until the day when through the holy Spirit he gave the apostles he had chosen their instructions, and was taken up to heaven.

As he said this, he was caught up before their eyes and a cloud took him up from their sight.

and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

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

(This man bought a piece of land with the money paid him for his treachery, and his body swelled up and burst open in the middle and all his vitals poured out.

from his baptism by John to the time when he was caught up from us, must join us as a witness to his resurrection."

Then Peter stood up with the eleven around him, and raising his voice addressed them. "Men of Judea," he said, "and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and pay attention to what I say.

But God set aside the pain of death and raised him up, for death could not control him.

"For David did not go up to heaven, but he said, 'The Lord said to my lord, Sit at my right hand,

Peter and John were on their way up to the Temple for the three o'clock hour of prayer,

And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and his feet and ankles immediately became strong,

Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, as he raised me up. You must listen to everything that he tells you.

As they were talking in this way to the people, the high priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came up to them,

They arrested them, and as it was already evening, they shut them up until next morning.

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of him,

The younger men got up and wrapping his body up carried it out and buried it.

"We found the prison securely locked up, with the sentries on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one inside."

Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

We and the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him are witnesses to these things."

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law highly regarded by all the people, got up in the council and ordered the men to be removed for a while,

So the Twelve called in the whole body of disciples and said to them, "It is not desirable that we should give up preaching the word of God to keep accounts.

When he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight, and when he went up to see what it was, the voice of the Lord said,

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

But he, full of the holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

Then falling on his knees, he cried out, "Lord, do not lay this sin up against them!" With these words he fell asleep.

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south, by the road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza." (The town is now deserted.)

So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a member of the court of Candace, queen of Ethiopia, her chief treasurer, who had come up to Jerusalem to worship,

Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and stay by that car."

Philip ran up and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he said to him, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

"But get up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you ought to do."

When he got up from the ground and opened his eyes he could see nothing. They had to take him by the hand and lead him into Damascus,

The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called the Straight Street, and ask at the house of Judas for a man named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is there praying.

Something like scales immediately dropped from his eyes, and his sight was restored, and he got up and was baptized,

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you! Get up, and make your bed!" And he got up immediately.

Peter went with them at once. When he arrived, they took him up to the room and all the widows stood around him crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made when she was still with them.

But Peter put them all out of the room. Then he knelt down and prayed, and then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, stand up!" She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.

He stared at him in terror, and said, "What is it, sir?" "Your prayers and charities," the angel answered, "have gone up and been remembered before God.

The next day, while they were still on their way, and were just getting near the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray.

And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it!"

This happened three times; then the thing was taken right up into the sky.

Get up and go down, and go with them without any hesitation, for I have sent them."

But Peter lifted him to his feet, and said, "Get up! I am only human myself."

And I heard a voice say to me, 'Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it!'

and one of them named Agabus got up and under the influence of the Spirit revealed the fact that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. This was the famine that occurred in the reign of Claudius.

The disciples determined to make up a contribution, each according to his ability, and send it to the brothers who lived in Judea,

when an angel of the Lord stood at his side, and a light shone in the room, and striking Peter on the side, he woke him, and said to him, "Get up quickly!" The chains dropped from his hands,

There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.

Then Paul got up, and motioning with his hand, said, "Men of Israel, and you who reverence God, listen!

Then he removed him and raised David up to be their king, bearing this testimony to him: 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all that I desire.'

and for many days he appeared to those who had come up to Jerusalem with him from Galilee, and they are now witnesses for him to the people.

and after the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism went away with Paul and Barnabas, and they talked with them, and urged them to rely on the favor of God.

But the Jews stirred up the well-to-do religious women and the leading men of the town, and they started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

But the Jews who refused their message stirred up the heathen and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

said to him loudly, "Stand on your feet!" And he sprang up and began to walk.

But the brothers gathered about him, and he got up and re-entered the town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

This created a disturbance and a serious discussion between Paul and Barnabas and them, and it was agreed that Paul and Barnabas and some others of their number should go up to Jerusalem to confer with the apostles and elders about this question.

But some members of the Pharisees' party who had become believers got up and said that such converts ought to be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses.

After a long discussion, Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose that of you all I should be the one from whose lips the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

" 'Afterward I will return, and rebuild David's fallen dwelling. I will rebuild its very ruins, and set it up again,

It woke up the jailer, and when he saw that the doors of the jail were open, he drew his sword and was just going to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

Then he took them up to his house and offered them food, and he and all his household were very happy over their new faith in God.

But when the Jews at Thessalonica found out that God's message had been delivered at Berea by Paul, they came there too, to excite and stir up the populace.

Then Paul stood up in the middle of the council and said, "Men of Athens, from every point of view I see that you are extremely religious.

One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, "Do not be afraid! Go on speaking and do not give up,

When he reached Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and paid his respects to the church, and then went on to Antioch.

But when they saw that he was a Jew, a great shout went up from them all, and they cried for two hours, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!"

where he stayed for three months. Just as he was going to sail for Syria, the Jews made a plot against him, and he made up his mind to return by way of Macedonia.

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting at the window, became very drowsy as Paul's address grew longer and longer, and finally went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.

So we looked up the disciples there and stayed a week with them. Instructed by the Spirit, they warned Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem.

But when our time was up, we left there and went on, and all of them with their wives and children escorted us out of the town. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed;

When we heard this, we and the people there all begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

So as he would not yield, we gave up urging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"

The seven days were almost over when the Jews from Asia caught sight of him in the Temple, and stirred up all the crowd and seized him,

Then the colonel came up and seized him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains, and then inquired who he was and what he had been doing.

"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.

Then I said, 'What am I to do, sir?' The Lord said to me, 'Get up and go into Damascus. There you will be told of all you are destined to do.'

And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.'

But when they had strapped him up, Paul said to the officer who was standing near, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen, and without giving him a trial?"

Paul looked steadily at the council and said, "Brothers, I have done my duty to God with a perfectly clear conscience up to this very day."

So there was a great uproar, and some scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and insisted, "We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose some spirit or angel really spoke to him!"

for it is not more than twelve days ago, as you can easily satisfy yourself, that I went up to worship at Jerusalem,

Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

Then Festus, wishing to gratify the Jews, said to Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there before me on these charges?"

If I am guilty and have done anything that deserves death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is no truth in the charges that these men make against me, no one can give me up to them; I appeal to the emperor."

I told them that it was not the Roman custom to give anybody up until the accused met his accusers face to face and had a chance to defend himself against their accusations.

But when his accusers got up, they did not charge him with any such crimes as I had expected.

The way I lived from my youth up, spending my early life among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is well known to all Jews,

But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me.

When a moderate south wind sprang up, thinking their object was within reach, they weighed anchor, and ran close along the coast of Crete.

For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were visible, and the storm continued to rage, until at last we gave up all hope of being saved.

Then, when they had gone a long time without food, Paul got up among them, and said, "Gentlemen, you ought to have listened to me and not to have sailed from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss.

Even now, I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

So keep up your courage, gentlemen! For I have faith in God that it will be just as I was told.

But they struck a shoal and ran the ship aground. The bow struck and could not be moved, while the stern began to break up under the strain.

They expected to see him swell up or suddenly fall dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

then we weighed anchor and reached Rhegium. A day later, a south wind sprang up and the following day we arrived at Puteoli.