However, Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold, but I'll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus the Messiah from Nazareth, walk!"

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you. Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

But to keep it from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them never again to speak to anyone in this name."

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

Now all the believers were one in heart and soul, and nobody called any of his possessions his own. Instead, they shared everything they owned.

"But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.

Before this, he had not come on any of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

He asked him for letters to take with him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

Indeed, whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.

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."

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place on you any burden but these essential requirements:

so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.

Then all of them took Sosthenes, the synagogue leader, and began beating him in front of the judge's seat. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.

But I don't place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

I therefore declare to you today that I'm not responsible for the blood of any of you,

They went to the high priests and elders and said, "We have taken a solemn oath not to taste any food before we have killed Paul.

But so as not to detain you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

He ordered the centurion to guard Paul but to let him have some freedom and not to keep any of his friends from caring for his needs.

So they came here with me, and the next day without any delay I sat down in the judge's seat and ordered the man to be brought in.

When his accusers stood up, they didn't accuse him of any of the crimes I was expecting.

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

The next day, we arrived at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly allowing him to visit his friends there and to receive any care he needed.

The Jewish leaders told him, "We haven't received any letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or mentioned anything bad about you.