"We strictly forbade you," he said, "to teach on this authority, and here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and propose to hold us responsible for this man's death!"

They even made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held a celebration over what their own hands had made.

But Barnabas got hold of him and introduced him to the apostles, and he told them how on his journey he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how boldly he had spoken for the cause of Jesus at Damascus.

But as some of them were obstinate and refused to believe, finding fault with the Way before the people, he left them, and withdrew the disciples, and held daily discussions in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

This came to be known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, Greeks as well as Jews, and great awe came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus came to be held in high honor.

For the Sadducees hold that there is no resurrection and that there are no angels or spirits, while the Pharisees believe in all three.

and I have the same hope in God that they themselves hold, that there is to be a resurrection of the upright and the wicked.

Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the boat and let it drift away.