Everyone felt a sense of awe, and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has done this honor to his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go.

Why, all the prophets from Samuel down, who have spoken, have also foretold these days.

They had the apostles brought before them and demanded of them, "By what power or authority have men like you done this?"

They said, "What are we to do with these men? For it is plain to everyone in Jerusalem that an extraordinary wonder has been done by them. We cannot deny that.

for the man on whom this wonder of healing had been done was more than forty years old.

when you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are done by the power of your holy servant Jesus."

When Ananias heard these words he fell down and expired, and everyone who heard them spoken was appalled.

She instantly fell down at his feet and expired. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

and men and women in increasing numbers believed in the Lord and joined them. Signs and wonders in great numbers continued to be done among the people by the apostles,

so that people would carry their sick out into the streets, and lay them down on beds and mats, to have at least Peter's shadow fall on some of them as he went by.

for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down and change the customs that have been handed down to us by Moses."

and Jacob came down to Egypt. There he and our forefathers died,

Seeing one of them being imposed upon, he interfered and defended the man who was being ill treated, striking down the Egyptian.

I have seen all the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and I have come down to save them. So come! I will make you my messenger to Egypt!'

This tent was handed down to our forefathers and they brought it here with them when under Joshua they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them, and it existed until the time of David.

and dragged him out of the city and stoned him, the witnesses throwing down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions.

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south, by the road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza." (The town is now deserted.)

So he ordered the car to stop, and Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell of this man, and the harm he has done to your people in Jerusalem.

but his disciples took him one night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket.

When the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

But Peter put them all out of the room. Then he knelt down and prayed, and then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, stand up!" She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.

The next day, while they were still on their way, and were just getting near the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray.

and saw the sky opened and a thing like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by the four corners,

Get up and go down, and go with them without any hesitation, for I have sent them."

Then Peter went down to see the men, and said to them, "I am the man you are asking for. What is the reason for your coming?"

"I was praying in the town of Joppa, and while in a trance I had a vision. Something like a great sheet came down out of the sky, lowered by its four corners. It came right down to me,

About that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch,

But the angel of the Lord struck him down immediately, because he did not give the honor to God; and he was eaten by worms and died.

Being sent out in this way by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

After that he gave them judges, down to the time of the prophet Samuel.

When they had carried out everything that had been said about him in the Scriptures, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.

The next Sabbath almost all the town gathered to hear God's message.

But the Jews stirred up the well-to-do religious women and the leading men of the town, and they started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

They spent some time there, speaking fearlessly and relying upon the Lord, who bore witness to his gracious message by letting signs and wonders be done by them.

But the people of the town were divided, some siding with the Jews and some with the apostles.

The crowds, seeing what Paul had done, shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"

The priest of the temple of Zeus that stood at the entrance to the town came with crowds of people to the gates, bringing bulls and garlands, meaning to offer sacrifice to them.

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

But the brothers gathered about him, and he got up and re-entered the town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

They proclaimed the good news in that town and made a number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.

And God who knows men's hearts testified for them by giving them the holy Spirit just as he had done to us,

This quieted the whole meeting, and they listened while Barnabas and Paul told of the signs and wonders which God had done among the heathen through them.

For Moses for generations past has had his preachers in every town, and has been read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."

So the delegates went down to Antioch and gathered the congregation together and delivered the letter;

As they traveled on from one town to another, they passed on to the brothers for their observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.

and they passed Mysia and came down to Troas.

From there we went to Philippi, a Roman garrison town, and the principal place in that part of Macedonia. In this town we stayed for some days.

On the Sabbath we went outside the gates, to the bank of the river where we supposed there was a praying place, and we sat down and talked with the women who gathered there.

One of our hearers was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods, from the town of Thyatira. She was a believer in God, and the Lord touched her heart, and led her to accept Paul's teaching.

and brought them before the chief magistrates. "These men," they said, "are Jews, and they are making a great disturbance in our town.

and came and conciliated them, and took them out of the jail, and begged them to leave the town.

After leaving the jail they went to Lydia's house, and saw the brothers and encouraged them. Then they left the town.

This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.

As they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the town magistrates, shouting, "The men who have made trouble all over the world have come here too,

A number of people who had practiced magic brought out their books and burned them publicly. The value of these was estimated and found to be ten thousand dollars.

At last the recorder quieted the mob and said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell down from the sky?

except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me.

With these words, he knelt down with them all and prayed.

But when our time was up, we left there and went on, and all of them with their wives and children escorted us out of the town. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed;

We spent a number of days there, and in the course of them a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

So as he would not yield, we gave up urging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"

Paul greeted them warmly and gave a detailed account of what God had done among the heathen through his efforts.

He immediately got some officers and men and hurried down among them, and when they saw the colonel and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul.

The next day, as he wished to find out the real reason why the Jews denounced him, he had him unbound and ordered the high priests and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.

Paul looked steadily at the council and said, "Brothers, I have done my duty to God with a perfectly clear conscience up to this very day."

As the dispute was becoming violent, the colonel began to be afraid that they would tear Paul in pieces, and ordered the soldiers to go down and get him away from them and bring him into the barracks.

Now you and the council must suggest to the colonel that he should have Paul brought down to you, as you mean to look into his case more carefully, and we will be ready to kill him before he gets down."

"The Jews," he answered, "have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, on the ground that you mean to have a fuller inquiry made into his case.

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they presented their case against Paul before the governor.

Then Felix, who was somewhat well informed about the Way, adjourned the trial, saying to the Jews, "When Lysias, the colonel, comes down here, I will decide your case."

"So have your principal men go down with me," he said, "and present charges against the man, if there is anything wrong with him."

After staying only eight or ten days there, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day took his place in the judge's chair, and ordered Paul brought in.

When he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made a number of serious charges against him, which they could not substantiate.

But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's court, where I ought to be tried. I have done the Jews no wrong, as you can easily see.

If I am guilty and have done anything that deserves death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is no truth in the charges that these men make against me, no one can give me up to them; I appeal to the emperor."

So the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and went into the audience-room attended by officers and the leading citizens of the town, and at the command of Festus Paul was brought in.

I could not find that he had done anything for which he deserved death, but as he appealed to his Majesty I decided to send him to him.

and after leaving the room, in talking the matter over together, they said, "This man has not done anything to deserve death or imprisonment."

and with difficulty coasted along it and reached a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

But very soon a violent wind which they call a Northeaster rushed down from it.

Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.