It was this Moses who told the Israelis, "God will raise up a prophet for you from among your own brothers, just as he did me.'

"Our ancestors had the Tent of Testimony in the wilderness constructed, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

"When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he was first given to us.

God, who knows everyone's heart, showed them he approved by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

We certainly believe that it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, that we are saved, just as they are."

Just as Paul was about to be taken into the barracks, he asked the tribune, "May I say something to you?"

That night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Have courage! For just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, you must testify in Rome, too."

They found me in the Temple doing these things just as I had completed the purification ceremony. No crowd or noisy mob was present.

So take courage, men, because I trust God that it will turn out just as he told me.