And He said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own authority.

Therefore being exalted to the right of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you now see and hear.

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

The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His son Jesus, whom you delivered up, denying Him in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go.

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

And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, this one whom you see and know, His name made firm. And the faith which came through Him has given him this perfect soundness before you.

whom Heaven truly needs to receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets since the world began.

if we are examined today on a good work for an infirm man, by what this one has been healed,

This is the Stone which you builders have counted worthless, and He has become the Head of the Corner.

saying, What shall we do to these men? For that indeed a notable miracle has been done by them is plain to all those dwelling in Jerusalem. And we cannot deny it.

who by the mouth of Your servant David has said, "Why did the nations rage and the people imagine vain things?

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

This One God has exalted to be a Ruler and Savior to His right hand in order to give repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

And we are His witnesses of these things. And so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.

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 to go before us, for as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

Has not My hand made all these things?"

and has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him so that he might receive his sight.

And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem.

And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your Name.

And Ananias went and entered into the house. And putting his hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, who appeared to you in the way in which you came, has sent me to you that you might see and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

And the voice spoke to him again the second time, What God has made clean, you do not call common.

And he said to them, You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man, a Jew to keep company with or to come near to one of another nation. But God has shown me not to call any man common or unclean.

But I said, Not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.

But the voice answered me again from the heaven, What God has made clean, you do not call common.

When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance to life to the nations.

And having come to himself, Peter said, Now I know surely that the Lord has sent His angel and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

Of this man's seed God has raised to Israel, according to His promise, a Savior, Jesus;

this God has fulfilled to us their children, raising up Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You."

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "I have set You to be a light of the nations, for salvation to the end of the earth."

Even as Simon has declared how God at the first visited the nations to take out of them a people for His name.

"After this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up,

so those men who are left might seek after the Lord, and all the nations on whom My name has been called, says the Lord, who does all these things."

For Moses from ages past has those in every city proclaiming him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

whom Jason has received. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

And He has made all nations of men of one blood to dwell on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,

because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead.

And you see and hear that, not only at Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, he has perverted a huge crowd, saying that those which are made with hands are no gods.

Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with His own blood.

crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even he brought Greeks into the temple and has polluted this holy place.

And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth.

And there arose a great cry. And the scribes who were on the Pharisees' side arose and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

And calling one of the centurions, Paul said, Bring this young man to the chiliarch, for he has a certain thing to tell him.

So he took him and brought him to the chiliarch and said, Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to say to you.

And having heard these things, Felix put them off, knowing more accurately of the Way, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch has come down, I will examine the things concerning you.

And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause to the king, saying, A certain man has been left in bonds by Felix,

But I had perceived nothing he had committed worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him,

saying, Fear not, Paul! You must stand before Caesar. And behold! God has given you all those who sail with you.

And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, being saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed to live.