Acts 9:15

15But the Lord said to him, Go, for ahe is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name bbefore the Gentiles and ckings and the children of Israel.

Acts 13:1

Barnabas and Saul Sent Off

1Now there were in the church at Antioch dprophets and eteachers, fBarnabas, Simeon who was called Niger,
 Niger is a Latin word meaning black, or dark
Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of hHerod the tetrarch, and Saul.
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