Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

They were all amazed and marveled, saying, "Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans?

For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

But so that this spreads no further among the people, let us threaten them, that from now on they do not speak to anyone in this name."

They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

And the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

and put them at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

While you kept it, did not it remain your own? After it was sold, was not it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God."

About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

But the officers who came did not find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

saying, "Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them, and you would be found even to be fighting against God."

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

So the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

until there arose a different king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they would not stay alive.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they did not understand.

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

Did not my hand make all these things?'

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

You received the Law as it was ordained by angels, and did not keep it."

He kneeled down, and shouted out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.

You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he does not open his mouth.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

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

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

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

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

As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to us.

But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."

He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

And Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God does not show favoritism;

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

"Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"

But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, do not call unclean.'

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

When she recognized Peter's voice, she did not open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

When Herod had sought for him, and did not find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

The people shouted, "The voice of a god, and not of a man."

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

and said, "Full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.

Yet he did not leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness."

"Therefore my judgment is that we do not trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

But Paul did not think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and did not go with them to do the work.

When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us."

and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

But Paul shouted loudly, saying, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here."

He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the prominent women.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

that they should seek God, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent;

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I do not want to be a judge of these matters."

Then all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio did not care about any of these things.

He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.

Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute; but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and that she should even be deposed from her magnificence, whom all Asia and the world worships."

When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples did not allow him.

Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

Some therefore shouted one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them did not know why they had come together.

When the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we would not be able to give an account of this commotion."

Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Do not be troubled, for his life is in him."

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Having found the disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The Lord's will be done."

They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.