So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language:

This is how God fulfilled what he had predicted through the voice of all the prophets that his Messiah would suffer.

If we are being questioned today for a good deed done for someone who was sick or to learn how this man was healed,

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

The man replied, "How can I unless someone guides me?" So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell how much evil this man has done to your saints in Jerusalem.

since I'm going to show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake."

Barnabas, however, introduced Saul to the apostles, telling them how on the road Saul had seen the Lord, who had spoken to him, and how courageously he had spoken in the name of Jesus in Damascus.

He told them, "You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with unbelievers. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,

Then he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his home and saying, "Send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter.

He will discuss with you how you and your entire household will be saved.'

When he saw how this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter, too. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet, and then he told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He added, "Tell this to James and the brothers." Then he left and went somewhere else.

When they arrived, they called the church together and told them everything that God had done with them and how he had opened a door so that gentiles would believe.

Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

When the people read it, they were pleased with how the letter encouraged them.

A few days later, Paul told Barnabas, "Let's go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they're doing."

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, and tied his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, "The Holy Spirit says, "This is how the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. Then they will hand him over to the gentiles.'"

When they heard about it, they praised God and told him, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and all of them are zealous for the Law.

At this Paul told him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"

I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters, so I asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there for these things.

All the Jews know how I lived from the earliest days of my youth with my own people and in Jerusalem.

"That is how I happened to be traveling to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests.