'Us' in the Bible

for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry."

Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us -- one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us."

Then they prayed, "Lord, you know the hearts of all. Show us which one of these two you have chosen

And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

"Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Peter looked directly at him (as did John) and said, "Look at us!"

When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name."

for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard."

saying, "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name. Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood on us!"

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

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

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt -- we do not know what has happened to him!'

Because Lydda was near Joppa, when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him and urged him, "Come to us without delay."

Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us."

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

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,

Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?"

Brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son; today I have fathered you.'

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: 'I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"

So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"

And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said,

For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules:

A vision appeared to Paul during the night: A Macedonian man was standing there urging him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us!"

After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, a God-fearing woman, listened to us. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house." And she persuaded us.

Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling.

She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation."

and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans."

But Paul said to the police officers, "They had us beaten in public without a proper trial -- even though we are Roman citizens -- and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!"

so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.

When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said, "The Holy Spirit says this: 'This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"

Some of the disciples from Caesarea came along with us too, and brought us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple from the earliest times, with whom we were to stay.

When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us gladly.

The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there.

But so that I may not delay you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace petitioned me both in Jerusalem and here, shouting loudly that he ought not to live any longer.

From there we put out to sea and sailed under the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

We sailed slowly for many days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus. Because the wind prevented us from going any farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.

The local inhabitants showed us extraordinary kindness, for they built a fire and welcomed us all because it had started to rain and was cold.

Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

They also bestowed many honors, and when we were preparing to sail, they gave us all the supplies we needed.

The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.