, as Moses  commanded in the laws that  he received from God. If you do not do that, you will not be saved { God will not save you}.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_2","074_15_2","ACT","15","2","2","Paul and Barnabas strongly disagreed with those Jews and started arguing  with them. So the believers at Antioch appointed Paul and Barnabas and some of the other believers to go to Jerusalem, in order that they would/could discuss this matter with the apostles and  other spiritual leaders. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_3","074_15_3","ACT","15","3","3","After Paul, Barnabas, and the others were given things for their trip by the congregation  at Antioch {After the congregation  at Antioch gave Paul, Barnabas, and the others things for their trip}, they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria  provinces. When they stopped at different places in those provinces, they reported  to the believers that  many non-Jews  in Antioch had become believers. As a result, all the believers  in those places rejoiced greatly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_4","074_15_4","ACT","15","4","4","And when Paul, Barnabas, and the others arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the apostles, the  other elders, and the  other members of the congregation  there {the apostles, the  other elders, and the  other members of the congregation  there welcomed them}. Then Paul and Barnabas reported the things that God had enabled them to do  among non-Jewish people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_5","074_15_5","ACT","15","5","5","But some of the  Jewish believers who belonged to the Pharisee sect stood up  among the other believers and said to them, “The non-Jews  who have believed in Jesus must be circumcised, and they must be told to obey the laws  that God gave to Moses.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_6","074_15_6","ACT","15","6","6","Then the apostles and  the other elders met together in order to talk about this matter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_7","074_15_7","ACT","15","7","7","After they had discussed it for a long time, Peter stood up and spoke to them. He said, “Fellow believers, you  all know that a long time ago God chose me from among you  other apostles, in order that the non-Jewish people might  also hear me SYN tell  them the good message  about the Lord Jesus, so that they could hear  it and believe  in him. So Paul and Barnabas are not the first ones to tell non-Jews about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_8","074_15_8","ACT","15","8","8","God knows  and judges people according to what they think,  not according to who their ancestors were. By sending the Holy Spirit to  the non-Jews, just like  he had also done for us (inc) Jews, he showed  me and others that he had accepted them  also to be his people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_9","074_15_9","ACT","15","9","9"," God saved us  Jews and those non-Jews similarly, making them clean spiritually simply as a result of their believing  in the Lord Jesus. That was exactly how he has forgiven us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_10","074_15_10","ACT","15","10","10"," You are wanting to force the non-Jewish believers to obey our Jewish rituals and laws—laws that God has shown that he does not require them to obey MET.  Your doing that is like putting a heavy burden on them! So then, ◄stop making God angry by doing that!/why are you making God angry by doing that?► RHQ Our ancestors and we (inc) Jews have never been able to bear  the burden of obeying those laws! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_11","074_15_11","ACT","15","11","11","But we (inc) know that it is not because we (inc) try to obey those laws that God saves us(inc) Jews. On the contrary, we (inc) know that it is because of what the Lord Jesus did for us (inc) that we did not deserve that we (inc) are saved {that  God saves us}  from the guilt of our sins. God saves non-Jews who believe in the Lord Jesus exactly like  he saves us Jews.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_12","074_15_12","ACT","15","12","12","All the people  there became silent  after Peter had spoken. Then they  all listened to Barnabas and Paul,  as the two of them told about the many great miracles that God had enabled them to do among the non-Jewish people,  miracles that showed that God had accepted the non-Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_13","074_15_13","ACT","15","13","13","When Barnabas and Paul had finished speaking, James,  the leader of the group of believers there in Jerusalem, spoke to all of them.  He said, “Fellow believers, listen to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_14","074_15_14","ACT","15","14","14","Simon Peter has told you how God previously blessed the non-Jews. God did that by choosing from among them a people who would belong to him MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_15","074_15_15","ACT","15","15","15"," These words that  God spoke, words that were written by  one of the prophets {that one of the prophets wrote}  long ago, agree with that: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_16","074_15_16","ACT","15","16","16","Later on I will return and I will re-establish the kingdom MET that David  ruled and that has been {that  people have} destroyed. My  doing that will be like rebuilding  a house that has been {that  people have} torn down. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_17","074_15_17","ACT","15","17","17","I will do that in order that all other people might seek  me, the Lord  God. I will do that in order that all the non-Jews whom I have called  to belong to me MTY might seek me.  You can be certain that this will happen because I the Lord  God, who will do those things, have spoken  these words. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_18","074_15_18","ACT","15","18","18","I  caused my people to know about them long ago.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_19","074_15_19","ACT","15","19","19","James continued by saying, “Therefore I have decided  that we(inc) should stop bothering the non-Jewish people who are turning  away from their sins and turning to God.  That is, we should stop demanding that they obey all  our laws and rituals. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_20","074_15_20","ACT","15","20","20","Instead, we should write  a letter to them  requiring only four things: They should not eat  meat/food that people have offered to idols, they should not have sex with someone to whom they are not married, they should not  eat meat from animals that have been killed by being strangled { people have strangled}, and  they should not eat the blood  of animals. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_21","074_15_21","ACT","15","21","21","In many cities, for a very long time people have been proclaiming  the laws that Moses  wrote MTY,  laws prohibiting those things. And every ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest►  those laws are read {someone reads  those laws} in the Jewish meeting places.  So if the non-Jews want to know more about those laws, they can find out in our meeting houses.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_22","074_15_22","ACT","15","22","22","The apostles and the  other elders, along with all the  other members of the congregation, accepted  what James had said. Then they decided that they should choose men from among themselves and that they should send them, along with Paul and Barnabas, to Antioch, to  let the believers there know what the leaders at Jerusalem had decided. So they chose Judas, who was also called Barsabbas, and Silas, who were leaders among the believers  at Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_23","074_15_23","ACT","15","23","23","Then they wrote the following letter  that they asked Judas and Silas to take to the believers at Antioch: “ We(exc) apostles and  other leaders who are your fellow believers  send our greetings to you as we write this to you non-Jewish believers  who live in Antioch and  other places in Syria and Cilicia  provinces. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_24","074_15_24","ACT","15","24","24","People have told us that some men from among us went  to you, although we had not told  them to do that. They troubled/distressed you SYN  by telling you things that confused your thinking. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_25","074_15_25","ACT","15","25","25","So  while we(exc) met together here, we decided to choose some men and ask them to go to you, along with Barnabas and Paul, whom we (exc) love very much. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_26","074_15_26","ACT","15","26","26","Those two have put their lives in danger because of their  serving our Lord MTY Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_27","074_15_27","ACT","15","27","27","We (exc) have also chosen Judas and Silas to go to you. They will tell you the same things  that we are writing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_28","074_15_28","ACT","15","28","28","The Holy Spirit and  also we decided that you should not be required {that we should not require you} to obey a lot of burdensome  Jewish laws. Instead,  we only  require you to obey the following instructions, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_29","074_15_29","ACT","15","29","29","You should not eat food that people have sacrificed to idols. You should not eat blood from animals, and you should not eat meat from animals that people have killed by strangling them. Also, you should not have sex with someone to whom you are not married. Those things  especially offend Jewish believers. So if you avoid doing them, you will be doing what is right. That is all.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_30","074_15_30","ACT","15","30","30","The  four men whom  they had chosen went  from Jerusalem to Antioch  city. When all the believers  there had assembled together, Judas and Silas gave the letter to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_31","074_15_31","ACT","15","31","31","When the believers there read the letter, they rejoiced,  because its message encouraged them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_32","074_15_32","ACT","15","32","32"," Just like Paul and Barnabas were ◄ prophets/men who spoke messages from God►, Judas and Silas were also prophets. They spoke for a long time and encouraged the believers  there, and helped them to trust more strongly  in the Lord Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_33","074_15_33","ACT","15","33","34","After Judas and Silas  had stayed in Antioch for some time  and were ready to return to Jerusalem, the believers  there wished them well, and the believers  prayed that God  would protect  them as they traveled. So the two men  started to go back to the leaders  in Jerusalem  who had asked them to go  to Antioch. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_35","074_15_35","ACT","15","35","35","However, Paul and Barnabas continued to stay in Antioch.  While they were there, they, along with many others, were teaching  people and preaching to them the message about the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_36","074_15_36","ACT","15","36","36","After some time Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the fellow believers in every city where we  previously proclaimed the message about the Lord  Jesus. In that way, we will know how  well they are continuing  to believe in the Lord Jesus.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_37","074_15_37","ACT","15","37","37","Barnabas  agreed with Paul, and said that he wanted to take John, whose other name was Mark, along with them  again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_38","074_15_38","ACT","15","38","38","However, Paul  told Barnabas that he thought that it would not be good to take Mark  with them, because Mark had deserted them when they were previously in Pamphylia  region, and had not continued to work with them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_39","074_15_39","ACT","15","39","39","Paul and Barnabas strongly disagreed  with each other about that, so they separated. Barnabas took Mark  along with him and they got on a ship and went to Cyprus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_40","074_15_40","ACT","15","40","40","Paul chose Silas,  who had returned to Antioch, to work with him. The believers  there asked the Lord  God to graciously help  Paul and Silas. Then the two of them departed  from Antioch. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC15_41","074_15_41","ACT","15","41","41","Paul continued traveling  with Silas through Syria and Cilicia  provinces. In those places he was helping the congregations to trust strongly  in the Lord Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_1","074_16_1","ACT","16","1","1","Paul  and Silas went to Derbe  city and visited the believers there. Next  they went to Lystra  city. A believer whose name was Timothy lived there. His mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_2","074_16_2","ACT","16","2","2","The believers in Lystra and Iconium said good things about Timothy, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_3","074_16_3","ACT","16","3","3","and Paul wanted to take Timothy with him  when he went to other places, so he circumcised Timothy.  He did that so that the Jews who lived in those places  would accept Timothy, because they knew that his non-Jewish father  had not allowed him to be circumcised { anyone to circumcise his son}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_4","074_16_4","ACT","16","4","4"," So Timothy went with Paul and Silas and they traveled to many other towns.  In each town they told  the believers the rules that had been decided by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem {that the apostles and elders in Jerusalem had decided} that non-Jewish believers should obey. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_5","074_16_5","ACT","16","5","5"," God was helping the believers in those towns to trust more strongly  in the Lord Jesus, and every day more people became believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_6","074_16_6","ACT","16","6","6","Paul and his companions wanted/planned to enter Asia  province and preach the message  about Jesus there, but they were prevented by the Holy Spirit {the Holy Spirit prevented them}  from going there. So they traveled through Phrygia and Galatia  provinces. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_7","074_16_7","ACT","16","7","7","They arrived at the border of Mysia  province and they wanted to go  north into Bithynia  province. But  again the Spirit of Jesus showed them that they should not  go there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_8","074_16_8","ACT","16","8","8","So they went through Mysia  province and arrived at Troas, a  port city. I, Luke, joined them there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_9","074_16_9","ACT","16","9","9","That night  God gave  Paul a vision in which he saw a man  who was a native of Macedonia  province. He was standing  some distance away, and he was earnestly calling to Paul, “ Please come over  here to Macedonia and help us!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_10","074_16_10","ACT","16","10","10"," The next morning we (exc) immediately got ready to go to Macedonia, because we believed that God had called us to  go and preach the good message to the people there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_11","074_16_11","ACT","16","11","11","So we (exc) got on a ship in Troas and sailed across  the sea to Samothrace  Island. We spent the night there, and the next day  we sailed again across the sea and arrived at Neapolis  port/town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_12","074_16_12","ACT","16","12","12","Then we  left Neapolis and went  by land to Philippi. It was a very important city in Macedonia  province, where many Roman citizens lived. We stayed in Philippi several days. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_13","074_16_13","ACT","16","13","13","On the first ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest►  after we(exc) arrived, we went outside the city gate  down to the river. We had heard  someone say that  Jewish people gathered to pray there.  When we arrived there, we saw some women who had gathered  to pray. So we sat down and began to tell them  the message about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_14","074_16_14","ACT","16","14","14","A woman whose name was Lydia was one of those who were listening  to Paul. She was a non-Jewish woman, from Thyatira  city, who bought and sold expensive purple cloth. She had accepted what the Jews believe about God. The Lord  God caused her to pay attention to the message that Paul preached, and she believed it.  The members of her household also heard the good message and believed in Jesus MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_15","074_16_15","ACT","16","15","15","After  Paul and Silas baptized Lydia and the others who lived in her house MTY {After Lydia and the others who lived in her house were baptized}, she invited us to  go and stay in  her home. She said, “You (pl) know that I  now believe in the Lord  Jesus, so  please come and stay in my house.” She persuaded us  to do that, so we(exc) stayed there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_16","074_16_16","ACT","16","16","16","Another day, while we (exc) were going to the place where people regularly gathered to pray, we met a young woman who was a slave. An evil spirit was enabling her to be a ventriloquist and to tell people what would happen  to them. People paid a lot of money to  the men who were her owners, in return for her telling them things that  she said would happen  to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_17","074_16_17","ACT","16","17","17","This young woman followed Paul and the rest of us. She continually shouted, “These men serve the God who is the greatest  of all gods! They are telling you how ◄ God can save you  so that he will not punish you/to be saved►” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_18","074_16_18","ACT","16","18","18","She continued to do that for many days. Finally Paul became irritated. So he turned  toward the young woman and rebuked the evil spirit  that was in her. He said, “By the authority MTY of Jesus Christ, I command you (sg) to come out of this young woman!” Right away the evil spirit left her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_19","074_16_19","ACT","16","19","19","And then her owners realized that she could no longer earn money for them  because she could no longer predict what would happen to people, so they were angry. They grabbed Paul and Silas and forcefully took them to the public square, to  the place where the government authorities and  a lot of other people were gathered. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_20","074_16_20","ACT","16","20","20","The owners  of the young woman brought Paul and Silas to the city officials and told them, “These men are Jews, and they are greatly troubling  the people in MTY our city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_21","074_16_21","ACT","16","21","21","They are teaching that we (inc) should follow customs that our laws do not allow us Romans to consider  to be correct or to obey!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_22","074_16_22","ACT","16","22","22","Many of the crowd joined  those who were accusing Paul and Silas, and started beating them. Then the Roman authorities commanded  soldiers to tear the shirts off Paul and Silas and to beat them  with rods/sticks. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_23","074_16_23","ACT","16","23","23"," So the soldiers beat Paul and Silas vigorously  with rods. After that, they  took them and shoved them into the prison. They told the jailer that he should lock them up securely. