For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are distant, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

When the Council heard this, they became furious and wanted to kill them.

You don't want to kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?'

Everyone from the least to the greatest paid close attention to him, saying, "This is what we call the great power of God!"

He is here with authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call on your name."

Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it."

I also heard a voice telling me, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it.'

They began to call Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, because he was the main speaker.

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jewish leaders gathered together, attacked Paul, and brought him before the judge's seat.

Paul was about to speak when Gallio admonished the Jewish leaders, "If there were some misdemeanor or crime involved, it would be reasonable to put up with you Jews.

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.

The crowd was trying to kill Paul when a report reached the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

The crowd of people kept following him and shouting, "Kill him!"

So now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.'

Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."

However, I admit to you that in accordance with the Way, which they call a heresy, I worship the God of our ancestors and believe in everything written in the Law and the Prophets.

and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road.

For this reason the Jewish leaders grabbed me in the Temple and kept trying to kill me.

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners to keep them from swimming ashore and escaping,