While he was meeting with them, he ordered them, "Don't leave Jerusalem. Instead, wait for what the Father has promised, about which you heard me speak,

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”

For it has been written in a book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation become desolate, and let no one dwell in it.' And, 'His charge, let another take.'

"So one of the men who has been associated with us all the time that the Lord Jesus moved about among us,

saying, "thou Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show us which of these two thou hast chosen,

To take the place in this apostolic work, which Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper place."

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!"

But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;

Therefore has my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; yea more, my flesh also shall dwell in hope,

thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy by thy presence."

Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day.

he, seeing it before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his flesh seen corruption.

“God has resurrected this Jesus. We are all witnesses of this.

Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear.

For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand

“Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

And you killed the Prince of Life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

By faith in His name, His name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. So the faith that comes through Him has given him this perfect health in front of all of you.

But what God predicted through the mouth of all the prophets—that His Messiah would suffer—He has fulfilled in this way.

and that He may send Jesus, who has been appointed for you as the Messiah.

but must reside in heaven, till the time of the restitution of all things, of which God has spoken from the beginning by the mouth of his holy prophets.

Moses declared, "'The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brethren as He has raised me. In all that He says to you, you must listen to Him.

To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one of you from your wickedness.

if we this day are called upon to answer as to the good deed done to the infirm man, how he has been healed,

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

This Jesus is

the stone rejected by you builders,
which has become the cornerstone.

And salvation is not in any other man, for there is no other name under the heaven, that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.

saying, “What should we do with these men? For an obvious sign, evident to all who live in Jerusalem, has been done through them, and we cannot deny it!

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

(whom Thou hast anointed,) to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had before determined to be done.

Then Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the field?

Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

And Peter said to her; Why has it been agreed with you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of those having buried thy husband are at the door, and they will carry thee out.

The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom ye have slain, having hanged on a cross.

This one God has exalted to his right hand [as] Leader and Savior to grant repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

So in the present case, I warn you, stay away from these men, let them alone. For, if this program or movement has its origin in men, it will go to pieces,

but if it has its origin in God, you can never stop it. It is to be feared that you may find yourselves fighting God."

Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.

For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

and I will sentence the nation that has enslaved them,' God said, 'and afterward they will leave that country and worship me on this spot.'

and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground;

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? God has sent this one to be a ruler and a redeemer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the Bush.

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go on before us! For this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt--we do not know what has happened to him!'

And God turned away, and gave them up to serve the host of the heaven; as has been written in the book of the prophets: Slain victims and sacrifices you have not brought unto me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel.

But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

has not my hand made all these things?

Everyone, from the least to the greatest [in importance], was being impressed by him. They were saying, "This man is being called Great [and has] power from God."

Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria has received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

in his humiliation he was judged, he was taken off: and who shall describe the men of his time? for the land has taken away his life."

In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him so he can regain his sight.”

“Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.

And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name."

So Ananias left and entered the house. Then he placed his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road you were traveling, has sent me so that you can regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

And all who heard him were astounded and said, "Is not this the man who harassed those who called upon this name in Jerusalem, and has come here expressly for the purpose of putting them in chains and taking them back to the high priests?"

And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

He is lodging with a tanner named Simon, who has a house near the sea."

Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your acts of charity have been remembered in God’s sight.

Send therefore to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter; he lodges at the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who when he has come will speak to you.

Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.

Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites,

But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

He has sent His message to the descendants of Israel, by telling them the good news of peace through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all.

ye know; the testimony which has spread through the whole of Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached --

He also ordered us to proclaim to the people and solemnly to testify that this is the One whom God has appointed to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.

saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten with them.

“‘No, Lord!’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

if therefore God has bestow'd the same favour upon them, as on us, after we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I make any opposition to the divine will?

When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, “So God has granted repentance resulting in life even to the Gentiles!”

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from all that the Jewish people expected.”

it is of his posterity that God, pursuant to his promise, has rais'd up Jesus to be the saviour of Israel.

“Brothers, sons of Abraham’s race, and those among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

to you therefore we declare, that the promise which God had made to the fathers, he has now perform'd to us, who are their children, by his having raised up Jesus again.

God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm:

You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father.

Since He raised Him from the dead, never to return to decay, He has spoken in this way, I will grant you the faithful covenant blessings made to David.

And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

Then beware, lest the word which has been spoken by the prophets may come upon you;

For this is what the Lord has commanded us:

I have made you
a light for the Gentiles
to bring salvation
to the ends of the earth.”

This man was listening to Paul speaking, who, having gazed at him, and having seen that he has faith to be healed,

who in past ages has let all Nations proceed in their own ways.

yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy."

God who knows their hearts has granted them a testimonial, by giving them the holy spirit, even as he did to us:

Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.

And to this corresponds the words of the prophet; as has been written,

After these things I will return
and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
I will rebuild its ruins
and set it up again,

in order that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, even all the Gentiles, on whom my name has been called upon them, says the Lord, who doeth these things