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_24","074_16_24","ACT","16","24","24"," Because the officials had  commanded him  to do that, the jailer shoved Paul and Silas into the cell that was farthest inside.  There, he made them sit down on the floor/ground and stretch out their legs. Then he fastened their ankles in grooves between two large wooden beams,  so that Paul and Silas could not move their legs. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_25","074_16_25","ACT","16","25","25","About midnight, Paul and Silas were praying  aloud and praising God by singing hymns. The  other prisoners were listening attentively to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_26","074_16_26","ACT","16","26","26","Suddenly there was a very strong earthquake. It shook the entire jail SYN and its foundation SYN.  The earthquake caused all the doors  of the jail to open suddenly, and  caused all the chains that fastened the prisoners to fall off. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_27","074_16_27","ACT","16","27","27","The jailer woke up and saw that the doors of the jail were open. He thought that the prisoners had escaped. So he pulled out his sword in order to kill himself,  because he knew that the officials would kill him if the prisoners escaped. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_28","074_16_28","ACT","16","28","28","Paul  saw the jailer and shouted to him, “Do not harm yourself! We (exc) prisoners are all here!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_29","074_16_29","ACT","16","29","29","The jailer shouted  to someone to bring torches/lanterns,  and after they brought them, he rushed into the jail and knelt down in front of Paul and Silas.  He was very afraid, so much so that he was trembling/shaking. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_30","074_16_30","ACT","16","30","30","Then he brought Paul and Silas out  of the jail and asked: “Sirs, what do I need to do to be saved  from being punished for my sins?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_31","074_16_31","ACT","16","31","31"," They answered, “Trust in  what the Lord Jesus  has done for you, and you will be saved { God will save you}, and the others who live in MTY your house will  also be saved  if they believe in Jesus.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_32","074_16_32","ACT","16","32","34","Then the jailer took Paul and Silas into his house, washed their wounds, and gave them a meal.  He woke up all the people in his house, and Paul and Silas told all of them the message about the Lord Jesus. They all believed in him. Immediately  after that, the jailer and all his family were baptized {Paul and Silas baptized the jailer and all his family}. They were very happy, because now they all believed in God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_35","074_16_35","ACT","16","35","35","The next morning, the Roman officials commanded  some police officers  to go to the jail to say to the jailer, “ Our bosses say, ‘Let those  two prisoners go  now!’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_36","074_16_36","ACT","16","36","36"," After the officers went and told that to the jailer, he  went and told Paul, “The Roman authorities have sent a message (sg) saying that I should release you (sg) and Silas  from prison. So you  two can leave  the jail now. Now you can go peacefully!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_37","074_16_37","ACT","16","37","37","But Paul said to the police officers, “The authorities  commanded men to beat us in front of a crowd before  those authorities had learned if we (exc) had done anything wrong! Then they  ordered men to shove us into jail!  But that was not legal, because we (exc) are Roman citizens! And now they want RHQ to send us away secretly! We will not accept that! Those  Roman officials must come themselves and  tell us that they are sorry, and take us out  of jail.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_38","074_16_38","ACT","16","38","38","So the police officers  went and told the city authorities  what Paul had said. When those authorities heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were afraid  that someone would report to more important officials what they had done, and as a result they would be punished { those officials would punish them}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_39","074_16_39","ACT","16","39","39","So the city authorities came to Paul and Silas and told them that they were sorry for what they had done to them. The authorities brought them out of the jail, and repeatedly asked them to leave the city  soon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC16_40","074_16_40","ACT","16","40","40","After Paul and Silas left the jail, they went to Lydia’s house. There they met with her and the  other believers. They encouraged the believers  to continue trusting in the Lord Jesus, and then the two apostles left Philippi. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_1","074_17_1","ACT","17","1","1","Paul and Silas traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia  towns and arrived at Thessalonica  city. There was a Jewish meeting place there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_2","074_17_2","ACT","17","2","2","◄On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day► Paul went into the meeting house, as he usually did. For three weeks  he went there on each Jewish day of rest. Referring to the Scriptures  about the Messiah, he spoke to the people who were there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_3","074_17_3","ACT","17","3","3","He explained and showed that  the prophets wrote that the Messiah needed to die and ◄to become alive again/to be raised from the dead  afterwards►. He told them: “This man Jesus, whom I am telling you about, is our Messiah.  He died and became alive again, just like the prophets predicted.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_4","074_17_4","ACT","17","4","4","Some of the Jews  there were persuaded by {believed}  what Paul had said and began to associate with Paul and Silas. There were also many non-Jewish people there who worshipped God and many important women  who also believed the message about Jesus, and they began to associate with Paul and Silas. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_5","074_17_5","ACT","17","5","5","But  some leaders of the Jews there in Thessalonica became jealous  because many people believed what Paul taught. So they went to the public square and persuaded some lazy men  who were loitering there to follow them.  In this way, the leaders of the Jews gathered a crowd and incited them to become noisy and start a riot  against Paul and Silas. Those  Jews and others ran to the house of  a man named Jason.  He was the man who had invited Paul and Silas to stay at his house. They wanted to bring Paul and Silas outside to where the crowd  of people was waiting. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_6","074_17_6","ACT","17","6","6","They discovered that Paul and Silas were not there, but they found Jason  and grabbed him. They dragged him and some of the  other believers to where the city officials/authorities and  many other people were gathered. The men  who had brought Jason shouted, “Those  two men have caused trouble IDM everywhere HYP  they have gone. Now they have come to our city, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_7","074_17_7","ACT","17","7","7","and  this fellow Jason invited them to stay at his house. All the people  of this sect oppose what our Emperor has decreed. They say that another person, whose name is Jesus, is  the real king!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_8","074_17_8","ACT","17","8","8","When the crowd of people  that had gathered and the city authorities heard that, they became very angry and excited. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_9","074_17_9","ACT","17","9","9"," They wanted to put the believers in jail. But instead, the officials made Jason and the other believers pay a fine and told them that they  would give the money back to them if Paul and Silas did not cause any more trouble. Then the authorities let Jason and those other believers go. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_10","074_17_10","ACT","17","10","10"," So that same night, the believers sent Paul and Silas  out of Thessalonica to Berea  town. When Paul and Silas arrived there, they went to the Jewish meeting place,  on a day when people had gathered there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_11","074_17_11","ACT","17","11","11","The  Jews in Thessalonica had not been very willing to listen to God’s message, but the  Jews who lived in Berea were very willing to listen, so they listened very eagerly to the message  about Jesus. Every day they read the Scriptures  for themselves to find out if what Paul said  about the Messiah was true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_12","074_17_12","ACT","17","12","12","As a result, many of the Jewish people believed  in Jesus, and also some of the important non-Jewish women and many non-Jewish men  believed in him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_13","074_17_13","ACT","17","13","13","But then the Jews in Thessalonica heard  people tell them that Paul  was in Berea and that he was preaching the message from God  about Jesus. So they went to Berea and  told people there that what Paul was teaching was not true. Thus, they caused many of those people to get angry  at Paul. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_14","074_17_14","ACT","17","14","14","So  several of the believers  in Berea took Paul to the coast  to go to another province. But Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_15","074_17_15","ACT","17","15","15","When Paul and the other men from Berea  arrived at the coast, they got on a ship and went to Athens  city. Then Paul said  to the men who had come with him, “Tell Silas and Timothy to come to me  here in Athens as soon as they can.” Then those men left Athens and returned to Berea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_16","074_17_16","ACT","17","16","16","In Athens, Paul waited for Silas and Timothy  to arrive. In the meantime, he walked around in the city. He became very distressed/disturbed because he saw that throughout HYP the city there were many idols. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_17","074_17_17","ACT","17","17","17","So he went to the Jewish meeting place and talked  about Jesus with the Jews, and also with the Greeks who had accepted what the Jews believe. He also went to the public square/center every day and talked to the people  whom he met there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_18","074_17_18","ACT","17","18","18","Paul met some teachers who liked to talk about what people should believe.  People called some of them Epicureans and  they called others Stoics. They told Paul  what they believed, and they asked him  what he believed. Then some of them said  to one another, “This ignorant person is just talking nonsense RHQ!” Others said, “ We(exc) think that he is teaching people about ◄foreign gods/ new gods that we (exc) have not heard about►.” They said that because Paul was telling them that Jesus  had died and had become alive again  afterwards. They had not heard that message before. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_19","074_17_19","ACT","17","19","19","So they took Paul to the place where the city council met.  When they arrived there, they said to Paul, “ Please tell us, what is this new message that you (sg) are teaching people? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_20","074_17_20","ACT","17","20","20","You are teaching some things that startle us (exc), so we want to know what they mean.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_21","074_17_21","ACT","17","21","21"," They said that, because the people of Athens and also the people from other regions who lived there continually talked about what was new  to them, or they listened to  others tell what was new. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_22","074_17_22","ACT","17","22","22","Then Paul stood up before the men of the city council and said, “Citizens of Athens, I see that you ◄are very religious/think that it is very important to worship many gods►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_23","074_17_23","ACT","17","23","23","I  say that because, while I was walking along and observing the objects  that represent different gods that you worship, I even saw an altar that had these words  that someone had carved  on it: THIS HONORS THE GOD  THAT WE(exc) DO NOT KNOW. So now I will tell you about  that God whom you worship but you do not know. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_24","074_17_24","ACT","17","24","24","He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Because he rules over all  beings in heaven and  on earth, he does not dwell in shrines that people have made. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_25","074_17_25","ACT","17","25","25","He does not need to have anything made for him by people MTY {to have people MTY make MTY anything for him}, because everything that exists belongs to him. He is the one who causes ◄us (inc)/all people► to live and breathe, and  he gives us all the things  that we(inc) need. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_26","074_17_26","ACT","17","26","26"," In the beginning, God created one couple, and from them God produced all ◄the ethnic groups/the nations► that now live everywhere on the earth. He also decided where each ethnic group of people should live and how long they should live  there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_27","074_17_27","ACT","17","27","27","He wanted people to realize that they need him. Then maybe they would seek him and find him.  God wants us to seek him, although he is  really close LIT to each one of us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_28","074_17_28","ACT","17","28","28","As someone has said, ‘ It is only because he enables us that we (inc) live and move and do  what we do.’ And, as some of your own poets have said, ‘We (inc) are God’s children.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_29","074_17_29","ACT","17","29","29","Therefore, because we are God’s children  and can communicate like God does, we (inc) should not think that he is anything like an image  that people have made of gold or silver or stone  which cannot communicate. Those images are designed and skillfully made {People design and make those images},  but they are not alive. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_30","074_17_30","ACT","17","30","30","During the times when people did not know  what God wanted them to do, he did not  immediately punish  them for what they did. But now God commands all people everywhere to turn away from their evil behavior. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_31","074_17_31","ACT","17","31","31"," He tells us that on a certain day that he has chosen he is going to judge  all of us(inc) people in MTY the world. He has appointed a  certain man to judge  us, and that man will judge each of us fairly/justly. God has shown to all  people that he has appointed that man to judge everyone, because God ◄caused him to become alive again after he had died/raised him from the dead►.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_32","074_17_32","ACT","17","32","32","When the men of the council heard  Paul say that ◄ a man had become alive again after he had died/ someone had been raised from the dead►, some of them laughed scornfully. But others said, “We (exc) would like you (sg) to tell us more about this, some other time.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_33","074_17_33","ACT","17","33","33","After they said that, Paul left the council  meeting. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC17_34","074_17_34","ACT","17","34","34","However, some of the people there went along with Paul and became believers. Among those  who believed in Jesus was a member of the council whose  name was Dionysius. Also, an  important woman whose name was Damaris and some other people  who had heard Paul’s message also believed in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_1","074_18_1","ACT","18","1","1","After that, Paul left Athens  city and went to Corinth  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_2","074_18_2","ACT","18","2","2","There he met a Jew whose name was Aquila, who grew up in Pontus  province. Aquila and his wife Priscilla had recently come from  Rome, in Italy.  They had previously left Rome because Claudius,  the Roman Emperor, had ordered that all the Jews must leave Rome. Paul later went to see Aquila and Priscilla. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_3","074_18_3","ACT","18","3","3","Those two made tents  to earn ◄ money/a living►. Paul also made tents, so he stayed with them, and they all worked together. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_4","074_18_4","ACT","18","4","4","Every Sabbath, Paul  went to the Jewish meeting place, where he spoke forcefully to both Jews and non-Jews. He repeatedly tried to persuade them  that Jesus is the Messiah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_5","074_18_5","ACT","18","5","5","Then Silas and Timothy arrived there from Macedonia province. After they arrived, Paul  did not make tents anymore. He used all his time preaching  the message about Jesus in the Jewish meeting place. He continued to tell the Jews  that the Messiah they had been waiting for was Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_6","074_18_6","ACT","18","6","6","But the Jews began to oppose Paul and to say evil things about him. So he shook  the dust from his clothes  to show them that they were displeasing God. Then he said to them, “If God punishes you, it will be your SYN own fault MTY, not mine! From now on I will go  and preach to non-Jewish people!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_7","074_18_7","ACT","18","7","7","So Paul left  the Jewish meeting place and went into a house that was next to it,  and preached there. Titius Justus, the owner of the house, was a non-Jewish man who had accepted what the Jews believe. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_8","074_18_8","ACT","18","8","8"," After that, the ruler of the Jewish meeting place,  whose name was Crispus, and all of his family MTY believed in the Lord  Jesus. Many other people in Corinth who listened  to Paul also believed  in Jesus. Then they were baptized.  But there were people who still opposed Paul and his preaching. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_9","074_18_9","ACT","18","9","9","One night Paul had a vision in which the Lord  Jesus said to him, “Do not be afraid  of those who oppose you. Instead, you should continue speaking  to people about me. Do not stop, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_10","074_18_10","ACT","18","10","10","because I  will help you, and no one will be able to harm you (sg) here. Keep telling people about me, because there are many in this city who will  believe in me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_11","074_18_11","ACT","18","11","11","So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching people the message from God  about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_12","074_18_12","ACT","18","12","12","When Gallio was the Roman governor of Achaia  province, the Jewish  leaders SYN there got together and seized Paul. They took him before Gallio  and accused him, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_13","074_18_13","ACT","18","13","13","saying, “This man is teaching people  a false religion, leading them to worship God in ways that are contrary to our  Jewish laws.