“Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know.

“And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

“Can anyone withhold water and prevent these people from being baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.

And God, who knows the heart, testified to them by giving the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us.

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,