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Acts 13:47-49
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47 For so the Lord has commanded us:

‘I have appointed you to be[a] a light for the Gentiles,
    that you would bring[b] salvation to the end of the earth.’[c]

48 And when[d] the Gentiles heard this,[e] they began to rejoice[f] and to glorify the word of the Lord. And all those who were designated for eternal life believed. 49 So the word of the Lord was carried through the whole region.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:47 Literally “for”
  2. Acts 13:47 Literally “that you would bring”
  3. Acts 13:47 An allusion to Isa 42:6; 49:6
  4. Acts 13:48 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  5. Acts 13:48 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  6. Acts 13:48 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to rejoice”)
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