to take the place in this apostolic service that Judas left to go to his own place.”

When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place.

God raised up His Servant and sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak God’s message with boldness.

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

For we heard him say that Jesus, this Nazarene, will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

I will judge the nation
that they will serve as slaves, God said.
After this, they will come out
and worship Me in this place.

“Then the Lord said to him:

Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

Heaven is My throne,
and earth My footstool.
What sort of house will you build for Me?
says the Lord,
or what is My resting place?

As Peter was traveling from place to place, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda.

You know the events that took place throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John preached:

Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.

So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what took place through the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he explained to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Report these things to James and the brothers,” he said. Then he departed and went to a different place.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear God’s message.

On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate by the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and spoke to the women gathered there.

And after spending some time there, he set out, traveling through one place after another in the Galatian territory and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. What’s more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has profaned this holy place.”

When he was called in, Tertullus began to accuse him and said: “Since we enjoy great peace because of you, and reforms are taking place for the benefit of this nation by your foresight,

To this very day, I have obtained help that comes from God, and I stand and testify to both small and great, saying nothing else than what the prophets and Moses said would take place—

With yet more difficulty we sailed along the coast and came to a place called Fair Havens near the city of Lasea.

Then, fearing we might run aground in some rocky place, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.

Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.