It was at that time that Peter got up among the brothers??here were about a hundred and twenty persons present??nd said,

"Brothers, one may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his grave is here among us to this very day.

if it is for a benefit conferred upon a helpless man, and as to how he was cured, that we are called to account here today,

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

For they have assembled here in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

Someone came over and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the Temple, teaching the people!"

"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!"

This tent was handed down to our forefathers and they brought it here with them when under Joshua they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them, and it existed until the time of David.

As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"

He is here with authority to arrest everyone who calls upon your name."

Everyone was astonished, and said, "Is not he the man who made such havoc of the people in Jerusalem who call upon that name, and who came here especially for the purpose of arresting such persons and taking them before the high priests?"

So send to Joppa and invite Simon who is called Peter to come here. He is staying at the house of a tanner named Simon, close to the sea.'

So I sent for you immediately, and you have very kindly come. Now we are all here in God's presence, to hear everything that the Lord has instructed you to say."

and the Spirit told me not to hesitate to go with them. These six brothers here also went with me, and we went to the man's house.

But Paul shouted out, "Do not do yourself any harm! We are all here!"

But Paul said to them, "They had us beaten in public without giving us a trial, and put us in jail, although we are Roman citizens! And now are they going to dismiss us secretly? By no means! Have them come here themselves and take us out!"

As they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the town magistrates, shouting, "The men who have made trouble all over the world have come here too,

For you have brought these men here, though they have not been guilty of disloyalty nor uttered any blasphemy against our goddess.

I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there,

So do what we tell you. We have four men here who are under a vow.

"I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

who ought to be here before you and to present their charges if they have any to make against me.

Or let these men themselves tell what they found wrong in me when I appeared before the council??21 unless it was the one thing I shouted out as I stood among them??It is on the question of the resurrection of the dead that I am here on trial before you today!' "

Then Felix, who was somewhat well informed about the Way, adjourned the trial, saying to the Jews, "When Lysias, the colonel, comes down here, I will decide your case."

and as they stayed there several days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "who was left in prison by Felix,

So they came back here with me and the next day without losing any time I took my place in the judge's chair and ordered the man brought in.

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present, you see here the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me both at Jerusalem and here, clamoring that he ought not to live any longer.

Even now it is for my hope in the promise that God made to our forefathers that I stand here on trial,

To this day I have had God's help and I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a thing to what Moses and the prophets declared would happen,

"We have had no letters about you from Judea," they answered, "and none of the brothers who have come here has reported or said anything against you.