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_14","074_18_14","ACT","18","14","14","When Paul was about to speak MTY  to defend himself, Gallio said to the Jews, “If this man had acted deceitfully or disobeyed  any of our Roman laws, I would listen  patiently to what you Jews  want to tell me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_15","074_18_15","ACT","18","15","15","However, you are merely arguing about words and names and your own  Jewish laws, so you yourselves need to resolve this. I refuse to judge these things!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_16","074_18_16","ACT","18","16","16","After Gallio  had said that, he  commanded some soldiers/guards that  they expel those  Jewish leaders from the courtroom. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_17","074_18_17","ACT","18","17","17","Then  the mob outside grabbed the leader of the Jewish meeting place, Sosthenes  because they considered that he was responsible for those accusations against Paul. They beat him, right there in front of the courthouse. But Gallio did nothing about it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_18","074_18_18","ACT","18","18","18","Paul stayed on with the believers in Corinth for ◄many days/some time►. Then he left the believers there, and went with Priscilla and  her husband Aquila. They went down to Cenchrea,  a port city. There Paul had his head shaved { someone shave his head} in order to partially complete a vow that he had taken. Then they got on a ship and sailed for Syria  province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_19","074_18_19","ACT","18","19","19","They arrived at Ephesus  city, and Priscilla and Aquila stayed there.  Before Paul left Ephesus, he entered the Jewish meeting place and lectured to the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_20","074_18_20","ACT","18","20","20","They asked him to stay longer, but he refused. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_21","074_18_21","ACT","18","21","21","But, as he left, he told them, “I will come back, if God wills/desires  me to do that.” Then,  because he wanted to be in Jerusalem to finish completing his vow, he got on  a ship that sailed from Ephesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_22","074_18_22","ACT","18","22","22","When the ship arrived at Caesarea, Paul  got off. He went up  to Jerusalem and greeted the believers there. Then he went back down to Antioch  city in Syria province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_23","074_18_23","ACT","18","23","23","Paul spent some time  with the believers there. Then he left Antioch and traveled to several towns  that he had visited previously in Galatia and Phrygia  provinces. He taught all of the believers more  of the message from God about Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_24","074_18_24","ACT","18","24","24"," While Paul was traveling in Galatia and Phrygia, a Jewish man whose name was Apollos came to Ephesus. He was a native of Alexandria  city. He  spoke eloquently and he knew the Scriptures thoroughly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_25","074_18_25","ACT","18","25","25"," Other believers had taught him  some things about how the Lord  Jesus desires that people should conduct themselves, and he taught those things very enthusiastically  to people. He had heard about some of the things that Jesus did and said, and he taught those facts accurately  to people. However, he was teaching incompletely about Jesus, because he knew only what John  the Baptizer had taught people whom he baptized. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_26","074_18_26","ACT","18","26","26","Apollos went to the Jewish meeting place, and he told the people there very confidently the things that he had learned. When Priscilla and Aquila heard what Apollos taught, they invited him  to their home. There they explained more accurately to him the way  that God  gives people eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_27","074_18_27","ACT","18","27","27","When Apollos decided that he would like to go to Achaia  province, the believers in Ephesus told him that it would be good for him to do that. So they wrote a letter to the believers  in Achaia saying that they should welcome Apollos.  So Apollos got on a ship to go to Corinth. After he arrived, he greatly helped those whom  God had kindly enabled to believe  in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC18_28","074_18_28","ACT","18","28","28","Apollos was vigorously arguing publicly with  the leaders of the Jews while many other people listened.  By quoting from the Scriptures, he proved to people that Jesus was the Messiah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_1","074_19_1","ACT","19","1","1","While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul  left the places in Phrygia and Galatia provinces where he had been visiting, and traveled through  Asia province back to Ephesus. He met some people  who said that they were believers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_2","074_19_2","ACT","19","2","2","He asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed  God’s message?” They answered, “No, we (exc) did not. We have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_3","074_19_3","ACT","19","3","3","So Paul asked, “So when you were baptized, what  were you showing?” They replied, “ We were showing that we (exc) believed what John  the Baptizer taught.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_4","074_19_4","ACT","19","4","4","Paul said, “John baptized people who turned away from their sinful behavior. He  also told the people to believe in the one who would come after he  had come, and that was Jesus.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_5","074_19_5","ACT","19","5","5","So, when those men heard that, they were baptized  to affirm that they believed MTY in the Lord Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_6","074_19_6","ACT","19","6","6","After that, Paul placed his hands on their heads  one by one, and the  power of the Holy Spirit came upon  each of them. The  Holy Spirit enabled them to speak in various languages MTY  that they had not learned, and they also spoke messages  that the Holy Spirit revealed to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_7","074_19_7","ACT","19","7","7","There were about twelve men  whom Paul baptized and who received the power of the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_8","074_19_8","ACT","19","8","8","For three months after that, Paul entered the Jewish meeting place  in Ephesus on each Sabbath/Jewish day of rest, and he spoke boldly. He convincingly taught  the people about how God wanted to rule MET  their lives. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_9","074_19_9","ACT","19","9","9"," A few of the people in the meeting house believed the message about Jesus. But some of the people would not believe that message and did not want to  continue to hear it. While many people were listening, they said many bad things about the way  for people to receive eternal life about which Paul was preaching. So Paul left them and took the believers with him  to meet in another place. He taught every day in a lecture hall  that a man whose name was Tyrannus lectured in/owned. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_10","074_19_10","ACT","19","10","10","For two years Paul continued to teach people in that building. In this way, most of HYP the Jews and non-Jews who lived in Asia  province heard the message about the Lord  Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_11","074_19_11","ACT","19","11","11","Also, God gave Paul the power MTY to do amazing miracles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_12","074_19_12","ACT","19","12","12"," If those who were sick could not come to Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons that Paul had touched would be taken and placed on the sick people { others would take  and place on the sick people handkerchiefs or aprons that Paul had touched}. As a result, those sick people would become well, and evil spirits that troubled people would leave. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_13","074_19_13","ACT","19","13","13","There were also some Jews who traveled around  to various places,  and they commanded the evil spirits in those places to depart  from people. Certain ones of those Jews once tried to command the evil spirits to come out of people by saying “I command you by the authority MTY of the Lord Jesus, the man about whom Paul preaches, to come out!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_14","074_19_14","ACT","19","14","14","There were seven men who were doing that. They were sons of a man named Sceva, a Jew,  who called himself a chief priest. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_15","074_19_15","ACT","19","15","15","But  one day as they were doing that, the evil spirit  refused to come out of that person. Instead, he said to them, “I know Jesus, and I know  that he has authorized Paul  to expel demons. ◄But no one has authorized you  to do anything to me!/who authorized you  to do anything to me?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_16","074_19_16","ACT","19","16","16"," After saying that, suddenly the man who was controlled by the evil spirit jumped on the seven Jewish men,  one after another, knocked all of them down, and beat each of them severely. He tore off their clothes and wounded them, causing them to bleed. So,  greatly frightened, they all ran out of the house. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_17","074_19_17","ACT","19","17","17","All the people who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and non-Jews, heard what had happened. So they were afraid MTY. They honored the Lord Jesus MTY  because they realized that he was very powerful. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_18","074_19_18","ACT","19","18","18"," At that time, while other believers were listening, many believers confessed the evil things that they had been doing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_19","074_19_19","ACT","19","19","19","Several of those who had  previously practiced sorcery gathered up their scrolls  that told how to work magic and burned them in a public place. When people added up how much those scrolls had cost, they realized that altogether the amount was 50,000 valuable silver coins. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_20","074_19_20","ACT","19","20","20","As a result, many more people heard MTY the message about the Lord  Jesus, and the message powerfully  changed their lives. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_21","074_19_21","ACT","19","21","21","After those things had happened, Paul decided that he wanted to go to Jerusalem, but he decided that  first he would visit  the believers in Macedonia and Achaia  provinces again. Paul said, “After I have been to Jerusalem, I must also go to Rome.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_22","074_19_22","ACT","19","22","22","He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, ahead to Macedonia. But Paul stayed a little longer  in Ephesus city, in Asia  province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_23","074_19_23","ACT","19","23","23"," Soon after that, some of the people there tried to make a lot of LIT trouble for the people who believed the way  God revealed for us(inc) to receive eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_24","074_19_24","ACT","19","24","24","There was a man there whose name was Demetrius who made little images out of silver.  They were models of the temple of  a goddess whose name was Artemis. Demetrius and the other men  who made those little images earned a lot of LIT money  from selling those images. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_25","074_19_25","ACT","19","25","25","Demetrius called a meeting of his workmen and also of others who made the little silver images. He said to them, “Men, you know that we (inc) earn a lot of money doing our kind of work. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_26","074_19_26","ACT","19","26","26","Also, you know that  this fellow Paul has persuaded many people who live in Ephesus  to no longer buy the images that we make. Now even the people from many other towns in our province  no longer want to buy what we make. This fellow tells people that the gods that we have made  and worship are not gods  and that we should not worship them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_27","074_19_27","ACT","19","27","27"," If people continue to listen to him, soon they will ruin our business. Besides, they will no longer think that they should  come to the temple of Artemis  to worship her. People all over our Asia  province and everywhere HYP else worship  our great goddess Artemis. Soon people may no longer consider that Artemis is great!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_28","074_19_28","ACT","19","28","28","All the men there were very angry  at Paul when they heard what Demetrius said. They began to shout, “The goddess Artemis of us Ephesians is very great!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_29","074_19_29","ACT","19","29","29","Many of the other people in the city heard the shouting and went  and joined the crowd. They also became angry at Paul and began shouting.  Several of the people seized Gaius and Aristarchus, two men  from Macedonia who had been traveling with Paul.  Then the whole crowd of people ran, dragging those men along with them, to the city stadium. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_30","074_19_30","ACT","19","30","30","Paul also wanted to go  to the stadium and speak to the people, but the other believers would not let him go there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_31","074_19_31","ACT","19","31","31","Also, some government officials of that province who were friends of Paul  heard what was happening. So they sent someone to tell him  urgently not to go into the stadium. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_32","074_19_32","ACT","19","32","32","The crowd of people  in the stadium continued shouting. Some shouted one thing, and some shouted something else. But most of them did not even know what the meeting was about! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_33","074_19_33","ACT","19","33","33","One of the  Jews there was named Alexander. Some of the Jews pushed him to the front of the stadium,  so that he could speak to the crowd of people. So Alexander motioned with his hands to the crowd,  wanting them to be quiet. He wanted to tell them that  the Jews were not responsible  for the riot. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_34","074_19_34","ACT","19","34","34","But  many of the non-Jewish people knew that Alexander was a Jew.  They also knew that the Jews did not worship the goddess Artemis. So the non-Jews there unitedly  and repeatedly shouted for about two hours, “Great is  the goddess Artemis  whom we(inc) Ephesians  worship!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_35","074_19_35","ACT","19","35","35","Then the city secretary made the crowd stop shouting, and he said to them, “My fellow-citizens, everyone in the world knows RHQ that  we(inc) people who live in Ephesus  city guard the temple  where we worship the great  goddess Artemis. Also,  everyone knows that we(inc) watch over the  sacred image  of our goddess that fell down from heaven! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_36","074_19_36","ACT","19","36","36","Of course everyone knows that, and no one can say that these things are not true. So you should be quiet now. Do not suddenly do anything ◄foolish/that will cause us trouble►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_37","074_19_37","ACT","19","37","37","You  should not have brought these  two men  here, because they have not done anything evil. They have not gone into our temples and taken things  from there. And they have not spoken evil of our goddess. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_38","074_19_38","ACT","19","38","38","Therefore, if Demetrius and his fellow-workmen want to accuse anyone  about anything bad, they should do it in the right way. There are courts  that you can go to when you want to accuse someone, and there are judges  there who have been appointed by the government { whom the government has appointed}. You can accuse  anyone there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_39","074_19_39","ACT","19","39","39","But if you want to ask about something else,  you should ask for  other officials to resolve it when  those officials legally assemble. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_40","074_19_40","ACT","19","40","40"," And this is certainly not a legal meeting! Resolve this legally because, if  we(inc) do not, I am afraid  that the governor will hear about all this noise  that you have made and will say that we (inc) were trying to rebel  against the government. If he would ask me what you were all shouting about, I would not be able to give him an answer.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC19_41","074_19_41","ACT","19","41","41","That is what the city secretary said  to the crowd. Then he told them all to go  home. So they left. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_1","074_20_1","ACT","20","1","1","After the people at Ephesus had stopped rioting, Paul summoned the believers. He encouraged them  to continue to trust in the Lord Jesus. Soon after that, he told them goodbye and left to go to Macedonia  province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_2","074_20_2","ACT","20","2","2"," After he arrived there, he visited  each town where there were believers, and encouraged them. Then he arrived in Greece  province,  which is also called Achaia. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_3","074_20_3","ACT","20","3","3","He stayed there for three months. Then he planned to return to Syria by ship, but  he heard that some of the Jews SYN  in that area were planning to kill him  as he traveled. So he decided instead to go  by land, and he traveled again through Macedonia. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_4","074_20_4","ACT","20","4","4","The men who were going to travel with him  to Jerusalem were Sopater,  who was a son of Pyrrhus, who grew up in Berea  town; Aristarchus and Secundus, who were from Thessalonica  city; Gaius,  who was from Derbe  town; Timothy,  who was from Galatia province; and Tychicus and Trophimus who were from Asia  province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_5","074_20_5","ACT","20","5","5","Those  seven men went ahead of Paul and me, Luke, by ship from Macedonia, so they got to Troas  before we did and waited for  the two of us there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_6","074_20_6","ACT","20","6","6"," But we two(exc) traveled by land as far as Philippi  city. After the Jewish festival  when they eat unleavened bread, we got on a ship  that was going from the port near  Philippi to Troas city. After five days we (exc) arrived at Troas and we met the other men who had traveled there  ahead of us. Then we  all stayed in Troas for seven days. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_7","074_20_7","ACT","20","7","7","◄On Sunday evening/On the evening of the first day of the week►, we (exc) and the other believers there gathered together to celebrate the Lord’s Supper  and to eat other food SYN. Paul spoke to the believers. He continued teaching them until midnight, because he was planning to leave Troas the next day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_8","074_20_8","ACT","20","8","8","Many  oil lamps were burning in the upstairs room in which we (exc) had gathered,  so the fumes caused some people to become sleepy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_9","074_20_9","ACT","20","9","9","A young man whose name was Eutychus was there. He was seated on  the sill of an  open window  on the third story of the house. As Paul continued talking for a long time, Eutychus became sleepier and sleepier. Finally, he was sound/really asleep. He fell  out of the window from the third story down  to the ground. Some of the believers went down immediately and picked him up.  