So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"

And after he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched him go into heaven."

"Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know

this man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put him to death.

But God raised him up, having loosed the agony of death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.

For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before me; for he is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.

And so, because he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne,

Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."

And Peter, along with John, directed his gaze at him, and said, "Look at us."

And taking him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

and they recognized him as the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

And when Peter saw this he addressed the people, "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

And his name, by faith in his name, has made this man strong whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Jesus has given him perfect health in the presence of you all.

For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways."

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands before you healed.

The young men arose and wrapped him up, carried him out, and buried him.

But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and they were filled with jealousy.

The God of our fathers raised Jesuswhom you had killed by hanging him on a tree.

God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior, to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some people after him; he too perished, and all those who followed him were scattered.

Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God."

They stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came on him and seized him, and brought him before the council.

for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the Council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

and said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives, and go into the land that I will show you.'

Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.

But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even though he had no child, he promised that he would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

"And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

and rescued him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

Then Josnt sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five persons in all.

and when he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and avenged the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.

And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

But the man who was wronging his neighbor pushed him aside, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

And the Lord said to him, 'Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

This Moses whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' is the one God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to us.

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

saying to Aaron, 'Make for us gods who will go before us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egyptwe do not know what has happened to him.'

"Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.

But it was Solomon who built a house for him.

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed together upon him with.

Then they cast him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.

and they all, from the least to the greatest, gave attention to him, saying, "This man is what is called the Great Power of God."

And they gave heed to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.

But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

So Philip ran up to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken up from the earth."

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture he told him the good news of Jesus.

And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Now as he journeyed he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.

Saul got up from the ground; and when his eyes were opened, he could see nothing; so they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.

Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "Here I am, Lord."

And the Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,

and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight."

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

for I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

So Ananias departed and entered the house. And after laying his hands on him said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

All those who heard him were amazed, and said, "Is this not he who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?"

When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,

but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him;

but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.

When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were seeking to kill him.

But when the brethren learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your bed." Immediately he got up.

And all who lived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him, "Please come to us without delay."

So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing the tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God who had just come in and said to him, "Cornelius!"

And he stared at him in terror, and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat!"

And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call common."

While Peter was reflecting on the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you.

So he invited them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went off with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshipped him.

But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am just a man."

As he talked with him, he went in and found many people assembled.

And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

but in every nation the man who fears him and does what is right is welcome to him.

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree;

but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,

not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.