IN my former volume, Theophilus, I treated all that Jesus began by doing and teaching

who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

All these men resorted with one mind to prayer, together with the women, with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

"My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

Well then, of the men who have been associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness.

So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."

"Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!"

The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

and that the Lord may send Jesus your long-decreed Christ,

who were annoyed at them teaching the people and proclaiming Jesus as an instance of resurrection from the dead.

you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.

They were astonished to notice how outspoken Peter and John were, and to discover that they were uncultured persons and mere outsiders; they recognized them as having been companions of Jesus,

So they called the men in and ordered them not to speak or teach a single sentence about the Name of Jesus.

In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate ??Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

when thy hand is stretched out to heal and to perform miracles and wonders by the name of thy holy Servant Jesus."

the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great grace was upon them all.

The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you murdered by hanging him on a gibbet.

They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus.

not for a single day did they cease to teach and preach the gospel of Jesus the Christ in the temple and at home.

Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"

He, full of the holy Spirit, gazed up at heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

So they stoned Stephen, who called on the Lord, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

But when they believed Philip, who preached the gospel of the Reign of God and the name of Jesus, they had themselves baptized, both men and women;

(As yet it had not fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

Then Philip opened his lips, and starting from this scripture preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

"Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me.

So Ananias went off and entered the house, laying his hands on him with these words, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord, by Jesus who appeared to you on the road, to let you regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

Saul became more and more vigorous. He put the Jewish residents in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ;

Barnabas, however, got hold of him and brought him to the apostles. To them he related how he had seen the Lord upon the road, how He had spoken to him, and how he had spoken freely in the name of Jesus at Damascus.

"Aeneas," said Peter, "Jesus the Christ cures you! Get up and make your bed!" He got up at once.

You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all);

you know how it spread over the whole of Judaea, starting from Galilee after the baptism preached by John ??38 how God consecrated Jesus of Nazaret with the holy Spirit and power, and how he went about doing good and curing all who were harassed by the devil; for God was with him.

And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain for some days.

Well then, if God has given them exactly the same gift as he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I ??how could I try to thwart God?"

Some of them, however, were Cypriotes and Cyrenians, who on reaching Antioch told the Greeks also the gospel of the Lord Jesus;

They covered the whole island as far as Paphos, where they fell in with a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet called Bar-Jesus;

From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus,

has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are."

who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

when they got as far as Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them,

She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.

"Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well."

explaining and quoting passages to prove that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "the Jesus I proclaim to you is the messiah."

Jason has welcomed them! They all violate the decrees of Caesar by declaring someone else called Jesus is king."

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and he preached and taught about Jesus with ardour and accuracy, though all the baptism he knew was that of John.

for he publicly refuted the Jews with might and main, showing from the scriptures that the messiah was Jesus.

"John," said Paul, "baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

When they heard this, they had themselves baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus,

Some strolling Jewish exorcists also undertook to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you ??who are you?"

This came to the ears of all the inhabitants of Ephesus, Jews as well as Greeks; awe fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

'Who are you?' I asked. He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, and you are persecuting me.'

Some days later Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus;

The questions at issue referred to their own religion and to a certain Jesus who had died. Paul said he was alive.

I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

'Who are you?' I asked. And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus, and you are persecuting me.

So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

he preached the Reign of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unmolested.