This plan met the approval of the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, who had been a convert to Judaism.

and rescued him from all his troubles, and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he appointed him governor of Egypt and of his whole household.

As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"

When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord hurried Philip away, and the eunuch saw nothing more of him. Full of joy, he went on with his journey,

while Philip found himself at Ashdod and went on telling the good news in all the towns all the way to Caesarea.

So a day was fixed and on it Herod, dressed in his robes of state, took his seat on his throne in the theater, and made them an address,

but they went on from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue there and took seats.

Toward the end of his career, John said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he! No! Someone is coming after me, the shoes on whose feet I am not fit to untie!'

But the disciples continued to be full of joy and of the holy Spirit.

and there they went on preaching the good news.

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 told their message in Perga, then went on to Attalia,

that you avoid whatever has been sacrificed to idols, the tasting of blood and of the meat of animals that have been strangled, and immorality. Keep yourselves free from these things and you will get on well. Goodbye."

When he reached Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and paid his respects to the church, and then went on to Antioch.

This went on for two years, so that everyone who lived in Asia, Greeks as well as Jews, heard the Lord's message.

So the Lord's message went on growing wonderfully in influence and power.

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?

After traveling through those districts and giving the people a great deal of encouragement, he went on to Greece

They went on to Troas and waited for us there,

So when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went on to Mitylene.

Sailing from there, we arrived off Chios on the following day. On the next we crossed to Samos, and on the next we reached Miletus.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

There we found a ship bound for Phoenicia, and we went on board and sailed on it.

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;

then we bade one another goodbye, and we went on board the ship, and they went home.

The next day we left there and went on to Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip the missionary, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him.

We went on board an Adramyttian ship bound for the ports of Asia, and put to sea. We had a Macedonian from Thessalonica, named Aristarchus, with us.

and on the next, they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands.

There we found some of the brothers, and they urged us to spend a week with them. Then we went on to Rome.