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47 For thus the Lord has commanded us [in Isa 49:6]: ‘I have placed you for[a] a light to the Gentiles, that you may be a light for salvation as far as the last place of the earth’”. 48 And the Gentiles, having heard it, were rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord. And all who had been appointed[b] to eternal life believed.

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49 And the word of the Lord was being carried[c] through the whole region[d].

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:47 That is, to be a light.
  2. Acts 13:48 Or, assigned, arrayed, arranged. That is, predestined by God to believe; or, providentially arranged for eternal life that day as ripe fruit ready for harvest.
  3. Acts 13:49 Or, spread.
  4. Acts 13:49 That is, the region of Phrygia, in which Pisidian Antioch (v 14) was located. This region is in the Roman province of Galatia.

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