when suddenly there came from the sky a sound like a violent blast of wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And they saw tongues like flames separating and settling one on the head of each of them,

They had the apostles brought before them and demanded of them, "By what power or authority have men like you done this?"

Everyone who sat in the council fixed his eyes on him, and they saw that his face was like that of an angel.

In the desert our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony built like the model Moses had seen, just as he who spoke to him told him to make it.

This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth.

Something like scales immediately dropped from his eyes, and his sight was restored, and he got up and was baptized,

and saw the sky opened and a thing like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by the four corners,

"I was praying in the town of Joppa, and while in a trance I had a vision. Something like a great sheet came down out of the sky, lowered by its four corners. It came right down to me,

and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

So if we are God's children we ought not to imagine that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, wrought by human art and thought.

When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We should like to hear you again on this subject."

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "

They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

I was at a loss as to how to investigate such matters, and I asked him if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried on these charges there.

"I should like to hear the man myself," Agrippa said to Festus. "You shall hear him tomorrow," Festus answered.