qCited from Isa. 52:15
Isaiah 49:20-22
20 aThe children of your bereavementwill yet say in your ears:
b‘The place is too narrow for me;
make room for me to dwell in.’
21Then you will say in your heart:
‘Who has borne me these?
cI was bereaved and barren,
exiled and put away,
but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
from where have these come?’”
22 Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
dand raise my signal to the peoples;
eand they shall bring your sons in their arms, ▼
▼Hebrew in their bosom
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Acts 2:41
41So those who received his word were baptized, and gthere were added that day about three thousand souls.Acts 4:4
4But many of those who had heard the word believed, and hthe number of the men came to about five thousand.Acts 21:20
20And when they heard it, they iglorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all jzealous for the law,Romans 15:18-21
18For I will not venture to speak of anything except kwhat Christ has accomplished through me lto bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, 19 mby the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that nfrom Jerusalem and all the way around oto Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ; 20and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, plest I build on someone else’s foundation, 21but as it is written,q“Those who have never been told of him will see,
and those who have never heard will understand.”
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