up to the day when he was taken up to heaven after giving orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

After he had suffered, he had shown himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during a period of 40 days and telling them about the kingdom of God.

After saying this, Jesus was taken up while those who had gathered together were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

After he was arrested according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and killed him using the hands of lawless men.

After all, David did not go up to heaven, but he said, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

After they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and told them everything the high priests and the elders had said.

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

After an interval of about three hours, Ananias' wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

After the apostles heard this, they went into the Temple at daybreak and began to teach. The high priest and those who were with him arrived, called the Council and all the elders of Israel together, and sent word to the prison to have the men brought in.

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus to life after you killed him by hanging him on a tree.

After that man, at the time of the census, Judas the Galilean appeared and got people to follow him. He, too, died, and all his followers were scattered.

So they were convinced by him. After calling in the apostles and beating them, they again ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus and let them go.

So he left the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. Then after the death of his father, God had him move to this country where you now live.

God gave him no property here, not even a foot of land, yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

"After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" After he had said this, he died.

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

Even Simon believed, and after he was baptized he became devoted to Philip. He was amazed to see the signs and great miracles that were happening.

After they had given their testimony and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, continuing to proclaim the good news in many Samaritan villages.

He got up and was baptized, and after eating some food, he felt strong again. For several days he stayed with the disciples in Damascus.

After several days had gone by, the Jewish leaders plotted to murder Saul,

At that time, she got sick and died. After they had washed her, they laid her in an upstairs room.

Peter made them all go outside. After kneeling down, he prayed, turned to the body, and said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached.

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

When he arrested Peter, Herod put him in prison and turned him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, planning to bring him out to the people after Passover season.

Now Herod had been in a violent quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him as a group. After they had won over Blastus, who oversaw security for the king's sleeping quarters, they asked for a peace agreement because their country depended on the king's country for food.

After they had been sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went to Seleucia and from there sailed to Cyprus.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders asked them, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

After he had put up with them for 40 years in the wilderness,

"After that, he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel. When they demanded a king, God gave them Kish's son Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years.

Then God removed Saul and made David their king, about whom he testified, "I have found that David, the son of Jesse, is a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my wishes.'

When John was finishing his work, he said, "Who do you think I am? I'm not the Messiah. No, but he is coming after me, and I'm not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet.'

Now David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.

After a lengthy debate, Peter stood up and told them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days, God chose me to be the one among you through whom the gentiles would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

After Paul and Barnabas had finished speaking, James responded, "Brothers, listen to me:

""After this, I will come back and set up David's fallen tent again. I will restore its ruined places and set it up again

After all, Moses has had people to proclaim him in every city for generations, and on every Sabbath his books are read aloud in the synagogues."

After staying there for some time, they were sent back with a greeting from the brothers to those who had sent them.

while Paul chose Silas and left after the brothers had entrusted him to the grace of the Lord.

After giving them a severe beating, they threw them in jail and ordered the jailer to keep them under tight security.

but after they had gotten a bond from Jason and the others, they let them go.

The men who escorted Paul took him all the way to Athens and, after receiving instructions to have Silas and Timothy join him as soon as possible, they left.

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

After staying there for quite a while longer, Paul said goodbye to the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut in Cenchrea, since he was under a vow.

After spending some time there, he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Then Paul said, "John baptized when they repented, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

After these things had happened, Paul decided to go through Macedonia and Achaia and then to go on to Jerusalem. "After I have gone there," he told them, "I must also see Rome."

After saying this, he dismissed the assembly.

After the Festival of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.

We sailed from there and on the following day arrived off Chios. The next day, we crossed over to Samos and stayed at Trogyllium. The day after that, we came to Miletus.

except that in town after town the Holy Spirit assures me that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.

After we had been there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus arrived from Judea.

After greeting them, Paul related one by one the things that God had done among the gentiles through his ministry.

Paul answered, "I didn't realize, brothers, that he is the high priest. After all, it is written, "You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.'"

After he said that, an angry quarrel broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided,

After reading the letter, the governor asked which province Paul was from. On learning that he was from Cilicia,

After many years, I have come back to my people to bring gifts for the poor and to offer sacrifices.

After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. Since Felix wanted to do the Jews a favor, he left Paul in prison.

Three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to welcome Festus.

I have nothing reliable to write our Sovereign about him, so I have brought him to all of you, and especially to you, King Agrippa, so that I will have something to write after he is cross-examined.

Instead, I first told the people in Damascus and Jerusalem, then all the people in Judea and after that the gentiles to repent, turn to God, and perform deeds that are consistent with such repentance.

After boarding a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to the ports on the coast of Asia, we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, went with us.

After putting out from there, we sailed on the sheltered side of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

After they had gone a long time without food, Paul stood among his shipmates and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete. You would have avoided this hardship and damage.

After taking soundings, they found the depth to be twenty fathoms. A little later, they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms.

After he said this, he took some bread, thanked God in front of everyone, broke it, and began to eat.

After they had eaten all they wanted, they began to lighten the ship by dumping its cargo of wheat into the sea.

They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

After that had happened, the rest of the sick people on the island went to him and were healed.

There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. After this, we arrived in Rome.