So they accepted his message and were baptized, and about three thousand persons united with them on that day.

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

Now the apostles and the brothers all over Judea heard that the heathen too had accepted God's message.

Among them was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods from the town of Thyatira, and she stayed to listen to us. She was already a worshiper of God, and the Lord so moved upon her heart that she accepted the message spoken by Paul.