who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

when suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a violent blast of wind, which filled the whole house where they were seated.

When Ananias heard this, he fell down and expired. (Great awe came over all who heard of it.)

After an interval of about three hours his wife happened to come in, quite unconscious of what had occurred.

Instantly she fell down at their feet and expired. The younger men came in to find her dead; they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Great awe came over the whole church and over all who heard about this.

But as the attendants did not find them when they got to the prison, they came back to report,

However, someone came and reported to them, "Here are the very men you put in prison, standing in the temple and teaching the people!"

and said to him, 'Leave your land and your countrymen and come to whatever land I show you.'

Now a famine came over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, attended with great misery, so that our ancestors could not find provender.

Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"

I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I have heard their groans, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you back to Egypt.'

For unclean spirits came screaming and shrieking out of many who had been possessed, and many paralytics and lame people were healed.

who came down and prayed that the Samaritans might receive the holy Spirit.

You come in for no share or lot in this religion. Your heart is all wrong in the sight of God.

So he got up and went on his way. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a high official of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians (he was her chief treasurer), who had come to Jerusalem for worship

As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

When they came up from the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch lost sight of him. He went on his way rejoicing,

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

But their plot came to the ears of Saul, and, although they kept watch on the gates day and night in order to make away with him,

Peter moved here and there among them all, and it happened that in the course of his tours he came down to visit the saints who stayed at Lydda.

When the disciples heard that Peter was at Lydda (for Joppa is not far from Lydda), they sent two men to beg him to "Come on to us without delay."

He became very hungry and longed for some food. But as they were getting the meal ready, a trance came over him.

A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

Come, get up and go down, and have no hesitation about accompanying them, for it is I who have sent them."

and so I have come without any demur when I was sent for. Now I want to know why you sent for me?"

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."

So when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party fell foul of him.

"I was in the town of Joppa at prayer," he said, "and in a trance I saw a vision ??a vessel coming down like a huge sheet lowered from heaven by the four corners. It came down to me,

When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

During these days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch,

When they had passed the first guard and the second they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; they passed out, and after they had gone through one street, the angel immediately left him.

Then Peter came to his senses and said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

When he knocked at the door of the porch, a maidservant called Rhoda came to answer it;

As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

For many days he was seen by those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem; they are now his witnesses to the People.

Now when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"

Then they came through Pisidia to Pamphylia,

But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

Some days later, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come and let us go back to visit the brothers in every town where we have proclaimed the word of the Lord. Let us see how they are doing."

He also came down to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timotheus, the son of a believing Jewess and a Greek father.

We then came to the Roman colony of Philippi, which is the foremost town of the district of Macedonia. In this town we spent some days.

When she was baptized, along with her household, she begged us, saying, "If you are convinced I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." She compelled us to come.

The jailer repeated this to Paul. "The praetors," he said, "have sent to release you. So come out and go in peace?"

But Paul replied, "They flogged us in public and without a trial, flogged Roman citizens! They put us in prison, and now they are going to get rid of us secretly! No indeed! Let them come here themselves and take us out!"

but as they failed to find Paul and Silas they haled Jason and some of the brothers before the politarchs, yelling, "These upsetters of the whole world have come here too!

But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

There he came across a Jew called Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, as Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul accosted them,

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

he said goodbye to them, telling them, "I will come back to you, if it is the will of God." Then, sailing from Ephesus,

There came to Ephesus a Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria, a man of culture, strong in his knowledge of the scriptures.

It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples,

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

and after Paul laid his hands on them the holy Spirit came upon them, they spoke with 'tongues' and prophesied.

people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

This came to the ears of all the inhabitants of Ephesus, Jews as well as Greeks; awe fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

Many believers would also come to confess and disclose their magic spells;

After passing through the districts of Macedonia and encouraging the people at length, he came to Greece,

When they came to him, he said, "You know quite well how I lived among you all the time ever since I set foot in Asia,

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet called Agabus came down from Judaea.

He came to us, took Paul's girdle and bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Here is the word of the holy Spirit: 'So shall the Jews bind the owner of this girdle at Jerusalem and hand him over to the Gentiles'."

Then the commander came up and seized him; he ordered him to be bound with a couple of chains, and asked "Who is he?" and "What has he done?"

As he gave permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people. A great hush came over them, and he addressed them as follows in Hebrew.

came to me and standing beside me said, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' The same moment I regained my sight and looked up at him.

This man had been seized by the Jews and was on the point of being murdered by them, when I came on them with the troops and rescued him, as I had ascertained that he was a Roman citizen.

Five days later down came the high priest Ananias with some elders and a barrister called Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

After a lapse of several years I came up with alms and offerings for my nation,

Festus replied that Paul would be kept in custody at Caesarea, but that he himself meant to leave for Caesarea before long ??5 "when," he added, "your competent authorities can come down with me and charge the man with whatever crime he has committed."

When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and brought a number of serious charges against him, none of which they were able to prove.

Some days had passed, when king Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

Well, the day after they came here along with me, I took my seat on the tribunal without any loss of time. I ordered the man to be brought in,

then, sailing over the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we came to Myra in Lycia.

The natives showed us uncommon kindness, for they lit a fire and welcomed us all to it, as the rain had come on and it was chilly.

When this had happened, the rest of the sick folk in the island also came and got cured;

where we came across some of the brotherhood, who invited us to stay a week with them. In this way we reached Rome.

As the local brothers had heard about us, they came out to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae, and when Paul saw them he thanked God and took courage.

They replied, "We have had no letters about you from Judaea, and no brother has come here with any bad report or story about you.

So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

For two full years he remained in his private lodging, welcoming anyone who came to visit him;