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Acts 15:8

8 And God, who knows the heart, ^{▼▼ The expression who knows the heart means “who knows what people think.”} has testified ^{▼▼ Or “has borne witness.”} to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, ^{▼▼ By giving them…just as he did to us. The allusion is to the events of Acts 10–11, esp. 10:44–48 and Peter’s remarks in 11:15–18.}