"Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

"Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me."

But God raised him from the dead,

that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'

"Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'

Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."

He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.