But he was dead. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_10","074_20_10","ACT","20","10","10","Paul  also went down. He lay down and stretched out on top of the young man and put his arms around him. Then he said  to the people who were standing around, “Do not worry, he is alive  again now!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_11","074_20_11","ACT","20","11","11","Then Paul,  along with the others, went upstairs again and they ate the Lord’s Supper and other food SYN. Afterwards, Paul conversed with the believers until dawn. Then he left. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_12","074_20_12","ACT","20","12","12","The  other people took the young man  home, and were greatly encouraged because he was alive  again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_13","074_20_13","ACT","20","13","13","We then went to the ship. Paul did not get on the ship  with us in Troas, because he preferred to go  more quickly overland to Assos  town. The rest of us got on the ship and sailed for Assos. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_14","074_20_14","ACT","20","14","14","We (exc) met Paul in Assos. He got on  the ship with us, and we sailed to Mitylene  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_15","074_20_15","ACT","20","15","15","The day after  we reached Mitylene, we  sailed from there and arrived  at a place near Kios  Island. The day after that, we sailed to Samos  Island. The next day we  left Samos and sailed to Miletus  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_16","074_20_16","ACT","20","16","16","Miletus was just south of Ephesus city. Paul had  earlier decided that he would not get on a ship that would stop at Ephesus, because he did not want to spend  several days in Asia  province. If possible, he wanted to arrive in Jerusalem by the  time of the Pentecost festival,  and the time of that festival was near. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_17","074_20_17","ACT","20","17","17"," When the ship arrived at Miletus, Paul sent  a messenger to Ephesus to ask the elders of the congregation to come to talk with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_18","074_20_18","ACT","20","18","18","When the elders arrived, Paul said to them, “You personally know how I  conducted myself among you the entire time that I was with you, from the first day when I arrived  here in Asia  province until the day I left. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_19","074_20_19","ACT","20","19","19"," You know how I was serving the Lord  Jesus very humbly and how I sometimes wept  about people. You also know how I suffered because the Jews SYN  who were not believers often tried  to harm me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_20","074_20_20","ACT","20","20","20","You also know that, as I preached  God’s message to you, I never left out anything that would help you. You know that I taught you  God’s message when many people were present, and I  also went to your homes and taught it there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_21","074_20_21","ACT","20","21","21","I preached both to Jews and to non-Jews, telling them  all that they must turn away from their sinful behavior.  I also told them they should believe in our Lord Jesus.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_22","074_20_22","ACT","20","22","22","“And now note this: I am going to Jerusalem, because  God’s Spirit has clearly shown me that I must go there. I do not know what will happen to me  while I am there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_23","074_20_23","ACT","20","23","23","But I do know that in each city  where I have stopped, the Holy Spirit has ◄told me/ caused the believers to tell me► that  in Jerusalem people will put me in prison PRS and will cause me to suffer PRS. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_24","074_20_24","ACT","20","24","24","But I do not care even if people kill me, if first I am able to finish the work MET that the Lord Jesus has told me  to do. He appointed me to tell people the good message that God  saves us by doing for us what we do not deserve. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_25","074_20_25","ACT","20","25","25","I have preached to you the message about how God desires to rule  people’s lives. But now I know that today is the last time that you fellow believers will see me SYN. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_26","074_20_26","ACT","20","26","26","So I want you all to understand that if anyone  who has heard me preach dies  without trusting in Jesus, it is not my fault MTY, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_27","074_20_27","ACT","20","27","27","because I told you LIT everything HYP that God has planned for us (inc). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_28","074_20_28","ACT","20","28","28"," You leaders must continue to believe and obey  God’s message. You must also help all the other believers MET for whom the Holy Spirit has caused you to be responsible MTY. Watch over MET yourselves and the other believers  as a shepherd  watches over his sheep. God bought them with the blood  that flowed from his  Son’s body on the cross. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_29","074_20_29","ACT","20","29","29","I know  very well that after I leave,  people who teach MET  false doctrines will come among you and will do great harm to the believers.  They will be like fierce wolves  that kill sheep. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_30","074_20_30","ACT","20","30","30","Even in your own group of believers there will be some who will deceive  other believers by teaching them messages that are false. They will teach those messages so that some people  will believe them and will become their followers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_31","074_20_31","ACT","20","31","31","So watch out  that none of you stops believing the true message about our Lord Jesus. Remember that day and night for  about three years I repeatedly taught you that message, and warned you with tears  in my eyes not to believe any other message.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_32","074_20_32","ACT","20","32","32","“ Now as I leave you, I ask God to protect you and to keep you believing the message  that he saves us(inc) by doing for us what we do not deserve.  If you continue believing the message  that I told you, you will become spiritually mature, and God will give you the blessings that he has promised to give to all of those who belong to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_33","074_20_33","ACT","20","33","33"," As for myself, I have not desired anyone’s money MTY or  fine clothing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_34","074_20_34","ACT","20","34","34","You yourselves know that I have worked  with my hands MTY to earn the money that my companions and I needed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_35","074_20_35","ACT","20","35","35","In everything that I did, I showed you that we (inc) should work hard in order  to have enough money to give some to those who are needy. We (inc) should remember that our Lord Jesus himself said, ‘You are happy when people give you what you need, but God will be happy with you when you give other people what they need.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_36","074_20_36","ACT","20","36","36","When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of the elders and prayed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_37","074_20_37","ACT","20","37","37","They all cried a lot, and they hugged Paul and kissed him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC20_38","074_20_38","ACT","20","38","38","They were especially sad because he had said that they would never see him SYN again. Then they  all went with him to the ship. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_1","074_21_1","ACT","21","1","1"," After we said goodbye to the elders  from Ephesus, we  got on the ship and sailed to Cos  Island, where the ship stopped for the night. The next day we sailed from Cos to Rhodes  Island, where the ship stopped again. The day after that we sailed to Patara  town, where the ship stopped. This was on Patara Island. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_2","074_21_2","ACT","21","2","2"," At Patara we left that ship, and someone told us that there was a ship that would be going to Phoenicia  region. So we got on that ship, and it left. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_3","074_21_3","ACT","21","3","3"," We sailed until we could see Cyprus  Island. We passed to the south of the island and continued sailing until we arrived at Phoenicia region, in Syria  province. We arrived at Tyre  city. The ship was going to stay there several days, because its workers had to unload the cargo. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_4","074_21_4","ACT","21","4","4"," Someone told us where the believers in Tyre lived, so we (exc) went and stayed with them for seven days. Because  God’s Spirit revealed to them ◄ that people would cause Paul to suffer/Paul would suffer►  in Jerusalem, they told Paul that he should not go there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_5","074_21_5","ACT","21","5","5","But when it was time  for the ship to leave again, we  prepared to continue going  to Jerusalem. When we left  Tyre, all the believers, including their wives and children, went with us  to the edge of the sea. We all knelt down there on the sand/shore and prayed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_6","074_21_6","ACT","21","6","6","After we all said goodbye, Paul and we  his companions got on the ship, and the  other believers returned to their own homes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_7","074_21_7","ACT","21","7","7","After we (exc) left Tyre, we continued on  that ship to Ptolemais  city. There were believers there, and we greeted them and stayed with them that night. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_8","074_21_8","ACT","21","8","8","The next day we left Ptolemais and sailed to Caesarea  city, where we stayed in the home of Philip, who  spent his days telling others how to become disciples of Jesus. He was one of the seven  men whom the believers in Jerusalem had chosen to care for the widows. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_9","074_21_9","ACT","21","9","9","He had four daughters who were not married. Each of them frequently spoke messages that the Holy Spirit had revealed to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_10","074_21_10","ACT","21","10","10","After  we(exc) had been in Philip’s house for several days, a believer whose name was Agabus came down from Judea  district and arrived  in Caesarea. He frequently spoke messages that the Holy Spirit had told him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_11","074_21_11","ACT","21","11","11","Coming over to where we were, he took off Paul’s belt. Then he tied his own feet and hands with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘The Jewish  leaders SYN in Jerusalem will tie up  the hands and feet of the owner of this belt, like this, and they will hand him over to non-Jewish people  as a prisoner.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_12","074_21_12","ACT","21","12","12","When  the rest of us heard that, we and  other believers there repeatedly pled with Paul, “Please do not go up to Jerusalem!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_13","074_21_13","ACT","21","13","13","But Paul replied, “◄Please stop crying and trying to discourage me IDM  from going!/Why are you crying and trying to discourage me IDM  from going?► RHQ I am willing to be put { for people to put me} in prison and also to be killed { for them to kill me} in Jerusalem because I  serve MTY the Lord Jesus.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_14","074_21_14","ACT","21","14","14","When  we(exc) realized that he was determined  to go to Jerusalem, we did not try  any longer to persuade him  not to go. We said, “May ◄the Lord  God do what he wants/the Lord’s will be done►!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_15","074_21_15","ACT","21","15","15","After those days  in Caesarea, we (exc) prepared  our things and  left to go  by land up to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_16","074_21_16","ACT","21","16","16","Some of the believers from Caesarea also went with us.  On the way to Jerusalem, we stayed  one night in the house of  a man whose name was Mnason. He was from Cyprus  Island, and he had believed  in Jesus when people were first beginning to hear the message  about him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_17","074_21_17","ACT","21","17","17","When we arrived in Jerusalem,  a group of the believers greeted us happily. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_18","074_21_18","ACT","21","18","18","The next day Paul and the rest of us went to speak with James,  who was the leader of the congregation there. All of the  other leaders/elders  of the congregation in Jerusalem were also there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_19","074_21_19","ACT","21","19","19","Paul greeted them, and then he reported all of the things that God had enabled him to do among the non-Jewish people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_20","074_21_20","ACT","21","20","20","When they heard that, James and the other elders said, “Praise the Lord!” Then  one of them said to Paul, “Brother/Friend, you (sg) know that there are very many thousands of us (inc) Jewish people  here who have believed  in the Lord Jesus. Also, you know that we (inc) all continue very carefully to obey the laws  that Moses gave us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_21","074_21_21","ACT","21","21","21"," But our fellow Jewish believers have been told {have heard  people say} that when you are among non-Jews, you tell the Jewish believers who live there that they should stop obeying  the laws MTY ◄ of Moses/ that Moses  received from God►.  People say that you tell  those Jewish believers not to circumcise their sons and not to practice our  other customs.  We(exc) do not believe that this is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_22","074_21_22","ACT","21","22","22","But our fellow  Jewish believers will certainly hear that you have arrived,  and they will be angry with you. So  you need to do something RHQ  to show them that what they heard about you is not true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_23","074_21_23","ACT","21","23","23","So you should do what we suggest to you. There are four men among us who have strongly promised  to God about  something. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_24","074_21_24","ACT","21","24","24","Go with these men  to the Temple and ritually purify yourself along with them. Then,  when it is time for them to offer the sacrifices for that ritual, pay for what they offer  as sacrifices. After that, they can shave their heads  to show that they have done what they promised to do. And when people see you in the courts of the Temple with those men, they will know that what they have been told {what people have told them} about you is not true. Instead, all of them will know that you obey all our Jewish laws  and rituals. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_25","074_21_25","ACT","21","25","25","As for the non-Jewish believers,  we elders here in Jerusalem have talked about  which of our laws they  should obey, and we (exc) wrote them  a letter, telling them what we decided.  We wrote that they should not eat meat that people have offered as a sacrifice to any idol,  that they should not eat blood  from animals, and that  they should not eat meat from animals  that people have killed by strangling  them. We also told them that they should not have sex with someone to whom they are not married.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_26","074_21_26","ACT","21","26","26","So Paul  agreed to do what they asked, and the next day he took the  four men, and together they ritually purified themselves. After that, Paul went to the Temple  courts and told  the priest what day they would  finish purifying themselves ritually and when  they would offer  the animals as sacrifices for each of them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_27","074_21_27","ACT","21","27","29","When the seven days  for purifying themselves were nearly finished, Paul  returned to the Temple  courtyard. Some Jews from Asia  province saw him there,  and they were very angry at him. On another day they had seen Paul  walking around in Jerusalem with Trophimus, who was a non-Jew. Their laws did not permit non-Jews to be in the Temple, and they thought that Paul had brought Trophimus into the Temple  courtyard that day. So they called out to many other Jews  who were in the Temple courtyard to  help them seize MTY Paul. They shouted, “Fellow Israelites, come and help  us punish this man! This is the one who is  constantly teaching people wherever  he goes that they should despise the  Jewish people.  He teaches people that they should no longer obey the laws  of Moses nor respect this holy  Temple. He has even brought non-Jews here into  the court of our Temple, causing God to consider it no longer holy!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_30","074_21_30","ACT","21","30","30"," People throughout MTY the city heard that there was trouble  at the Temple courtyard, and they came running there. They grabbed Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple  area. The gates  to the Temple courtyard were shut { The Temple guards shut the doors  to the Temple courts} immediately,  so that the people would not riot inside the Temple area. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_31","074_21_31","ACT","21","31","31","While they were trying to kill Paul, someone  ran to the fort near the Temple and told the Roman commander that many HYP people MTY in Jerusalem were rioting  at the Temple. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_32","074_21_32","ACT","21","32","32","The commander quickly took some officers and  a large group of soldiers and ran to  the Temple area where the crowd was. When the crowd of people  who were yelling and beating Paul saw the commander and the soldiers  coming, they stopped beating him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_33","074_21_33","ACT","21","33","33","The commander came to  where Paul was and seized him. He  commanded soldiers to fasten a chain to  each of Paul’s  arms. Then he asked  the people in the crowd, “Who is this man, and what has he done?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_34","074_21_34","ACT","21","34","34","Some of the many people there were shouting one thing,  and some were shouting something else. Because they continued shouting so loudly, the commander could not understand  what they were shouting. So he  commanded that Paul be taken { the soldiers to take Paul} into the barracks  so that he could question him there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_35","074_21_35","ACT","21","35","35"," The soldiers led Paul to the steps  of the barracks, but many people continued to follow them, trying to kill  Paul. So the commander told the soldiers to carry Paul  up the steps into the barracks. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_36","074_21_36","ACT","21","36","36","The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Kill him! Kill him!