The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great day of the Lord shall come.

For David says in reference to him, I foresaw my Lord always before me, because he is on my right hand, in order that I may not be moved.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Child, Jesus, who you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate having decided to release Him.

For before these days Theudas arose, saying that he was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, adhered, who were slain, and all, so many as confided in him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

And the word was pleasing before all the multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas,

the Antiochian proselyte, whom they placed before the apostles, and having prayed, they placed their hands on them.

And he said, Men, brothers and fathers, hear ye; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he migrated into Haran, and He said to him;

and God was with him, and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh the king of Egypt; and he placed him governor over Egypt and all his house.

saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt, we know not what happened to him.

who found favor before God, and asked that he should build a tabernacle for the house of Jacob.

There is neither part nor lot to thee in this word: for thy heart is not right before God.

and the place of the scripture which he was reading was this, He was led like a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before the one shearing him is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

And the Lord said to him, Go: because he is a vessel of election to me, to bear my name both before the Gentiles, and kings, and sons of Israel:

And he looking upon him, and being afraid, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayer and thine alms have come up for a memorial before God.

And Cornelius said, From the fourth day until this hour, indeed the ninth, I was praying in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in shining apparel,

and says, Cornelius, thy prayer has been heard, and thine alms have been remembered before God.

Then I immediately sent for thee; and thou hast done well being present. Now therefore we are all present before God, to hear all things which have been commanded thee of the Lord.

But when Herod was about to lead him forth, and Peter was sleeping that night between two soldiers, and bound with two chains; and the guards were keeping guard before the door.

and recognizing the voice of Peter, from joy did not open the gate, but running in, she proclaimed that Peter stands before the gate.

and John having preached the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel, before the face of his coming.

And having asked for a light, he sprang in, and being alarmed, he fell down before Paul and Silas,

And all taking Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, beat him before the tribunal; and nothing of these things was a care to Gallio.

And many of those practicing curious arts, having brought their books, burnt them before all: and they estimated the price of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

And Paul, looking the sanhedrim in the face, said, Men, brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God unto this day.

Now therefore do you appeal to the chiliarch along with the sanhedrim, that he may lead him down to you, as about to investigate matters concerning him more thoroughly: and we are ready to kill him before he comes nigh.

And after five days Ananias the high priest with certain elders, and a certain orator Tertyllus, came down, who appeared before the governor against Paul.

neither are they able to prove before you the things which they are now accusing me.

whom it behooves to be present before me, and accuse me, if they should have anything against me.

Or let them tell what injustice they found, while I was standing before the sanhedrim,

except concerning this one voice, which I cried out standing in their midst, that concerning the resurrection of the dead I am judged before you this day.

and both the chief priests and the first men of the Jews appeared before him against Paul, and continued to entreat him,

concerning whom, I being in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews appeared before me, asking condemnation against him;

to whom I responded, that it is not the customs to the Romans to slay any man gratuitously, before that the accused may have his accusers face to face, and receive a place of defence concerning the charge.

O king Agrippa, I consider myself happy, being about this day to make my defence before thee concerning all those things of which I am accused by the Jews:

saying, Fear not, Paul; for it behooveth thee to stand before Caesar: and, behold, God has given thee all those sailing along with thee.