NEW TESTAMENT

Acts 2:40

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With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

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Verse 40. And with a great many other words did he testify and exhort them. Saint Luke only gives an abridgment of those exhortations, which Saint Peter, and the apostles frequently gave to all the people. Saint Peter, as Saint John Chrysostom observes, and as we see in these Acts, was the mouth of all the rest. And on this first day of Pentecost, about three thousand were converted. Witham.

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