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_37","074_21_37","ACT","21","37","37","As Paul was about to be taken { the soldiers were about to take Paul} into the barracks, he said  in Greek to the commander, “May I speak to you?” The commander said, “◄I am surprised that you can speak the Greek  language!/Can you (sg) speak the Greek  language?►” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_38","074_21_38","ACT","21","38","38","“◄I  thought that you (sg) were that fellow/Are you not that fellow► from Egypt RHQ who wanted to rebel  against the government not long ago, and who took 4,000 violent terrorists  with him out into the desert,  so that we could not catch him?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_39","074_21_39","ACT","21","39","39","Paul answered, “ No, I am not! I am a Jew. I  was born in Tarsus, which is an important LIT city in Cilicia  province. I ask that you (sg) let me speak to the people.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC21_40","074_21_40","ACT","21","40","40","Then the commander permitted Paul  to speak. So Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand  for the crowd to be quiet. And after the people in the crowd became quiet, Paul spoke to them in  their own Hebrew language MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_1","074_22_1","ACT","22","1","1","Paul said, “ Jewish elders and my other fellow Jews, listen to me now while I reply to  those who are accusing me!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_2","074_22_2","ACT","22","2","2","When the crowd of people heard Paul speaking to them in  their own Hebrew language, they became even more quiet and really listened. Then Paul said to them, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_3","074_22_3","ACT","22","3","3","“I am a Jew,  as are all of you. I was born in Tarsus  city, in Cilicia  province, but I grew up here in Jerusalem.  When I was young, for many years I studied the laws  that Moses gave to our ancestors. I was taught by  the famous teacher Gamaliel MTY { The famous teacher Gamaliel taught MTY me}.  I have carefully  obeyed those laws, because I have wanted to obey God. I  am sure that many of you also carefully obey  those laws. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_4","074_22_4","ACT","22","4","4"," That is why I previously persecuted those who believe the message  that people call the Way  that Jesus taught. I continually looked for ways to kill  them. Whenever I found men or women  who believed that message, I  commanded that they should be seized and thrown { people to seize them and throw them} into jail. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_5","074_22_5","ACT","22","5","5","The suprrme priest knows this, and so do the  other respected men who belong to our Jewish Council. They gave me letters to  take to their fellow Jews in Damascus  city. By means of those letters, they authorized me to go to there and find people who believed in  Jesus. They had written in the letters that I was to bring those people as prisoners to Jerusalem, so that they would be punished here { the leaders here could punish them}.  So I went on my way to Damascus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_6","074_22_6","ACT","22","6","6","About noon, my companions and I were getting near Damascus. Suddenly a bright light from the sky flashed all around me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_7","074_22_7","ACT","22","7","7"," The light was so bright that I fell to the ground. Then I heard the voice  of someone speaking to me  from up in the sky. The one who was speaking to me said, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you (sg) do things to harm me?’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_8","074_22_8","ACT","22","8","8","I answered, ‘Who are you?’ He replied, ‘I am Jesus from Nazareth. I  am the one whom you (sg) are harming  by doing things to harm my followers.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_9","074_22_9","ACT","22","9","9","The men who were  traveling with me saw the  very bright light,  and they heard a voice, but they did not understand what the voice said to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_10","074_22_10","ACT","22","10","10","Then I asked, ‘Lord, what  do you want me to do?’ The Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus!  A man there will tell you (sg) all that I have planned for you to do.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_11","074_22_11","ACT","22","11","11"," After that, I could not see, because the  very bright light had caused me to become blind. So my companions took me by the hand and led me until  we(exc) arrived in Damascus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_12","074_22_12","ACT","22","12","12"," A couple of days later, a man whose name was Ananias came to  see me. He was a man who  greatly respected God and carefully obeyed  our Jewish laws. All the Jews living in Damascus said good things about him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_13","074_22_13","ACT","22","13","13","He came and stood beside me and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, see  again!’ Instantly I could see! I saw Ananias  standing there beside me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_14","074_22_14","ACT","22","14","14","Then he said: ‘The God whom  we(inc) worship and whom our ancestors  worshipped has chosen you and will show you what he wants  you to do. He has allowed you to see the righteous one,  the Messiah, and you have heard him speaking  to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_15","074_22_15","ACT","22","15","15","He wants you to tell people everywhere what you have seen and heard  from him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_16","074_22_16","ACT","22","16","16","So now ◄do not delay!/why delay?► RHQ Stand up, let  me baptize you, and by praying to the Lord  Jesus ask God to forgive you (sg) for your sins!’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_17","074_22_17","ACT","22","17","17","“Later, I returned to Jerusalem.  One day I went to the Temple courtyard. While I was praying there, I saw a vision  in which ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_18","074_22_18","ACT","22","18","18","I saw the Lord speaking to me. He said to me, ‘ Do not stay here! Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people  here will not ◄believe/listen to► what you (sg) tell  them about me!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_19","074_22_19","ACT","22","19","19","But I  protested and said to him, ‘Lord, they know that I went to many of our meeting houses looking for people who believe in you. I was putting in jail those  whom I found who believed in you, and I was even beating them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_20","074_22_20","ACT","22","20","20"," They remember that when Stephen was killed MTY {when people killed MTY Stephen} because he told people about you, I stood there  watching it all and approving  what they were doing. I  even guarded the outer garments that those who were murdering him  had thrown aside. So if I stay here, the fact that I have changed how I think about you will surely impress those leaders of our people.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_21","074_22_21","ACT","22","21","21","But the Lord said to me, ‘No,  do not stay here! Leave  Jerusalem, because I am going to send you (sg) far away  from here to non-Jewish people!’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_22","074_22_22","ACT","22","22","22","The people listened  quietly to what Paul was saying until  he mentioned the Lord sending him to non-Jewish people. Then they began shouting  angrily, “Kill him!  He does not deserve to live any longer!”  They said that because they could not believe that God would save anyone except Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_23","074_22_23","ACT","22","23","23","While they continued shouting, “Kill him!” they took off their cloaks and threw dust into the air,  which showed how angry they were. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_24","074_22_24","ACT","22","24","24","So the commander  commanded that Paul be taken { soldiers to take Paul} into the barracks. He told  the soldiers that they should strike Paul with a whip  that had pieces of bone/metal on the end of it, in order to make him tell what he had done that made the Jews shout so angrily.  So the soldiers took Paul into the barracks. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_25","074_22_25","ACT","22","25","25","Then they stretched his arms out  and tied them so that they could whip him  on his back. But Paul said to the officer who was standing nearby  watching, “ You(sg) should think carefully about this! You will certainly be RHQ acting unlawfully if you whip me, a Roman  citizen whom no  one has put on trial and condemned!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_26","074_22_26","ACT","22","26","26","When the officer heard that, he went to the commander and reported it to him. He said  to the commander, “This man is a Roman  citizen ◄Surely you would not  command us to whip him!/Do you really want  us to whip him?► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_27","074_22_27","ACT","22","27","27","The commander  was surprised when he heard that. He himself went  into the barracks and said to Paul, “Tell me, are you (sg) really a Roman  citizen?” Paul answered, “Yes, I  am.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_28","074_22_28","ACT","22","28","28","Then the commander said, “ I am also a Roman citizen. I paid a lot of money to become a Roman citizen.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman citizen,  so I did not need to pay anything.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_29","074_22_29","ACT","22","29","29","The soldiers  were about to whip Paul and to ask him questions about what he had done. But when they heard what Paul said, they left him immediately. The commander also became afraid, because he realized that Paul was a Roman  citizen and that he had illegally commanded soldiers to tie up Paul’s  hands. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC22_30","074_22_30","ACT","22","30","30"," The commander still wanted to know exactly why the Jews were accusing Paul. So the next day he  told the soldiers to take the chains off Paul. He also summoned the chief priests and the  other Jewish Council  members. Then he took Paul  to where the Council was meeting and  commanded him to stand before them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_1","074_23_1","ACT","23","1","1","Paul looked straight at the Jewish council members and said: “My fellow Jews, all my life I have lived respecting our God, and I do not know of anything that I have done that I knew was wrong/evil.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_2","074_23_2","ACT","23","2","2","When Ananias the supreme priest  heard what Paul said, he commanded the men who were standing near Paul to hit him on the mouth. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_3","074_23_3","ACT","23","3","3","Then Paul said to Ananias, “God will punish you (sg) for that, you hypocrite MET! You sit there and judge me, using the laws that  God gave Moses. But you  yourself disobey those laws, because you commanded me to be struck { these men to strike me}  without having proved that I have done anything that is wrong!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_4","074_23_4","ACT","23","4","4","The men who were standing near Paul  rebuked him. They said, “Are not you (sg) afraid to insult God’s  servant, our supreme priest?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_5","074_23_5","ACT","23","5","5","Paul replied, “My fellow Jews, I  am sorry that I said that. I did not know that the man  who told one of you to hit me is the high priest.  If I had known that, I would not have insulted our supreme priest, because I  know that it is written { that Moses wrote}  in our Jewish law, ‘Do not speak evil of any of your rulers!’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_6","074_23_6","ACT","23","6","6","Paul realized that some of the  Council members were Sadducees and others were Pharisees. So,  in order to cause the Pharisees and Sadducees to argue among themselves instead of accusing him, he called out loudly in the Council  hall, “My fellow Jews, I am a Pharisee, like my father was. I have been put { You have put me} on trial  here because I confidently expect that  some day God will ◄cause people who have died to become alive again/raise people from the dead►.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_7","074_23_7","ACT","23","7","7","When he said that, the Pharisees and Sadducees started to argue with one another  about whether people who have died will become alive again or not. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_8","074_23_8","ACT","23","8","8","The Sadducees believe that after people die, they will not become alive again. They also believe that there are no angels and no  other kinds of spirits. But the Pharisees believe  that all people who have died will one day become alive again. They also believe that there are  angels and other kinds of spirits. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_9","074_23_9","ACT","23","9","9","So the Council members ◄were divided/did not agree with each other►, and they began shouting at one another  as they argued. Some of the teachers of the laws that  God gave Moses who were Pharisees stood up. One of them said, “We (exc) think that this man has done nothing wrong.” Another said, “Maybe an angel or some  other spirit  really spoke to him  and what he says is true.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_10","074_23_10","ACT","23","10","10","Then the Pharisees and Sadducees argued even more loudly  with one another. As a result, the commander ◄was afraid/thought► that they would tear Paul to pieces. So he  commanded soldiers to go down  from the barracks and forcefully take Paul away from the Council members and bring him up into the barracks.  So the soldiers did that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_11","074_23_11","ACT","23","11","11","That night,  in a vision Paul saw the Lord  Jesus come and stand near him. The Lord said  to him, “Be courageous! You (sg) have told people  here in Jerusalem about me, and you must tell people in Rome  about me, too.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_12","074_23_12","ACT","23","12","12","The next morning  some of the Jews MTY  who hated Paul met secretly and talked  about how they could kill him. They promised  themselves that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed him. They asked God to curse them  if they did not do what they promised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_13","074_23_13","ACT","23","13","13","There were more than 40 men who planned to do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_14","074_23_14","ACT","23","14","14","They went to the chief priests and  Jewish elders and told them, “God has heard us promise/vow that we (exc) will not eat  or drink anything until we (exc) have killed Paul. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_15","074_23_15","ACT","23","15","15","So  we request that you go to the commander and ask him, on behalf of the whole Jewish Council, to bring Paul down to us  from the barracks. Tell the commander that you want to question Paul some more. But we (exc) will be waiting to kill Paul while he is on the way here.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_16","074_23_16","ACT","23","16","16","But the son of Paul’s sister heard what they were planning to do, so he went into the barracks and told Paul. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_17","074_23_17","ACT","23","17","17"," When Paul heard that, he called one of the officers and said to him, “ Please take this young man to the commander, because he needs to tell him something  important.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_18","074_23_18","ACT","23","18","18","So the officer took Paul’s nephew to the commander. The officer said to the commander, “That prisoner, Paul, called me and said, ‘Please take this young man to the commander, because he needs to tell him something  important.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_19","074_23_19","ACT","23","19","19","The commander took the young man by the hand, led him off by himself, and asked him, “What do you (sg) need to tell me?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_20","074_23_20","ACT","23","20","20","The young man said, “ There are some SYN Jews who have planned to ask you (sg) to bring Paul before their Council tomorrow. They will say that they want to ask him some more questions.  But that is not true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_21","074_23_21","ACT","23","21","21","Do not do what they ask you (sg) to do, because there are more than 40  Jewish men who will be hiding and waiting  to attack Paul when he passes by on the way to the Council. They even promised/vowed to God that they will not eat or drink anything until they have killed Paul. They are ready  to do it, and right now they are waiting for you (sg) to agree  to do what they are asking you to do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_22","074_23_22","ACT","23","22","22","The commander said to Paul’s young nephew, “Do not tell anyone that you (sg) have told me  about their plan.” Then he sent the young man away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_23","074_23_23","ACT","23","23","23","Then the commander called two of his officers and told them, “Get a group of 200 soldiers ready  to travel. Take along 70 soldiers riding horses, and 200 other soldiers carrying spears.  All of you must be ready to leave at nine o’clock tonight, to go  down to Caesarea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_24","074_23_24","ACT","23","24","24","And take along horses for Paul  and those accompanying him to ride, and safely escort him to  the palace of Governor Felix.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_25","074_23_25","ACT","23","25","25","Then the commander wrote a letter  to send to the governor. This is what he wrote: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_26","074_23_26","ACT","23","26","26","“ I am Claudius Lysias  writing to you. You, Felix, are our governor whom we (exc) respect,  and I sincerely send you my greetings. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_27","074_23_27","ACT","23","27","27","I  have sent you(sg) this man,  Paul, because certain Jews seized him and were about to kill him. But I heard  someone tell me that he is a Roman citizen, so I and my soldiers went and rescued him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_28","074_23_28","ACT","23","28","28","I wanted to know what those Jews were saying that he had done wrong, so I took him to their Jewish Council. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_29","074_23_29","ACT","23","29","29","I listened  while they asked this man questions and he answered them. The things  they accused him about were entirely concerned with their  Jewish laws. But Paul has not disobeyed any of our Roman laws.  So our officials should not execute him or  even put him in prison MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_30","074_23_30","ACT","23","30","30"," Someone told me that some SYN Jews were secretly planning to kill this man, so I immediately am sending him to you,  so that you(sg) may give him a fair trial there. I have also  commanded the Jews who have accused him to  go there to Caesarea and tell you (sg) what they are accusing him about.