"Fellow Israelites, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you yourselves well know, a man accredited to you by God through mighty deeds and wonders and wonder-works which God performed through Him right here among you,

so that they kept bringing out into the streets their sick ones and putting them on little couches or pallets, that at least the shadow of Peter, as he went by, might fall on some of them.

When the military commander of the temple square and the high priest heard this, they were utterly at a loss to know how this might turn out.

Moses was educated in all the culture of the Egyptians, and was a mighty man in speech and action.

They came and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that if he found any men or women belonging to The Way he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

so that they might search for God, possibly they might grope for Him, and find Him, though He is really not far from any of us.

the colonel ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks, and told them to examine him by flogging, in order that he might find out why they were crying out against him in such a way.

Since the dispute kept growing hotter and hotter, the colonel became alarmed that Paul might be torn in pieces by them, and so ordered the army to march down and take him out of their hands and bring him back to the barracks.

Agrippa said to Festus, "He might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to the emperor."