because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit a few days from now."

When they came into the city, these men went to the upstairs room where they had been staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

beginning when he was baptized by John until the day he was taken up from us. Therefore, someone like this must become a witness with us to his resurrection."

One afternoon, Peter and John were on their way to the Temple for the three o'clock prayer time.

When he saw that Peter and John were about to go into the Temple, he asked them to give him something.

Peter, along with John, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Look at us!"

While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people came running to them in what was called "Solomon's Colonnade". They were dumbfounded.

They were greatly disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people and announcing that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead.

with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the rest of the high priest's family.

They made Peter and John stand in front of them and began asking, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

Now when the Jewish leaders saw the boldness of Peter and John and found out that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and realized that they had been with Jesus.

So they called Peter and John back in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God,

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

After they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and told them everything the high priests and the elders had said.

None of the others dared join them, although the rest of the people continued to hold them in high regard.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaritans had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they all were afraid of him because they wouldn't believe he was a disciple.

You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached.

Then I remembered what the Lord had said: "John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

He even had James, the brother of John, killed with a sword.

When Peter realized what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where a large number of people had gathered and were praying.

When Barnabas and Saul had fulfilled their mission, they returned from Jerusalem, bringing with them John who was also called Mark.

Arriving in Salamis, they began to preach God's word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John to help them.

Then Paul and his men set sail from Paphos and arrived in Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them and went back to Jerusalem.

Before Jesus' appearance, John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people in Israel.

When John was finishing his work, he said, "Who do you think I am? I'm not the Messiah. No, but he is coming after me, and I'm not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet.'

Barnabas wanted to take along John, who was called Mark,

The men who escorted Paul took him all the way to Athens and, after receiving instructions to have Silas and Timothy join him as soon as possible, they left.

He had been instructed in the Lord's way, and with spiritual fervor he kept speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only about John's baptism.

He then asked, "Then into what were you baptized?" They answered, "Into John's baptism."

Then Paul said, "John baptized when they repented, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

The people who lived there were unusually kind to us. It had started to rain and was cold, so they started a bonfire and invited us to join them around it.