until the day He was taken up, after He had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen.

After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took Him out of their sight.

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”

During these days Peter stood up among the brothers—the number of people who were together was about 120—and said:

beginning from the baptism of John until the day He was taken up from us—from among these, it is necessary that one become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

But Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them: “Men of Judah and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you and pay attention to my words.

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

God raised Him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.

Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple complex at the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon.

But Peter said, “I don’t have silver or gold, but what I have, I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!”

Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong.

So he jumped up, stood, and started to walk, and he entered the temple complex with them—walking, leaping, and praising God.

Moses said:

The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He will say to you.

God raised up His Servant and sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

The young men got up, wrapped his body, carried him out, and buried him.

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had murdered by hanging Him on a tree.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

A Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

Not long ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about 400 men rallied to him. He was killed, and all his partisans were dispersed and came to nothing.

After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and attracted a following. That man also perished, and all his partisans were scattered.

Then the Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, “It would not be right for us to give up preaching about God to handle financial matters.

But they were unable to stand up against his wisdom and the Spirit by whom he was speaking.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, dragged him off, and took him to the Sanhedrin.

The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

“This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers.

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him away, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?

No, you took up the tent of Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship.
So I will deport you beyond Babylon!

An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the desert road.)

So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem

When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.

“But get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

Then Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

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

At once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.

So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, being built up and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, and it increased in numbers.

Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed,” and immediately he got up.

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down, prayed, and turning toward the body said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.

He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.

Looking intently at him, he became afraid and said, “What is it, lord?”

The angel told him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have come up as a memorial offering before God.

The next day, as they were traveling and nearing the city, Peter went up to pray on the housetop about noon.

Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”

This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into heaven.

Get up, go downstairs, and accompany them with no doubts at all, because I have sent them.”

Peter then invited them in and gave them lodging.

The next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went with him.

But Peter helped him up and said, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

God raised up this man on the third day and permitted Him to be seen,

When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who stressed circumcision argued with him,

Then I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat!’

“Now this happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into heaven.

Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him up and said, “Quick, get up!” Then the chains fell off his wrists.

Then Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said: “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen!

And for about 40 years He put up with them in the wilderness;

After removing him, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man loyal to Me, who will carry out all My will.’

and He appeared for many days to those who came with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.

God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm:

You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father.

But the One God raised up did not decay.

But the Jews incited the prominent women, who worshiped God, and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.

Paul said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” And he jumped up and started to walk around.

After the disciples surrounded him, he got up and went into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.

But some of the believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses!”

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

After these things I will return
and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
I will rebuild its ruins
and set it up again,

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.

He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had believed God with his entire household.

The Jews stirred up the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.

As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of a crime or of moral evil, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews.

On landing at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church and went down to Antioch.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a united cry went up from all of them for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them.

“And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

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

After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

As the seven days were about to end, the Jews from Asia saw him in the temple complex, stirred up the whole crowd, and seized him,

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.

As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.

Then the commander came up, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.

He continued, “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and educated according to the strict view of our patriarchal law. Being zealous for God, just as all of you are today,

“Then I said, ‘What should I do, Lord?’

“And the Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about everything that is assigned for you to do.’

came and stood by me and said, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight.’ And in that very hour I looked up and saw him.

And now, why delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’

They listened to him up to this word. Then they raised their voices, shouting, “Wipe this person off the earth—it’s a disgrace for him to live!”

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party got up and argued vehemently: “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

You are able to determine that it is no more than 12 days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.

Three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Then Festus, wanting to do a favor for the Jews, replied to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be tried before me on these charges?”

If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

I answered them that it’s not the Romans’ custom to give any man up before the accused confronts the accusers face to face and has an opportunity to give a defense concerning the charges.

Concerning him, the accusers stood up and brought no charge of the sort I was expecting.

I actually did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the saints in prison, since I had received authority for that from the chief priests. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.

But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and of what I will reveal to you.

So the king, the governor, Bernice, and those sitting with them got up,