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Acts 12
²⁰ Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and with one accord they came to him, and having won over Blastus the king’s chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because their country was fed by the king’s country.
²¹ On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them.
²² The people kept crying out, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"
²³ And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
²⁴ But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.
²⁵ And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their mission, taking along with them John, who was also called Mark.
Acts 13
¹ Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
² While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."
³ Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
⁴ So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
⁵ When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper.