when suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a violent blast of wind, which filled the whole house where they were seated.

When Ananias heard this, he fell down and expired. (Great awe came over all who heard of it.)

Instantly she fell down at their feet and expired. The younger men came in to find her dead; they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Great awe came over the whole church and over all who heard about this.

But as the attendants did not find them when they got to the prison, they came back to report,

However, someone came and reported to them, "Here are the very men you put in prison, standing in the temple and teaching the people!"

Now a famine came over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, attended with great misery, so that our ancestors could not find provender.

Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"

For unclean spirits came screaming and shrieking out of many who had been possessed, and many paralytics and lame people were healed.

who came down and prayed that the Samaritans might receive the holy Spirit.

As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

When they came up from the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch lost sight of him. He went on his way rejoicing,

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

But their plot came to the ears of Saul, and, although they kept watch on the gates day and night in order to make away with him,

Peter moved here and there among them all, and it happened that in the course of his tours he came down to visit the saints who stayed at Lydda.

He became very hungry and longed for some food. But as they were getting the meal ready, a trance came over him.

A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

So when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party fell foul of him.

"I was in the town of Joppa at prayer," he said, "and in a trance I saw a vision ??a vessel coming down like a huge sheet lowered from heaven by the four corners. It came down to me,

When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

During these days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch,

When they had passed the first guard and the second they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; they passed out, and after they had gone through one street, the angel immediately left him.

Then Peter came to his senses and said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

When he knocked at the door of the porch, a maidservant called Rhoda came to answer it;

Then they came through Pisidia to Pamphylia,

But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

He also came down to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timotheus, the son of a believing Jewess and a Greek father.

We then came to the Roman colony of Philippi, which is the foremost town of the district of Macedonia. In this town we spent some days.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

There he came across a Jew called Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, as Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul accosted them,

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

There came to Ephesus a Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria, a man of culture, strong in his knowledge of the scriptures.

It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples,

and after Paul laid his hands on them the holy Spirit came upon them, they spoke with 'tongues' and prophesied.

people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

This came to the ears of all the inhabitants of Ephesus, Jews as well as Greeks; awe fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

After passing through the districts of Macedonia and encouraging the people at length, he came to Greece,

When they came to him, he said, "You know quite well how I lived among you all the time ever since I set foot in Asia,

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet called Agabus came down from Judaea.

He came to us, took Paul's girdle and bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Here is the word of the holy Spirit: 'So shall the Jews bind the owner of this girdle at Jerusalem and hand him over to the Gentiles'."

Then the commander came up and seized him; he ordered him to be bound with a couple of chains, and asked "Who is he?" and "What has he done?"

As he gave permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people. A great hush came over them, and he addressed them as follows in Hebrew.

came to me and standing beside me said, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' The same moment I regained my sight and looked up at him.

This man had been seized by the Jews and was on the point of being murdered by them, when I came on them with the troops and rescued him, as I had ascertained that he was a Roman citizen.

Five days later down came the high priest Ananias with some elders and a barrister called Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

After a lapse of several years I came up with alms and offerings for my nation,

Some days had passed, when king Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

Well, the day after they came here along with me, I took my seat on the tribunal without any loss of time. I ordered the man to be brought in,

then, sailing over the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we came to Myra in Lycia.

When this had happened, the rest of the sick folk in the island also came and got cured;

where we came across some of the brotherhood, who invited us to stay a week with them. In this way we reached Rome.

As the local brothers had heard about us, they came out to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae, and when Paul saw them he thanked God and took courage.

So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

For two full years he remained in his private lodging, welcoming anyone who came to visit him;