According to Acts, Paul spent better than two years in Ephesus and was emotionally attached to the believers there.

According to the sceptics, Adomnán's story may be independent of the modern Loch Ness Monster legend entirely, only becoming attached to it in retrospect by believers seeking to bolster their claims.

According to political scientist William Harpine in his study of the rhetoric of the 1896 campaign, " Bryan's speech cast a net for the true believers, but only for the true believers.

According to Ellingson, Fairchild ends his book with a denunciation of the ( always unnamed ) believers in primitivism or " The Noble Savage " -- whom he feels are threatening to unleash the dark forces of irrationality on civilization.

According to Vodou believers, when this occurs, it is a sign that a possession is about to take place.

According to the Twelver's belief, after the last of these representatives died, the Imam Mahdi went into a state of Occultation ; while still alive, he was no longer accessible to his believers.

According to its supporters, Livets Ord's primary goal is to help believers put into practice what the Bible says.

According to the statement of the Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council regarding Conversion, converts to Judaism do not in any way have a higher status within Messianic Judaism than the Messianic believers who are considered by the UMJC to still be gentiles who are attached to their communities.

According to Kramer, Jews are regarded as members of a legitimate community of believers in God, " people of the Book ", and therefore legally entitled to sufferance.

According to Edwin Reischauer, and Marius Jansen, some 70 – 80 % of the Japanese regularly tell pollsters they do not consider themselves believers in any religion.

According to the 2002 First General National Census of Georgia, there are 3, 541 Jewish believers in the country.

According to her fellow believers, she began to show evidence of mediumistic abilities in 1892, and claimed to communicate with Victor Hugo and Cagliostro.

In the Recovery Version, the translation used by the believers in the local churches, one footnote for 1 Corinthians 14: 34 reads :" According to 1 Corinthians 11: 5, women may prophesy ( both in public and meetings ), that is, ( mainly ) speak for the Lord and speak forth the Lord with their head covered, and Acts 2: 17, 18 and 21: 9 confirm that women did prophesy.

According to Lee, " every local church should receive all kinds of genuine believers in Christ ", and having a name, such as Baptist, Methodist or Catholic, was divisive and contrary to the oneness all the saints have inherited in Christ.

According to the theory, believers experienced tension following the failure of Jesus ' reappearance in 1844, which led to a variety of new explanations.

According to these believers, Jesus and the Apostles taught that the New Birth experience includes repentance ( the true Sinner's Prayer ), and baptism in both water and God's Spirit.

According to Johannes Quasten, “ In his eschatological ideas Justin shares the views of the Chiliasts concerning the millennium .” He maintains a premillennial distinctive, namely that there would be two resurrections, one of believers before Jesus ' reign and then a general resurrection afterwards.

According to Union statements, they believe " the true humanity and Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ ; the atonement made on the cross by our Lord for the sin of the world ; the person of the Holy Spirit as the one who sets apart, empowers, and imparts spiritual gifts to the church ; the inspiration of the Bible and its authority in all matters of faith and practice ; salvation and membership in the Church by faith in Christ alone ; membership of the church for the regenerate ; the immersion of believers as the scriptural form of water baptism.

According to Phil Zuckerman, " low response rates ", " non-random samples ", and " adverse political / cultural climates " are all persistent problems in establishing accurate numbers of religious believers in a given locality.

According to the 2001 census there are 14, 860 believers in the town ( 56. 2 % of the population ), out of whom 8, 916 ( 60 %) are Roman Catholics, 737 ( 5 %) Czech Brethren, 356 ( 2. 4 %) Jehovah's Witnesses and 1, 709 ( 11. 5 %) others, mainly Lutherans.

According to the 1999 Baptist World Alliance statistics, membership included 11, 100 believers in 245 congregations.

According to believers, these relics were ascertained to be genuine after they started emitting a liquid and strong scented myrrh.

According to his ministry, believers can become prosperous through tithing, giving offerings and using faith, as well as sound financial practices.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the name " Veronica " comes from the Latin vera, meaning " true " or " Truthful ", and the Greek eikon, meaning " image "; the Veil of Veronica was therefore largely regarded in medieval times as the " true image ", the truthful representation of Jesus, preceding the Shroud of Turin.

and A. D. Adler, " A Chemical Investigation on the Shroud of Turin ", Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences Journal 81-103, 1981 ) According to Shroud skeptic Joe Nickell, neither Heller nor Adler was a forensic serologist or a pigment expert.

According to Church officials, more than 2 million visitors came to see the Shroud.

According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to the legend, it was where festive Adonia took place, in which athletes competed in hunting wild boars during sport competitions ; they also competed in dancing and singing, all to the honour of Adonis.

According to Critias, 9, 000 years before his lifetime a war took place between those outside the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar and those who dwelt within them.

According to Livy ( v. 34 ), they took part in the expedition of Bellovesus into Italy in the 6th century BC.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

According to the Book of Jubilees, Ur Kasdim ( and Chaldea ) took their name from Ura and Kesed, descendants of Arpachshad.

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.

According to traditional rabbinic dating, this took place about fifty-two years after the start of the Babylonian Exile.

According to Truffaut's theory, auteurs took material that was beneath their talents — a thriller, a pulpy action film, a romance — and, through their style, put their own personal stamp on it.

According to the historian Polybius, considerable debate took place in Rome on the question of whether to accept the Mamertines ' appeal for help, and thus likely enter into a war with Carthage.

According to Kildall, the IBM representatives took the same flight to Florida that night that he and Dorothy took for their vacation, and they negotiated further on the flight, reaching a handshake agreement.

According to his own account, it took place in 1940 in a part of the New Forest and was designed to ward off the Nazis from invading Britain by magical means.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

According to Lucian, Herodotus took his finished work straight from Asia Minor to the Olympic Games and read the entire Histories to the assembled spectators in one sitting, receiving rapturous applause at the end of it.

" According to the tradition, Hannibal's oath took place in the town of Peñíscola, today part of the community of Valencia, Spain.

According to A & E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her.

According to another account, Goebbels shot his wife and then took his own life by shooting himself.

According to William Seale, he took several slaves with him to Washington to serve at the White House from 1817 to 1825.

According to the Annales Cracovienses Compilati, this event took place in 1136 ; since it can be assumed that the Polish princess was younger than her betrothed, and also are known the birth dates of the youngest children of Bolesław III ( Agnes in 1137 and Casimir in 1138 ), Judith in consequence could have been born between 1130 and 1135.

According to another legend, Jadwiga took a piece of jewelry from her foot and gave it to a poor stonemason who had begged for her help.