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."

This was the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will make a prophet rise from among your brothers to teach you, just as he made me rise.'

So God turned his back on them and left them to worship the starry host, just as the Book of the Prophets says, " 'Was it victims and sacrifices that you offered to me, O house of Israel, Those forty years in the desert?

In the desert our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony built like the model Moses had seen, just as he who spoke to him told him to make it.

You stubborn people, with heathen hearts and ears, you are always opposing the holy Spirit, just as your forefathers did!

This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth.

Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died, and they had washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs.

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.

Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

"Can anyone refuse the use of water to baptize these people when they have received the holy Spirit just as we did?"

Just at that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea to find me, reached the house where we were staying,

When I began to speak to them, the holy Spirit fell upon them just as it did upon us at the beginning,

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!'

And God who knows men's hearts testified for them by giving them the holy Spirit just as he had done to us,

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

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.

So they took him and brought him to the council of the Areopagus and said, "May we know just what this new teaching of yours is?

Some of the things you tell us sound strange to us, and we want to know just what they mean."

Just at that time a great commotion arose about the Way.

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.

Just as they were going to take him into the barracks, Paul said to the colonel, "May I say something to you?" "Do you know Greek?" the colonel asked.

"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.

On the following night the Lord stood beside him and said, "Courage! For just as you have testified for me in Jerusalem, you must testify in Rome also."

This man had been seized by the Jews and they were just going to kill him when I came upon them with my men and rescued him, as I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

and they cannot sustain the charges they have just made against me.

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