This fact was well known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that the piece of land came to be called in their language Akeldamach, the bloody field.)

when suddenly there came from the sky a sound like a violent blast of wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

As they were talking in this way to the people, the high priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came up to them,

About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had happened.

She instantly fell down at his feet and expired. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.

But the attendants who went for them could not find them in the jail, and they came back and reported,

Someone came over and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the Temple, teaching the people!"

and Jacob came down to Egypt. There he and our forefathers died,

The next day, he came across two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. He said to them, 'You are brothers. Why should you injure each other?'

for with loud cries foul spirits came out of many who had been possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame people were cured.

When they came, they prayed that the Samaritans might receive the holy Spirit,

As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"

When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord hurried Philip away, and the eunuch saw nothing more of him. Full of joy, he went on with his journey,

Everyone was astonished, and said, "Is not he the man who made such havoc of the people in Jerusalem who call upon that name, and who came here especially for the purpose of arresting such persons and taking them before the high priests?"

This became known all over Joppa, and many came to believe in the Lord.

So it came about that Peter stayed for some time in Joppa, at the house of a tanner named Simon.

And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it!"

The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean."

When Peter actually came in, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and made obeisance to him.

That was why, when I was sent for, I came without any hesitation. And now I want to ask why you sent for me."

"I was praying in the town of Joppa, and while in a trance I had a vision. Something like a great sheet came down out of the sky, lowered by its four corners. It came right down to me,

The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

for he was an excellent man, full of the holy Spirit and faith. So a considerable number of people came over to the Lord.

and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians.

About that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch,

They passed the first guard and then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened to them of itself, and they passed out and went along one street, when suddenly the angel left him.

Then Peter came to himself, and he said, "Now I am certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and all that the Jewish people were expecting."

When he knocked at the outer door, a maid named Rhoda came to answer it,

But when morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.

Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came before him in a body, and after winning over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended upon the king's dominions for its food supply.

They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, and there they came across a Jewish magician and false prophet named Barjesus.

The priest of the temple of Zeus that stood at the entrance to the town came with crowds of people to the gates, bringing bulls and garlands, meaning to offer sacrifice to them.

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.

and they passed Mysia and came down to Troas.

She did this for a number of days, until Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" And it came out instantly.

and came and conciliated them, and took them out of the jail, and begged them to leave the town.

But when the Jews at Thessalonica found out that God's message had been delivered at Berea by Paul, they came there too, to excite and stir up the populace.

The men who went with Paul took him all the way to Athens, and came back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin him as soon as possible.

A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, skilful in the use of the Scriptures.

and when Paul laid his hands on them, the holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in foreign tongues and with prophetic inspiration.

This came to be known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, Greeks as well as Jews, and great awe came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus came to be held in high honor.

When they came, he said to them, "You know well enough how I lived among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,

We spent a number of days there, and in the course of them a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "

On the next day we went with Paul to see James, and all the elders came in.

Then the colonel came up and seized him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains, and then inquired who he was and what he had been doing.

came to see me, and standing by my side, said to me, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' Then instantly I regained my sight and looked at him,

Then the colonel came to Paul and said, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.

But Paul's nephew heard of the plot, and he came and got into the barracks, and told Paul.

This man had been seized by the Jews and they were just going to kill him when I came upon them with my men and rescued him, as I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they presented their case against Paul before the governor.

Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus.

When he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made a number of serious charges against him, which they could not substantiate.

Some time after, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea on a state visit to Festus,

So they came back here with me and the next day without losing any time I took my place in the judge's chair and ordered the man brought in.

So the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and went into the audience-room attended by officers and the leading citizens of the town, and at the command of Festus Paul was brought in.

When daylight came they could not recognize the coast, but they saw a bay with a beach and determined to run the ship ashore there if possible.

After that, the other sick people on the island came and were cured.

The brothers there had had news of our coming, and came as far as Appius' Forum and Three Taverns to meet us, and when Paul saw them he thanked God and was greatly encouraged.

Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.

So they fixed a day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying, and from morning till night he explained to them the Kingdom of God and gave his testimony, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

So he stayed for two full years in rented lodgings of his own, and welcomed everybody who came to see him,