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Acts 12:17

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beckoning: Acts 13:16, Acts 19:33, Acts 21:40; Luke 1:22; John 13:24

declared: Psalms 66:16, Psalms 102:20-21, Psalms 107:21-22, Psalms 116:14-15, Psalms 146:7

James: Acts 15:13, Acts 21:18; 1 Corinthians 15:7; Galatians 1:19, Galatians 2:9, Galatians 2:12; James 1:1

And he: Acts 16:40; Matthew 10:23; John 7:1, John 8:59, John 10:40, John 11:54

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