NEW TESTAMENT

Acts 20:23

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except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

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Verse 23. In every city. There were in every city Christian prophets, who foretold to Paul the tribulations which awaited him. It appears, then, that the apostle did not know these things by immediate revelation made to himself, but by that made to the prophets. Of this we have a proof in the next chapter.

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