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_31","074_23_31","ACT","23","31","31","So the soldiers did what  the commander commanded them,  taking this letter with them. They  got Paul and took him with them during the night  down to Antipatris  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_32","074_23_32","ACT","23","32","32","The next day, the foot soldiers returned to the barracks  in Jerusalem, and the soldiers who rode horses went on with Paul. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_33","074_23_33","ACT","23","33","33","When the men escorting Paul arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor, and they delivered Paul to the governor.  Then the horsemen returned to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_34","074_23_34","ACT","23","34","34","The governor read the letter, and then he said to Paul, “What province are you (sg) from?”  Paul answered, “I am from Cilicia  province.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC23_35","074_23_35","ACT","23","35","35","Then the governor said, “When the people who have accused you (sg) arrive, I will listen  to what each of you says and then I will judge your case.” Then he  commanded that Paul be guarded { soldiers to guard Paul} in the palace that King Herod  the Great had built. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_1","074_24_1","ACT","24","1","1","Five days later Ananias the high priest,  having heard that Paul was now in Caesarea, went down  there from Jerusalem, along with some  other Jewish elders and a lawyer  whose name was Tertullus. There they formally told the governor what Paul had done  that they considered wrong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_2","074_24_2","ACT","24","2","2"," The governor commanded Paul to be brought { a soldier to bring Paul} in.  When Paul arrived, Tertullus began to accuse him. He said  to the governor, “Honorable Governor Felix, during the many years that you (sg) have ruled us, we (exc) have lived well/peacefully. By planning wisely, you have improved many things in this province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_3","074_24_3","ACT","24","3","3"," Therefore, sir, we (exc) always gratefully acknowledge everything that  you have done for all  of us, wherever  you have done those things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_4","074_24_4","ACT","24","4","4","But, so that I will not take up too much of your time, I earnestly request that you kindly listen to me very briefly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_5","074_24_5","ACT","24","5","5","We (exc) have observed that this man,  wherever he goes, causes trouble.  Specifically, he causes all the Jews everywhere HYP to riot.  Also, he leads the entire group  whom people call ‘the followers of the Nazarene’, a  false sect. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_6","074_24_6","ACT","24","6","6","He even tried to do things in the Temple  in Jerusalem that would ◄defile it/make it unholy►. So we (exc) seized him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_7","074_24_7","ACT","24","7","7","But Lysias, the commander at the Roman fort, came with his soldiers and forcefully took him away from us SYN. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_8","074_24_8","ACT","24","8","8","Lysias also commanded Paul’s accusers to come here and accuse Paul before you. If you question him yourself, you will be able to learn that all these things about which we are accusing him are true.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_9","074_24_9","ACT","24","9","9","When the Jewish  leaders who were listening heard that, they told  the governor that what Tertullus had said was true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_10","074_24_10","ACT","24","10","10","Then the governor motioned with  his hand to Paul that he should speak. So Paul replied. He said, “ Governor Felix, I know that you(sg) have judged this Jewish province for many years. Therefore I gladly defend myself, confident  that you will listen to me and will judge me fairly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_11","074_24_11","ACT","24","11","11","You (sg) can  easily ascertain that ◄it has not been more than twelve days since/only twelve days ago► I went up went up to Jerusalem to worship  God. That is not enough time to cause a lot of trouble. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_12","074_24_12","ACT","24","12","12","No one  can claim legitimately that they saw me arguing with anyone at the Temple courts  because I did not do that. No one can claim legitimately that they saw me causing people to riot in  any Jewish meeting place, or causing trouble anywhere  else in  Jerusalem city,  because I did not do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_13","074_24_13","ACT","24","13","13","So they cannot prove to you the things about which they are now accusing me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_14","074_24_14","ACT","24","14","14","But I admit to you (sg) that this is true: I do worship the God that our ancestors  worshipped. It is true that I follow the way that  Jesus taught us. The Jewish leaders call that a false religion/teaching. I also believe everything that was written  by Moses {that  Moses wrote} in the laws that  God gave him, and everything that was written by the  other prophets {that the  other prophets wrote}  in their books MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_15","074_24_15","ACT","24","15","15","I confidently expect, just like  some of these men also expect, that  some day God will cause everyone who has died to become alive again. He will ◄cause to become alive again/raise from the dead► both those who were righteous and those who were wicked. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_16","074_24_16","ACT","24","16","16"," Because I am confidently waiting for that day, I always try to do what pleases God and what other people think is right. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_17","074_24_17","ACT","24","17","17","After I  had been in other places for several years, I returned to Jerusalem. I went there to deliver some money to my fellow Jews  who are poor, and to offer sacrifices  to God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_18","074_24_18","ACT","24","18","18","Some  Jews saw me in the temple  courts after I had completed the ritual by which a person is made {that makes a person} pure. There was no crowd with me, and I was not causing  people to riot. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_19","074_24_19","ACT","24","19","19","But it was some  other Jews  who had come from Asia  province who really caused people to riot. They should be here in front of you (sg) to accuse me, if they thought that I  did something  wrong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_20","074_24_20","ACT","24","20","20"," But if they do not  want to do that (OR,  But because they are  not here), these  Jewish men who are here should tell you (sg) what  they think I did that was wrong, when I  defended myself before their Council. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_21","074_24_21","ACT","24","21","21"," They might say that one thing that I shouted as I stood before them  was wrong. What I said was, ‘You are judging me today because I believe that  God will ◄cause  all people who have died to become alive again/raise  all people from the dead►.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_22","074_24_22","ACT","24","22","22","Felix already knew quite a lot about  what people called ‘the way  of Jesus’. But he did not let Paul or his accusers continue to speak.  Instead, he said  to them, “ Later, when Commander Lysias comes down here, I will decide these matters that concern you all.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_23","074_24_23","ACT","24","23","23","Then he told the officer  who was guarding Paul to  take Paul back to the prison and make sure that he was guarded all the time. But he said that Paul was not to be chained {that the officer was not to fasten chains on him}, and if his friends came to visit him,  the officer should allow them to help Paul  in any way that they wished. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_24","074_24_24","ACT","24","24","24","Several days later Felix and his wife Drusilla, who was a Jew, came  back to Caesarea after having been away for a few days. Felix  commanded Paul to be brought in { a soldier to bring Paul in}. Then Felix listened to what Paul  said to him. Paul spoke about what  Christians believe about the Messiah Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_25","074_24_25","ACT","24","25","25","Paul explained  to them about what God requires people to do in order to please him.  He also explained about God requiring people to control how they act.  Paul also told him that there will be a time when God will judge  people. Felix became alarmed  after hearing those things. So he said to Paul, “That is all I  want to hear now. When there is a time that is convenient I will ask you (sg) to come  to me again.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_26","074_24_26","ACT","24","26","26","Felix said that because he hoped that Paul would give him some money  to allow Paul to get out of prison. So he repeatedly sent for Paul to come, and Paul  repeatedly went and talked with him.  But he did not  give Felix any money, and Felix did not command his soldiers to release Paul from prison. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC24_27","074_24_27","ACT","24","27","27","Felix let Paul remain in prison, because he wanted to please the Jewish  leaders and he knew that they did not want him to release Paul. But when two years had passed, Porcius Festus became governor in place of Felix. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_1","074_25_1","ACT","25","1","1","Festus,  who was now the governor of the province, arrived in Caesarea, and three days later he went up to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_2","074_25_2","ACT","25","2","2","In Jerusalem, the chief priests and  other Jewish leaders formally told Festus about  the things that they said that Paul  had done that were wrong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_3","074_25_3","ACT","25","3","3","They urgently asked Festus to do something for them.  They asked him to command soldiers to bring Paul to Jerusalem,  so that Festus could put him on trial there. But they were planning that some  of them would hide  near the road and wait  for Paul and kill him when he was traveling  to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_4","074_25_4","ACT","25","4","4","But Festus replied, “Paul is in Caesarea, and is being guarded { soldiers are guarding him}  there. I myself will go down to Caesarea in a few days. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_5","074_25_5","ACT","25","5","5","Choose some of your leaders to go there with me.  While they are there, they can accuse Paul of the wrong things that you say that he has done.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_6","074_25_6","ACT","25","6","6","After Festus had been  in Jerusalem eight or ten days, he went back down to Caesarea.  Several of the Jewish leaders also went there. The next day Festus  commanded that Paul be brought {someone to bring Paul} to him  in the assembly hall so that he could judge him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_7","074_25_7","ACT","25","7","7"," After Paul was brought to  the assembly hall, the Jewish  leaders from Jerusalem gathered around him  to accuse him. They told Festus that Paul had committed many crimes. But they could not prove  that Paul had done the things about which they accused him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_8","074_25_8","ACT","25","8","8","Then Paul  spoke to defend himself. He said to Festus, “I have done nothing wrong against the laws of us (exc) Jews, and I have not disobeyed the rules concerning our Temple. I have also done nothing wrong against your government MTY.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_9","074_25_9","ACT","25","9","9","But Festus wanted to please the Jewish  leaders, so he asked Paul, “Are you (sg) willing to go up to Jerusalem so that I can listen as these men accuse you  there?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_10","074_25_10","ACT","25","10","10","But Paul  did not want to do that. So he said  to Festus, “ No, I  am not willing to go to Jerusalem! I am  now standing before you, and you (sg) are the judge  whom the Roman Emperor MTY  has authorized. This is the place where I should be judged {where you should judge me}. I have not wronged the Jewish people  at all, as you know very well. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_11","074_25_11","ACT","25","11","11","If I had done something bad  for which I should be executed { concerning which the law said that they should execute me}, I would not plead  with them that they not kill me. But none of these things about which they accuse me is  true, so no one can legally surrender me to  these Jews. So I formally request that the emperor MTY  should judge me at Rome.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_12","074_25_12","ACT","25","12","12","Then after Festus conferred with the  men who regularly advised him, he replied to Paul, “You (sg) have formally requested  that I should send you to the emperor  in Rome. So I will arrange for you to go there  in order that he can judge you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_13","074_25_13","ACT","25","13","13","After several days, King Herod Agrippa arrived at Caesarea, along with  his younger sister Bernice. They had come to formally welcome Festus  as the new Governor of the province. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_14","074_25_14","ACT","25","14","14","King Agrippa and Bernice stayed many days in Caesarea. While  they were there, Festus told Agrippa about Paul. He said to the king, “There is a man here whom Felix kept in prison  while he was governor. He left him  there when his time as governor ended. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_15","074_25_15","ACT","25","15","15","When I went to Jerusalem, the chief priests and  the other Jewish elders told me that this man had done many things  against their laws. They asked me to condemn him  to be executed {judge him  so that people could kill him}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_16","074_25_16","ACT","25","16","16","But I told them that when someone has been accused  of a crime, we Romans do not immediately ◄condemn that person/declare that person to be guilty►. First, we  command him to stand before the people who are accusing him and to say whether or not he has done those things.  After that, the judge will decide what to do with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_17","074_25_17","ACT","25","17","17","So those Jews came  here to Caesarea when I came. I did not delay. The day after  we(exc) arrived, after I sat down at the place where I make decisions, I  commanded that Paul be brought { soldiers to bring Paul} into  the courtroom. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_18","074_25_18","ACT","25","18","18","The Jewish leaders did accuse him, but the things about which they accused him were not any of the  evil crimes about which I thought  they would accuse him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_19","074_25_19","ACT","25","19","19","Instead, what they argued about with him were some teachings that  some Jews believe  and others do not believe. They argued about a man whose name was Jesus who had died,  but the man they were accusing, whose name is Paul, kept saying, ‘Jesus is alive again.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_20","074_25_20","ACT","25","20","20","I did not know what questions to ask  them, and I did not know how to judge concerning their dispute. So I asked Paul, ‘Are you (sg) willing to go  back to Jerusalem and have the dispute  between you and these Jews judged there {and  let me judge there the dispute  between you and these Jews}?’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_21","074_25_21","ACT","25","21","21","But Paul answered, ‘ No. I  am not willing to go to Jerusalem! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_22","074_25_22","ACT","25","22","22","Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_23","074_25_23","ACT","25","23","23","The next day Agrippa and Bernice came very ceremoniously to the assembly hall. Some Roman commanders and prominent men in Caesarea came with them. Then, Festus told an officer to bring Paul. So after the officer  went to the prison and brought him, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_24","074_25_24","ACT","25","24","24","Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all  the rest of you who are here, you see this man. Many HYP Jews in Jerusalem and also those here  in Caesarea appealed to me, screaming that we (exc) should not let him live any longer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_25","074_25_25","ACT","25","25","25","But  when I asked them to tell me what he had done, and they told me, I found out that he had not done anything for which he should be executed { anyone should execute him}. However, he has asked that our emperor  should judge his case, so I have decided to send him to Rome. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_26","074_25_26","ACT","25","26","26","But I do not know what specifically I should write to the emperor concerning him. That is why I have brought him here. I  want you all  to hear him speak, and I especially want you (sg), King Agrippa, to hear him. Then, after we (inc) have questioned him, I may know what I should write  to the emperor about him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC25_27","074_25_27","ACT","25","27","27","It seems to me  that it would be unreasonable to send a prisoner  to the emperor in Rome without my specifying the  things about which people are accusing him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_1","074_26_1","ACT","26","1","1","Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You (sg) are permitted  now to speak  to defend yourself.” Paul stretched out his hand ◄dramatically/to salute the king► and began to defend himself. He said, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_2","074_26_2","ACT","26","2","2","“King Agrippa, I consider that I am fortunate that today, while you (sg) listen, I can defend myself from all the things about which the Jewish  leaders SYN are accusing me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_3","074_26_3","ACT","26","3","3","I am really fortunate, because you (sg) know all about the customs of us Jews and the questions that we (exc) argue about. So I ask you, please listen patiently to what I say.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_4","074_26_4","ACT","26","4","4","“Many HYP of my fellow Jews know about how I have conducted my life, from the time I was a child. They know how I lived in the area where I  was born and  also later in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_5","074_26_5","ACT","26","5","5","They have known for many years, and they could tell you, if they wanted to, that  since I was very young I obeyed the customs of our religion very carefully, just like the  other Pharisees do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_6","074_26_6","ACT","26","6","6","Today I am being put on trial { they are putting me on trial} because I am confidently expecting that God will do what he promised our (exc) ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_7","074_26_7","ACT","26","7","7","Our twelve tribes are  also confidently waiting for God to do  for us what he promised, as they respectfully worship him, day and night.  Respected king, I confidently expect  that God will do what he promised, and they also believe that! But that is the reason that these Jewish leaders SYN are accusing me! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_8","074_26_8","ACT","26","8","8","They believe that God can cause those who have died to become alive again, so ◄why  do any of you refuse to believe that he raised Jesus from the dead?