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,

When that sound came, a crowd quickly gathered, startled because each one heard the disciples speaking in his own language.

That is why my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, yes, even my body still rests securely in hope.

When the crowd that had gathered heard this, they were pierced to the heart. They asked Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what should we do?"

But many of those who heard their message believed, and the men grew to number about 5,000.

for we cannot stop talking about what we've seen and heard."

When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, you made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

For in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate actually met together with unbelievers and the people of Israel to oppose your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

Now all the believers were one in heart and soul, and nobody called any of his possessions his own. Instead, they shared everything they owned.

Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?

When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear seized everyone who heard about it.

And great fear seized the whole church and everyone else who heard about this.

After the apostles heard this, they went into the Temple at daybreak and began to teach. The high priest and those who were with him arrived, called the Council and all the elders of Israel together, and sent word to the prison to have the men brought in.

When the commander of the Temple guards and the high priests heard these words, they were utterly at a loss as to what could have happened to them.

When the Council heard this, they became furious and wanted to kill them.

So they secretly got some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

For we have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first trip.

I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I've heard their groans, and I've come down to rescue them. Now come, I'll send you to Egypt.'

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaritans had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

You have no part or share in what we're saying, because your heart isn't right with God.

So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your heart's intent may be forgiven you.

So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud. Philip asked, "Do you understand what you're reading?"

He dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?"

Meanwhile, the men who were traveling with Saul were standing speechless, for they heard the voice but didn't see anyone.

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

Everyone who heard him was astonished and said, "This is the man who harassed those who were calling on Jesus' name in Jerusalem, isn't it? Didn't he come here to bring them in chains to the high priests?"

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to him and begged him, "Come here quickly!"

and said, "Cornelius, your prayer has been heard. God has remembered your gifts to the poor,

because they heard them speaking in foreign languages and praising God. Then Peter said,

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles had also accepted the word of God.

I also heard a voice telling me, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it.'

When they heard this, they calmed down, and praised God by saying, "So God has given repentance that leads to life even to gentiles."

When the church in Jerusalem heard this news, they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

About that time, Herod arrested some people who belonged to the church and mistreated them.

When he arrested Peter, Herod put him in prison and turned him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, planning to bring him out to the people after Passover season.

That very night, before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, and guards in front of the door were watching the prisoners.

Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I'm sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting!"

Herod searched for him but didn't find him, so he questioned the guards and ordered them to be executed. Then he left Judea, went down to Caesarea, and stayed there for a while.

Now Herod had been in a violent quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him as a group. After they had won over Blastus, who oversaw security for the king's sleeping quarters, they asked for a peace agreement because their country depended on the king's country for food.

Therefore, at a set time Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the royal seat, and made a speech to them.

Now Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius from Cyrene, Manaen, who grew up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch.

Then God removed Saul and made David their king, about whom he testified, "I have found that David, the son of Jesse, is a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my wishes.'

When the gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord. Meanwhile, all who had been destined to eternal life believed,

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,

God, who knows everyone's heart, showed them he approved by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

Greetings. We have heard that some men, coming from us without instructions from us, have said things to trouble you and have unsettled you.

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple goods, was listening to us. She was a worshiper of God, and the Lord opened her heart to listen carefully to what was being said by Paul.

But Paul shouted in a loud voice, "Don't hurt yourself, because we are all here!"

The guards reported these words to the magistrates, and they became afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

The crowd and the city officials were upset when they heard this,

When they heard about a resurrection of the dead, some began joking about it, while others said, "We will hear you again about this."

Now Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole family. Many Corinthians who heard Paul also believed and were baptized.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained God's way to him more accurately.

and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

He went into the synagogue and spoke there boldly for three months, holding discussions and persuading those who heard him about the kingdom of God.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.

When they heard this, they became furious and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

When we heard this, we and the people who lived there begged Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

At this Paul replied, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I'm ready not only to be tied up in Jerusalem but even to die for the name of the Lord Jesus!"

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.

When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued:

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?'

because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

When the centurion heard this, he went to the tribune and told him, "What are you doing? This man is a Roman citizen!"

But the son of Paul's sister heard about the ambush, so he came and got into the barracks and told Paul.

he said, "I will hear your case when your accusers arrive." Then he ordered Paul to be kept in custody in Herod's palace.

"All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.'

The brothers there heard about us and came as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and felt encouraged.

For this people's minds have become stupid, and their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes so that they may never see with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn and let me heal them."'