"Go and take your stand in the temple square and continue to tell the people the message of this new life."

So they obeyed, and about the break of day they went into the temple square and began to teach. The high priest and his party arrived and called a meeting of the council and the whole senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have the men brought in.

When the military commander of the temple square and the high priest heard this, they were utterly at a loss to know how this might turn out.

But somebody came by and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the temple square, teaching the people."

and not for a single day did they stop teaching in the temple square and in private houses the good news of Jesus the Christ.

But as the owners saw that the hope of their profit-making was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square, before the authorities,

But this enraged the Jews; so they got together some wicked loafers about the public square, formed a mob, and set the town in an uproar.

So he kept up his discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the pagans who were worshiping there, and also day by day in the public square with any who chanced to be there.

For in the days gone by Theudas appeared, claiming that he was a man of importance, and a considerable number of men, about four hundred, espoused his cause, but he was slain and all his followers were dispersed and as a party annihilated.

This is what God promised: 'His descendants will be strangers living in a foreign land, and its people will enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.'

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

which contained all kinds of four-footed animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

Then Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and all at once a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

"I was praying in the town of Joppa, and while I was praying I fell in a trance and had a vision. I saw something like a great sheet coming down out of the sky, lowered by the four comers; and it came right down to me.

With fixed eyes I kept looking at it and saw all kinds of four-footed animals, wild beasts, reptiles, and wild birds.

He had him seized and put into prison, and turned him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, planning after the Passover to bring him out again to the people.

and gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. And after that He gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

He had four unmarried daughters who were prophetesses.

Now you must do just what we tell you. We have here four men who are under a vow.

Are you not the Egyptian who sometime ago raised a mob of four thousand cut-throats and led them out into the desert?"

Since they were afraid of our going on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and kept wishing for daylight to come.