Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the Temple.

And seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could not say anything against them.

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

When the commander of the Temple guards and the high priests heard these words, they were utterly at a loss as to what could have happened to them.

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

"But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.

But Peter told him, "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's free gift with money!

When Saul got up off the ground, he couldn't see anything, even though his eyes were open. So his companions took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

For three days he couldn't see, and he didn't eat or drink anything.

All at once something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.

While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate.

Now in Lystra there was a man sitting down who couldn't use his feet. He had been crippled from birth and had never walked.

Even by saying this, it was all Paul and Barnabas could do to keep the crowds from offering sacrifices to them.

So why do you test God by putting on the disciples' neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?

He had four unmarried daughters who could prophesy.

When he could not be persuaded otherwise, we remained silent except to say, "May the Lord's will be done."

Some of the crowd shouted this and some that. Since the tribune couldn't learn the facts due to the confusion, he ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks.

"The Lord told me, "Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything you are destined to do.' Since I could not see because of the brightness of the light, the men who were with me took me by the hand and led me into Damascus.

came to me. He stood beside me and said, "Brother Saul, receive your sight!' At that moment I could see him.

When Paul arrived, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.

But Paul appealed his case and asked to be held in prison until the decision of his Majesty. So I ordered him to be held in custody until I could send him to the emperor."

Agrippa told Festus, "This man could have been set free if he hadn't appealed to the emperor."

Since the harbor was not a good place to spend the winter, most of the men favored putting out to sea from there on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix and spend the winter there. It is a Cretian harbor that faces southwest and northwest.

When a gentle breeze began to blow from the south, they thought they could make it to Phoenix, so they hoisted anchor and began sailing along the shore of Crete.

The ship was caught so that it couldn't face the wind, and we gave up and were swept along.

When day came, they didn't recognize the land, but they could see a bay with a beach on which they planned to run the ship ashore, if possible.

But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow stuck and couldn't be moved, while the stern was broken to pieces by the force of the waves.

but the centurion wanted to save Paul, so he prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.