/none of you should refuse to believe that he raised Jesus from the dead!► RHQ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_9","074_26_9","ACT","26","9","9","“ Formerly I, too, was sure that I should do everything that I could to oppose Jesus MTY, the man from Nazareth  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_10","074_26_10","ACT","26","10","10","So that is what I did  when I lived in Jerusalem. I put many of the believers in jail, as the chief priests there had authorized me  to do. When  the Jewish leaders wanted those Christians killed {someone to kill those Christians}, I voted  for that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_11","074_26_11","ACT","26","11","11","Many times I punished the believers  whom I found in Jewish meeting places.  By punishing them, I tried to force them to speak evil  about Jesus. I was so angry with the followers of Jesus that I even traveled to other cities to  find them and do things to harm them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_12","074_26_12","ACT","26","12","12","“ One day, I was on my way to Damascus  city to do that. The chief priests  in Jerusalem had authorized and sent me  to seize the believers there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_13","074_26_13","ACT","26","13","13"," My respected king,  while I was going along the road, at about noon I saw a  bright light in the sky. It was even brighter than the sun! It shone all around me, and also around the men who were traveling with me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_14","074_26_14","ACT","26","14","14","We (exc) all fell to the ground. Then I heard the voice of someone speaking to me in my own Hebrew language MTY. He said ‘Saul, Saul, ◄stop causing me to suffer!/why are you causing me to suffer?► RHQ You (sg) are  hurting yourself by trying to hurt me MET,  like an ox kicking against  its owner’s goad.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_15","074_26_15","ACT","26","15","15","Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘I am Jesus. You (sg) are harming me  by harming my followers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_16","074_26_16","ACT","26","16","16","But instead  of continuing to do that, stand up now! I have appeared to you (sg) to tell you that I have chosen you to serve me. You must tell people about  what I am showing you as you are seeing me  now, and about what I  will show you when I will  later appear to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_17","074_26_17","ACT","26","17","17","I will protect you  from those who will try to harm you, both your own people and  also those who are not Jewish. I am sending you to non-Jews ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_18","074_26_18","ACT","26","18","18","to help them to realize MTY what is true and to stop believing what is false MET. I am sending you to them so that they may let God control them and not let Satan control them anymore.  Then God will forgive their sins and will accept them as his people because they believe in me.’  That is what Jesus said to me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_19","074_26_19","ACT","26","19","19","“So, King Agrippa, I fully obeyed LIT what  the Lord Jesus told me to do when he spoke to me from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_20","074_26_20","ACT","26","20","20","First, I preached to  the Jews in Damascus. Then I  preached to the Jews in Jerusalem and throughout  the rest of Judea  province. After that, I also preached to non-Jews. I preached that they must turn away from their sinful behavior and turn their lives over to God. I told them that they must do things that would show that they had truly stopped their sinful behavior.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_21","074_26_21","ACT","26","21","21","“It is because I  preached this message  that some SYN Jews seized me  when I was in the Temple  courtyard and tried to kill me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_22","074_26_22","ACT","26","22","22","However, God has been helping me  from that time, and he is still helping me today. So I stand here and I tell  all of you people, those who are important and those who are not,  who Jesus is. Everything that I say  about him is what Moses and the  other prophets wrote  about long ago, things that they said would happen. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_23","074_26_23","ACT","26","23","23","They wrote that  people would cause the Messiah to suffer and die. They also wrote that he would be the first person to become alive again, to proclaim  the message that would be like light,  that he would save both  his own Jewish people and non-Jewish people.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_24","074_26_24","ACT","26","24","24","Before Paul could say anything  further to defend himself, Festus shouted: “Paul, you are crazy! You have studied too much, and it has made you insane!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_25","074_26_25","ACT","26","25","25","But Paul answered, “Your Excellency, Festus, I am not raving  insanely. On the contrary, what I am saying is true and sensible! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_26","074_26_26","ACT","26","26","26","King Agrippa knows the things  that I have been talking about, and I can speak confidently to him  about them. I am sure that he knows LIT these things, because people everywhere IDM have heard LIT about what happened  to Jesus.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_27","074_26_27","ACT","26","27","27","Then Paul asked, “King Agrippa, do you believe  what the prophets  wrote? I know that you (sg) believe it.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_28","074_26_28","ACT","26","28","28","Then Agrippa  answered Paul, “◄ I hope that you(sg) do not think that by the few things  that you have just now said you can persuade me to become a Christian!/You do not think,  do you, that by the few things  that you have just now said you can persuade me to become a Christian?►” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_29","074_26_29","ACT","26","29","29","Paul replied, “Whether it takes a short time or a long time, it does not matter. I pray to God that you and also all of the others who are listening to me today will also  believe in Jesus like I do, but I do not want you to become prisoners MTY  like I am.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_30","074_26_30","ACT","26","30","30","Then the king, the governor, Bernice, and all the others got up ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_31","074_26_31","ACT","26","31","31","and left  the room. While they were talking to one another they said to each other, “There is no reason why ◄the authorities/we► should execute this man, or that he should even be kept in prison MTY.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC26_32","074_26_32","ACT","26","32","32","Agrippa said to Festus, “If this man had not asked that the Emperor judge him, he could have been released { we(inc) could have released him}.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_1","074_27_1","ACT","27","1","1","When  the Governor and those who advised him decided that it was time for us (exc) to get on a ship and go to Italy, they put Paul and some other prisoners into the hands/care of an army captain whose name was Julius.  He was the one who would guard us on the journey. Julius was  an officer in charge of  a group of 100  soldiers that people called ‘the Emperor Augustus Group’. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_2","074_27_2","ACT","27","2","2","So we got on a ship that had come from Adramyttium  city in Asia province. The ship was going to  return there, stopping at cities along the coast of Asia  province. Aristarchus,  a fellow believer who was from Thessalonica  city in Macedonia  province, went with us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_3","074_27_3","ACT","27","3","3","The day after  the ship sailed, we arrived at Sidon  city. Julius kindly told Paul that he could go and see his friends  who lived there, so that they could give him whatever he might need.  So Paul visited the believers there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_4","074_27_4","ACT","27","4","4","Then the ship left  Sidon, but the winds were blowing against us (exc), so  the ship went along  the north side of Cyprus  Island, the side that is sheltered  from the wind. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_5","074_27_5","ACT","27","5","5","After that, we crossed over the sea close to the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia  provinces. The ship arrived at Myra  city, which is in Lycia  province.  We got off the ship there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_6","074_27_6","ACT","27","6","6","In Myra,  people told Julius that a ship  was there that had come from Alexandria  city and would  soon sail to Italy. So he arranged for us to get  on that ship,  and we left. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_7","074_27_7","ACT","27","7","7","We sailed slowly for several days and finally arrived close to the coast  of Asia province, near Cnidus  town. After that, the wind  was very strong and did not allow the ship to move straight ahead  westward. So instead, we sailed  southward along the side of Crete  Island that is sheltered  from the wind, and we passed  near Cape Salmone. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_8","074_27_8","ACT","27","8","8"," The wind was still strong, and it prevented the ship from moving ahead fast. So we moved slowly along the coast  of Crete, and we arrived at a harbor that was called Fair Havens, near Lasea  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_9","074_27_9","ACT","27","9","9","Much time had passed, so it would have been dangerous if we (exc) had traveled  farther by ship  because after that time of the year MTY  the sea often became very stormy. So Paul said to the men  on the ship, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_10","074_27_10","ACT","27","10","10","“Men, I perceive that  if we(inc) travel by ship now, it will be disastrous for us. A storm may destroy the ship and the cargo, and possibly we will drown.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_11","074_27_11","ACT","27","11","11","But the officer  did not listen to what Paul said. Instead, he decided to do what the pilot  of the ship and the owner of the ship advised. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_12","074_27_12","ACT","27","12","12","The harbor where the ship had stopped was not a good place to remain during the winter  when the weather frequently becomes stormy. So most of the people on the ship decided that we(exc) should leave there, because they hoped that we could stay at Phoenix  port during the winter, if we could possibly arrive there. That harbor was open to the sea in two directions,  but the strong winds did not blow there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_13","074_27_13","ACT","27","13","13","Then a gentle wind began to blow  from the south, and the crew members thought that they could travel as they had decided  to do. So they lifted  the anchor up out of the sea, and the ship sailed  westward along the  southern shore of Crete  Island. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_14","074_27_14","ACT","27","14","14","But after a while, a wind that was very strong blew across the island  from the north side and hit the ship. That wind was called { People called that wind} “the Northeast Wind.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_15","074_27_15","ACT","27","15","15","It blew strongly against the  front of the ship. The result was that we could not keep going in the direction  in which we had been going. So the sailors let the wind move the ship in the direction  that the wind was blowing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_16","074_27_16","ACT","27","16","16","The ship then passed a small island named Cauda. We passed along the side  of the island that sheltered  the ship from the wind. Then  while the ship was moving along, the sailors lifted the lifeboat up  out of the water and tied it  on the deck. But the strong wind made it difficult even to do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_17","074_27_17","ACT","27","17","18","After the sailors hoisted/lifted the lifeboat onto the ship, they tied ropes around the ship’s hull to strengthen the ship. The sailors were afraid that,  because the wind was pushing the ship, it might run onto the sandbanks off the coast of Libya to the south  and get stuck there. So they lowered the largest sail  so that the ship would move slower. Even so, the wind continued to move the ship along.  The wind and the waves continued to toss the ship about roughly, so on the next day the sailors began to throw overboard the things that the ship was carrying. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_19","074_27_19","ACT","27","19","19","On the third  day after the stormy wind had begun to blow, the sailors/we MTY threw overboard  most of the sails, ropes, and poles,  in order to make the ship lighter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_20","074_27_20","ACT","27","20","20","The wind continued to blow very strongly,  and the sky was full of dark clouds day and night. We could not see the sun or the stars for many days,  so we could not determine where we were. And the wind continued to blow violently. So we (exc) finally thought that we would drown in the sea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_21","074_27_21","ACT","27","21","21","None of us on the ship had eaten for many days.  Then one day, Paul stood up in front of us and said, “ Friends, you should have listened to me  when I said that we (inc) should not sail from Crete. Then we would have been safe, and the ship and its cargo would be in good condition LIT. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_22","074_27_22","ACT","27","22","22","But now, I urge you, do not be afraid, because none of us will die.  The storm will destroy the ship but not us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_23","074_27_23","ACT","27","23","23","I  know this, because last night God, the one to whom I belong and whom I serve,  sent an angel  who came and stood by me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_24","074_27_24","ACT","27","24","24","The angel said to me, ‘Paul, do not be afraid! You (sg) must  go to Rome and stand before the Emperor there  so that he can judge you. I want you to know that God has made it clear to me that all those who are traveling by ship with you  will also survive.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_25","074_27_25","ACT","27","25","25","So cheer up,  my friends, because I believe that God will make this happen, exactly as  the angel told me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_26","074_27_26","ACT","27","26","26","However,  the ship will crash on some island,  and we (inc) will go ashore  there.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_27","074_27_27","ACT","27","27","27","On the fourteenth night  after the storm had begun, the ship was still being blown {the wind was still blowing  the ship} across the Adriatic sea. About midnight, the sailors sensed that the ship was getting close to land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_28","074_27_28","ACT","27","28","28","So they lowered  a weight on a rope to measure how deep  the water was. When they pulled the rope up again, they measured it and saw that the water was ◄120 ft./37 meters► deep. They went a little farther and lowered the rope again.  That time, they saw that the water was  only about ◄90 ft./28 meters► deep. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_29","074_27_29","ACT","27","29","29","They were afraid that the  ship might go onto some rocks, so they threw out four anchors from the ship’s stern/back and continued to wish/pray that it would soon be dawn  so that they could see where the ship was going. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_30","074_27_30","ACT","27","30","30","Some of the sailors were planning to escape from the ship, so they lowered the lifeboat into the sea. In order  that no one would know what they planned to do, they pretended  that they wanted to lower some anchors from the  ship’s front/bow. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_31","074_27_31","ACT","27","31","31","But Paul said to the army officer and soldiers, “If the sailors do not stay in the ship, you have no hope of being saved.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_32","074_27_32","ACT","27","32","32","So the soldiers cut the ropes and let the lifeboat fall into the water. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_33","074_27_33","ACT","27","33","33","Just before dawn, Paul urged everyone  on the ship to eat some food. He said, “For the past 14 days you have been waiting and watching and not eating anything. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_34","074_27_34","ACT","27","34","34","So,  now I urge you to eat some food. We (inc) need to do that in order to stay alive. I  tell you to do that because I know that none of you will drown IDM.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_35","074_27_35","ACT","27","35","35","After Paul had said that, while everyone was watching, he took some bread and thanked God  for it. Then he broke the bread and began to eat some of it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_36","074_27_36","ACT","27","36","36","The  rest of us became encouraged, so we (exc) all ate some food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_37","074_27_37","ACT","27","37","37","Altogether there were 276 of us SYN on the ship. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_38","074_27_38","ACT","27","38","38","When everyone had eaten as much as they wanted, they threw the grain  that the ship was carrying into the sea, and this made the ship lighter. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_39","074_27_39","ACT","27","39","39","At dawn,  we(exc) could see land,  but the sailors did not recognize  the place. However, they could see that there was a bay and  a wide area of sand at the water’s edge. They planned that, if it was possible, they would steer the ship onto  the beach. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_40","074_27_40","ACT","27","40","40"," So some of the sailors cut the anchor  ropes and let the anchors fall into the sea. At the same time,  other sailors untied the  ropes that fastened the rudders,  so that they could steer the ship again. Then  the sailors raised the sail at the front/bow of the ship so that the wind  would blow the ship forward, and the ship headed towards the shore. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_41","074_27_41","ACT","27","41","41","But the ship hit a sandbank. The front of the ship stuck there and could not move, and big waves beat against the back of the ship and it began to break apart. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_42","074_27_42","ACT","27","42","42","The soldiers said  to one another, “Let’s kill  all the prisoners  on the ship, so that they will not  be able to swim  away and escape.”  They planned to do that because they were sure that officials  would order them to be executed if they let the prisoners escape. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_43","074_27_43","ACT","27","43","43","But Julius, the army captain, wanted to save Paul, so he stopped the soldiers from doing what they planned to do. Instead, he  commanded first that everyone who could swim should jump into the water and swim to land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC27_44","074_27_44","ACT","27","44","44"," Then he told the others  to hold onto planks or pieces from the ship  and go towards shore. We(exc) did what he said, and in that way all of us arrived safely on land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_1","074_28_1","ACT","28","1","1","After we (exc) had arrived safely  on the shore, we learned that it was an island called Malta. