Identifier: biblepanoramaorh00fost (find matches)
Title: The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Foster, William A. (from old catalog)
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gain. Then he stayed with the disciples who were in Damascus,and went into the synagogues and preached about Christ to the people, tellingthem that he was the Son of God. But all who heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this the man whopersecuted those who believed, in Jerusalem, and came here that he might bindthe disciples and carry them to the chief priests to be punished? Yet Saulpreached more and more earnestly, and proved, out of the Scriptures, to theJews at Damascus, that Jesus was the Saviour; so that although they would notbelieve, they could not deny what he said. And after many days had passed, theJews, being filled with anger, talked -with one another, about some way of killinghim. And they watched by day and by night, to take him when he should goout through the gates of the city. But the disciples heard of it, and took himby night, and let him down in a basket from a window that was over the wall,so that he escaped out of Damascus and afterward went to Jerusalem. 296
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AS HE IS GOING TOWARD DAMASCUS, SAUL IS STRICKEN DOWN TO THE EARTH. 297 ACTS IX. 1. The Apostles Preach in the Cities and Convert Many. T T ; fHE apostles went to many different cities and preached the gospel of JesusChrist. The people of some of these cities rose up against the apostlesand beat them, and put them in prison, but God helped them to escape,and gave them power to do miracles, so that great numbers, both of the Jewsand the Gentiles, believed. One of the cities to which Paul went was Athens, the chief city of Greece.And as he passed through the streets he saw that the city was full of idols.This grieved him at his heart; and he preached not only to the Jews in theirsynagogue, but he went every day to the market-place, and explained the gospelto all the people. And they took him and brought him to the place where thechief court of Athens met, on a hill called Mars1 Hill, in the centre of the city.And Paul stood up, and said, Te men of Athens, I see that you think a greatdea

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