For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

"Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"

A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

To them Peter said, "You know yourselves it is illegal for a Jew to join or accost anyone belonging to another nation; but God has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean,

Also I heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia the Jews without exception rose against Paul and brought him up before the tribunal,

Paul was just on the point of opening his lips to reply, when Gallio said to the Jews, "If it had been a misdemeanour or wicked crime, there would be some reason in me listening to you,O Jews.

Then all [the Greeks] caught hold of Sosthenes the president of the synagogue and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

They were attempting to kill him, when word reached the commander of the garrison that the whole of Jerusalem was in confusion.

Now you and the Sanhedrin must inform the commander that you propose to investigate this case in detail, so that he may have Paul brought down to you. We will be all ready to kill him on the way down."

I certainly admit to you that I worship our fathers' God according to the methods of what they call a 'sect'; but I believe all that is written in the Law and in the prophets,

Now the soldiers resolved to kill the prisoners, in case any of them swam off and escaped;