All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.'

They brought forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

Then Peter started speaking: "I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, "What does this foolish babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods." (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?