They then drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Peter said to her, "How could both of you agree in such a way to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door; they will carry you out, too."

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

The high priest asked, "Are these statements true?"

'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

We are witnesses of everything that He did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they murdered Him by hanging Him upon a tree.

Now just as Herod was going to bring him out, that is, the very night before, Peter was fastened with two chains and was sleeping between two soldiers, and the guards were at the door guarding the prison.

When he knocked at the outer door, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it,

and on recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she failed to open the door but ran and told them that Peter was standing at the door.

But Peter, meanwhile, kept on knocking. So they opened the door, and when they saw him, they were astounded.

Now Herod cherished a bitter grudge against the people of Tyre and Sidon. So in a united body they came to meet him, and after winning the favor of Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended for its food supply upon the king's country.

But the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, when they heard it, tore their clothes and rushed into the crowd,

On arriving there they called the church together, and in detail reported to them all that God had done through them as instruments, and how He had opened to the heathen the door of faith.

So, as a dire disturbance and a serious discussion had been created between Paul and Barnabas and them, they decided that Paul and Barnabas and some others from their number should go up to Jerusalem to confer with the apostles and elders about this question.

So we sailed away from Troy and struck a bee line for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis.

When the jailer awoke and saw that the jail doors were open, he drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

The Jews there were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message with all eagerness and carried on a daily study of the Scriptures to see if Paul's message was true.

So he moved into the house of a pagan named Titus Justus, who worshiped the true God; his house was next to the synagogue.

Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on our left, we sailed on for Syria, and put in at Tyre, for the ship was to unload her cargo there.

On finishing the sail from Tyre we landed at Ptolemais. Here we greeted the brothers and spent a day with them.

The Jews also joined in the charges and maintained that they were true.