certain: Acts 17:4, Acts 13:48; Isaiah 55:10-11; Matthew 20:16; Romans 11:5-6
the Areopagite: Acts 17:19; John 7:48-52, John 19:38-42; Philippians 4:22
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Acts 17:34
Acts 17:34
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