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_2","074_28_2","ACT","28","2","2","The people who lived there received us kindly. They lit a fire and invited us to come and warm ourselves, because it was raining and it was cold. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_3","074_28_3","ACT","28","3","3","Paul gathered some sticks and put them on the fire. But  among those sticks was a snake that had come out  from the fire to escape from the heat, and it fastened itself on Paul’s hand. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_4","074_28_4","ACT","28","4","4"," The islanders knew that the snake was poisonous, so when they saw it hanging from Paul’s hand, they said to each other, “Probably this man has murdered someone. Although he has escaped from being drowned,  the god ◄ who pays  people back/who punishes people► for their MTY sins will cause him to die.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_5","074_28_5","ACT","28","5","5","But Paul simply shook the snake off into the fire, and nothing happened to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_6","074_28_6","ACT","28","6","6","The people were expecting that Paul’s body would soon swell up or that he would suddenly fall down and die. But after they had waited a long time, they saw  that the snake had not harmed him  at all. So then the people changed their minds and said  to one another, “This man is not a murderer! Probably he is a god!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_7","074_28_7","ACT","28","7","7","Near where the people had made the fire, there were some fields that belonged to a man whose name was Publius. He was the chief official on the island. He invited us to  come and stay in his home. He took care of us for three days. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_8","074_28_8","ACT","28","8","8"," At that time Publius’ father had a fever and dysentery, and he was lying  in bed. So Paul visited him and prayed  for him. Then Paul placed his hands on him and healed him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_9","074_28_9","ACT","28","9","9","After Paul had done that, the other people on the island who were sick came  to him and  he healed them, too. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_10","074_28_10","ACT","28","10","10","They brought us gifts and  showed in other ways that they greatly respected us. When we were  ready to leave  three months later, they brought us food and other things that we would need  for the trip. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_11","074_28_11","ACT","28","11","11","After  we had stayed there three months, we  got on a ship  that was going to Italy and sailed away. The ship had been in  a harbor on the island during the months when there are many storms. It had come from Alexandria  city. On the front of the ship there were carved images of the twin gods  whose names were Castor and Pollux. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_12","074_28_12","ACT","28","12","12","We  sailed from the island and arrived at Syracuse  city on Sicily island and stayed there three days. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_13","074_28_13","ACT","28","13","13","Then we traveled on by ship and arrived at Rhegium  port in Italy. The next day, the wind was blowing from behind us,  so we sailed along fast. The day after that, we reached Puteoli  town, where we left the ship. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_14","074_28_14","ACT","28","14","14","In Puteoli we met some believers who invited us to stay with them for a week.  After visiting them, we  left there and started to travel by land to Rome. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_15","074_28_15","ACT","28","15","15"," A group of believers  who lived in Rome had heard that we (exc) were coming. So they came out  from Rome to meet us.  Some of them met us at  the town called ‘The Market on Appian Road’, and others met us at  the town called ‘The Three Inns’. When Paul saw those believers, he thanked God and was encouraged. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_16","074_28_16","ACT","28","16","16","After we (exc) arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted { a Roman official who was responsible for guarding Paul permitted Paul} to live  in a house by himself. But  there was always a soldier there to guard him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_17","074_28_17","ACT","28","17","17","After  Paul had been there three days, he sent a message to the Jewish leaders  to come and talk with him. So they came, and Paul said to them, “My fellow Jews, although I have not opposed our people nor spoken against the customs of our ancestors,  our leaders in Jerusalem  seized MTY  me. But before they could kill me, a Roman commander rescued me and later sent me to Caesarea for Roman  authorities/officials to put me on trial. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_18","074_28_18","ACT","28","18","18","The Roman authorities/officials questioned me and wanted to release me, because I had not done any  bad thing for which I should be executed {they should kill me}. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_19","074_28_19","ACT","28","19","19","But when the Jewish  leaders SYN there opposed  what the Roman authorities wanted to do, I had to formally request that the Emperor  judge me here in Rome. But my reason for doing that was not that I wanted to accuse our leaders about anything. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_20","074_28_20","ACT","28","20","20","So I have requested you  to come here so that I can tell you why I am a prisoner. It is because I believe in MTY our Messiah, the one  God long ago promised to send to us (inc) Jews.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_21","074_28_21","ACT","28","21","21","Then  the Jewish leaders said, “We (exc) have not received any letters from  our fellow Jews in Judea about you. Also, none of our fellow Jews who have arrived  here from Judea has said anything bad about you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_22","074_28_22","ACT","28","22","22","But we (exc) want to hear what you (sg) think about this Christian sect/group, because we know that in many places HYP bad things are being said {people are saying bad things} about it.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_23","074_28_23","ACT","28","23","23","So they  talked with Paul and decided that they would come back on another day to hear him. When that day arrived, those Jews came back to the place where Paul was staying, and they brought more Jews with them. Paul talked to them from morning until evening. He talked to them about how God wants to rule  people’s lives MET. He tried to convince them that Jesus  is the Messiah by reminding them what Moses and the other prophets had written MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_24","074_28_24","ACT","28","24","24","Some of those Jews believed that what was said  by Paul {what  Paul said} about Jesus  was true, but others did not believe  that it was true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_25","074_28_25","ACT","28","25","25","So they began to argue with one another.  Paul realized that some of them did not want to listen to him, so when they were about to leave, he said, “The Holy Spirit said something to your/our(incl) ancestors. He spoke these words to Isaiah the prophet,  and what he said is also true about you: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_26","074_28_26","ACT","28","26","26","Go to your fellow Israelites and tell them, ‘You repeatedly listen  to the message of God, but you never understand  what God is saying. You repeatedly look at and see  the things that God is doing, but you never understand  what they mean. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_27","074_28_27","ACT","28","27","27","God also said to the prophet, These people do not understand, because they have become stubborn. They have ears, but they do not understand what they hear, and they have closed their eyes  because they do not want to see. If they wanted to obey what I say to them, they might understand what they see  me doing and what they hear  me saying. Then they might turn from their sinful behavior and I would save them.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_28","074_28_28","ACT","28","28","29"," That is what God said to the prophet Isaiah about our ancestors. But you Jews today do not want to believe God’s message. Therefore, I am telling you that  God has sent to the non-Jews this message about how he saves people, and they will listen  and accept it!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_30","074_28_30","ACT","28","30","30","For two whole years Paul stayed  there in a house that he rented. Many people came to see him, and he received them all gladly  and talked with them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("AC28_31","074_28_31","ACT","28","31","31","He preached  and taught people about how God could rule  their lives MET and taught them about the Lord Jesus Christ. He did that without being afraid, and no one tried to stop him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_1","075_1_1","ROM","1","1","1"," I, Paul, who serve Christ Jesus,  am writing this letter. God chose me to be an apostle, and I was appointed by him {he appointed me} in order that  I should proclaim ◄the good message/the gospel► that  comes from him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_2","075_1_2","ROM","1","2","2","Long before Jesus came to earth, God promised  that he would reveal this good message by means of what his prophets  wrote in the sacred Scriptures. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_3","075_1_3","ROM","1","3","3","This good message is  about the one whom we know as his Son. As to his Son’s physical/human nature, he was born a descendant of  King David. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_4","075_1_4","ROM","1","4","4","As to his divine nature, it was shown { God showed} powerfully that he is ◄God’s own Son/the man who is also God►.  God showed this by his Holy Spirit causing him to become alive again after he died. He is Jesus Christ our Lord. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_5","075_1_5","ROM","1","5","5","He is the one who appointed me, who did not deserve it,  to be an apostle. He did that in order that  many among the non-Jews would honor  him and would obey him as a result of their believing  my message about him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_6","075_1_6","ROM","1","6","6","You believers who are living in Rome  city are included among those whom God has chosen to belong to Jesus Christ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_7","075_1_7","ROM","1","7","7"," I am writing this letter to all of  you in Rome whom God loves and whom he has chosen  to become his people.  I pray that God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord will  continue to act kindly toward you and  will continue to cause you to have  inner peace. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_8","075_1_8","ROM","1","8","8","As I begin  this letter, I thank my God for all you believers in Rome. It is because of  what Jesus Christ  has done for us that I  am able to do that. I thank him because your trusting  in Jesus Christ is something that people all over  the Roman Empire HYP are talking about. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_9","075_1_9","ROM","1","9","9","God, whom I devotedly serve as I  proclaim to people the gospel concerning his Son, knows that I tell the truth when I say that I always mention you whenever DOU I pray  to God HYP. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_10","075_1_10","ROM","1","10","10","I especially ask God that if he desires  me to visit you, somehow at last I shall be able to do so. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_11","075_1_11","ROM","1","11","11"," I pray this because I long to visit you to help you spiritually, in order that you will become stronger spiritually. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_12","075_1_12","ROM","1","12","12","I long to visit you in order that you and I might encourage each other  by means of our sharing with each other how each of us trusts  in Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_13","075_1_13","ROM","1","13","13","My fellow believers, many times I planned to visit you. I certainly want you to know LIT that.  But I have not been able to come to you because I have been hindered { things have always prevented me} until the present time. I have wanted to come in order that I might help you to mature spiritually IDM, as  I have helped people to mature spiritually in many other non-Jewish groups HYP. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_14","075_1_14","ROM","1","14","14","I feel obliged  to proclaim the gospel to all non-Jewish people, specifically to  people who know the Greek  language and culture and to those who do not know it, to people who are educated and to those who are uneducated. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_15","075_1_15","ROM","1","15","15","So what I have eagerly desired is that I might proclaim this good message to you who are living in Rome also. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_16","075_1_16","ROM","1","16","16"," That leads me to say that I very confidently proclaim LIT the good message  about what Christ has done, because this good message is the powerful  means that God  uses to save  from the guilt of their sins all people who trust  in what Christ has done for them. Specifically, God first has saved the Jews  who believe the good message, and then he has saved non-Jews. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_17","075_1_17","ROM","1","17","17","By means of this good message God reveals how he erases the record of people’s sins (OR, declares people no longer guilty for having sinned); and his doing this is entirely because IDM they trust  in Christ. This is confirmed by what  a prophet long ago wrote  that God said, “Those ◄whose record of sin  I have erased/whom  I have declared no longer guilty for sin► because they trust  in me will live  forever.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_18","075_1_18","ROM","1","18","18","From  where God rules in heaven he is making it clear to all non-Jewish people who show no respect for God and who do wicked things, that he is angry with them  and that they deserve to be punished { that he would punish them} MTY. By means of  their behaving wickedly, they keep other people  from believing what they know to be true  about God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_19","075_1_19","ROM","1","19","19"," Everyone can clearly know what God  is like, because God himself has revealed to everyone  what he is like. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_20","075_1_20","ROM","1","20","20"," People cannot see what God is like. But ever since he created the world, by means of what he created he has clearly revealed what he is like. He has made clear to everyone that he has always been able to do very powerful things.  Therefore, we should recognize that God is powerful,  completely different from all that he created. So no one has a basis for saying, “We never knew about God.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_21","075_1_21","ROM","1","21","21","Although  the non-Jews knew what God  is like, they did not honor him as God, nor did they thank  him for what he had done. But instead, they began to think foolish  things about him, and they became unable to understand MET  what he wanted them to know. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_22","075_1_22","ROM","1","22","22","Although they claimed that they were wise, they became foolish, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_23","075_1_23","ROM","1","23","23","and they refused to  admit that God is glorious and will never die. Instead, they made and worshipped idols  that resembled people who will some day die, and  then they made other idols that resembled birds and four-footed animals, and  finally they made idols that resembled reptiles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_24","075_1_24","ROM","1","24","24","So God allowed  the non-Jews do immoral sexual things that they SYN strongly desired, things  that their desires were compelling them to do. As a result, they  began to dishonor each other’s bodies  by their sexual actions. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_25","075_1_25","ROM","1","25","25","Also, they  chose to worship false  gods instead ◄of admitting/of choosing to believe► what is true  about God. They worshipped and served things  that God created instead of  worshipping and serving God himself, the one who created  everything. They did this even though he  deserves that those he created would forever praise him. Amen!/May it be so! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_26","075_1_26","ROM","1","26","26","So, God allowed  the non-Jews to do shameful  sexual things that they  strongly desired. As a result, many women did not have natural sexual relations  with their husbands EUP. Instead, they were doing sexual actions with other women EUP. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_27","075_1_27","ROM","1","27","27","Similarly,  many men stopped having/did not have natural sexual relations with women EUP. Instead, they strongly desired to have sexual relations with other men. They committed homosexual acts with other men, acts that were shameful. As a result,  God has punished them  by sicknesses in their bodies, which is what they deserve  because they  thought wrongly  that God would not punish them for doing that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_28","075_1_28","ROM","1","28","28","Furthermore, because they decided that it was not worthwhile to know God, he allowed their own worthless thoughts  to completely control them. As a result, they began doing  evil things that  God says that people should not do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_29","075_1_29","ROM","1","29","29","They strongly desire to do all  kinds of unrighteous  things. They strongly desire to do all  kinds of evil things  to others. They strongly desire to possess things that  belong to others. They strongly desire to harm  others in various ways.  Many non-Jews are constantly envying  other people. Many constantly desire to murder  people. Many constantly desire to cause strife  between people. Many constantly desire to deceive  others. Many constantly desire to speak hatefully  about others (OR,  to speak harmful things about others, things that are not true).  Many gossip  about others. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_30","075_1_30","ROM","1","30","30"," Many slander  others. Many act especially hatefully toward God.  Many speak or act in an insulting way  toward others. Many treat others contemptuously.  Many boast  about themselves to others. Many invent new ways to do evil things.  Many non-Jewish children disobey their parents. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_31","075_1_31","ROM","1","31","31"," Many non-Jews act in other morally foolish ways.  Many do not do what they promised  others that they would do. Many do not  even love  their own family members. And many do not act mercifully  toward other people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RM1_32","075_1_32","ROM","1","32","32","Although they know that God has declared that those who do such things deserve to be killed, they not only habitually do these  kinds of evil things, but they also approve of others who habitually do them. ");
