In my first volume, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning

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."

They were all devoting themselves with one mind to prayer, with the women and Mary, Jesus' mother, and his brothers.

"Brothers, the prediction of the Scriptures had to come true that the holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide for the men that arrested Jesus??17 for he was one of our number and a share in this ministry of ours fell to his lot."

"So one of the men who has been associated with us all the time that the Lord Jesus moved about among us,

"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

He is Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and to whose resurrection we are all witnesses.

"Therefore the whole nation of Israel must understand that God has declared this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,

But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!"

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has done this honor to his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go.

and he will send Jesus, your destined Christ.

greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and declaring that in the case of Jesus there had been a resurrection from the dead.

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.

They were amazed to see how outspoken Peter and John were, and to find that they were uneducated men with no advantages. They recognized them as companions of Jesus,

So they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all about the name of Jesus.

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,

when you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are done by the power of your holy servant Jesus."

The apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and God's favor rested richly upon them.

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

They were convinced by him, and they called the apostles in and had them flogged, and warned them not to speak about the name of Jesus, and then let them go.

So they went out from before the council, glad that they had been thought worthy to bear disgrace for the sake of Jesus,

and they did not for a single day stop teaching and preaching in the Temple and in private houses the good news of Jesus, the Christ.

for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down and change the customs that have been handed down to us by Moses."

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

As they stoned Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism.

for it had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Then Philip began, and starting from this passage, he told him the good news about Jesus.

"Who are you, sir?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," said the voice.

Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

and began at once to declare in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God.

But Saul grew more and more powerful, and bewildered the Jews who lived in Damascus by his proofs that Jesus was the Christ.

But Barnabas got hold of him and introduced him to the apostles, and he told them how on his journey he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how boldly he had spoken for the cause of Jesus at Damascus.

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

He has sent his message to Israel's descendants, and made the good news of peace known to them through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of us all.

about Jesus of Nazareth, and how God endowed him with the power of the holy Spirit, and he went about doing good and curing all who were in the power of the devil, because God was with him.

And he directed that they should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on there a few days.

So if God had given them the same gift that we received when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, to be able to interfere with God?"

There were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them, however, who when they reached Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, and told them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

It is from his descendants that God has brought to Israel as he promised to do, a savior in Jesus,

that God has fulfilled to us, their children, the promise that he made to our forefathers, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the second psalm, You are my Son! Today I have become your Father!'

Why, we believe that it is by the mercy of the Lord Jesus that we are saved just as they are."

who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and when they reached Mysia they tried to get into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit it,

She did this for a number of days, until Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" And it came out instantly.

"Believe in the Lord Jesus," they said, "and you and your household will be saved!"

explaining them and showing that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "Jesus," he said, "of whom I am telling you, is the Christ!"

and Jason has taken them in. They all disobey the emperor's decrees, and claim that someone else called Jesus is king."

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some of them said, "What is this rag-picker trying to make out?" Others said, "He seems to be preaching some foreign deities." This was because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

By the time Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed in preaching the message, emphatically assuring the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

He had had some instruction about the Way of the Lord, and he talked with burning zeal and taught painstakingly about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

for he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, and showed from the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

"John's baptism was a baptism in token of repentance," said Paul, "and he told the people to believe in him who was to follow him, that is, in Jesus."

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus,

Some Jews who went from place to place casting out demons tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in the cases of people who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

But the evil spirit answered, "I know Jesus, and I know of Paul, but who are you?"

This came to be known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, Greeks as well as Jews, and great awe came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus came to be held in high honor.

but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

I answered, 'Who are you, sir?' 'I am Jesus of Nazareth,' he said, 'whom you are persecuting.'

Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus.

Their differences with him were about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died but who Paul said was alive.

I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

'Who are you, sir?' said I. The Lord said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

So they fixed a day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying, and from morning till night he explained to them the Kingdom of God and gave his testimony, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

preaching the Kingdom of God to them and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ openly and unhindered.