For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

When they had entered Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were there.

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us -- one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us."

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.

Peter looked directly at him (as did John) and said, "Look at us!"

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon's Portico.

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest's family.

After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and discovered that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus.

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

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

Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.

So after Peter and John had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages as they went.

you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.

When Peter realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying.

So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had completed their mission, bringing along with them John Mark.

When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)

Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

But while John was completing his mission, he said repeatedly, 'What do you think I am? I am not he. But look, one is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet!'

Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too,

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

So Paul said, "Into what then were you baptized?" "Into John's baptism," they replied.

Paul said, "John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."