All of them continued to be stunned and puzzled, and they kept asking one another, "What can this mean?"

"Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and that his tomb is among us to this day.

"Go, stand in the Temple, and keep on telling the people the whole message about this life they can have."

""Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house can you build for me,' declares the Lord, "or what place is there in which I can rest?

The man replied, "How can I unless someone guides me?" So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.

In his humiliation, justice was denied him. Who can describe his descendants? For his life is taken away from the earth."

"No one can stop us from using water to baptize these people who have received the Holy Spirit in the same way that we did, can they?"

Then some men came down from Judea and started to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Law of Moses, you can't be saved."

because we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, and there is no good reason we can give to justify this commotion."

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.

as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. I also received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was going there to tie up those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

At this Paul told him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"

"Since I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I am pleased to present my defense. You can verify for yourself that I went up to worship in Jerusalem no more than twelve days ago.

If I'm guilty and have done something that deserves death, I'm willing to die. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to the emperor!"

"I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, that I can defend myself today against all the accusations of the Jewish leaders,

Indeed, the king knows about these things, and I can speak to him freely. For I'm certain that none of these things has escaped his notice, since this wasn't done in a corner.

Agrippa asked Paul, "Can you so quickly persuade me to become a Christian?"

For this people's minds have become stupid, and their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes so that they may never see with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn and let me heal them."'