So when they had come together, they asked Him, “Lord, are You restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”

Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying.

When this sound occurred, a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

Then fear came over everyone, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles.

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out, that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

But many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about 5,000.

When he heard these words, Ananias dropped dead, and a great fear came on all who heard.

There was an interval of about three hours; then his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

Instantly she dropped dead at his feet. When the young men came in, they found her dead, carried her out, and buried her beside her husband.

Then great fear came on the whole church and on all who heard these things.

As a result, they would carry the sick out into the streets and lay them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

In addition, a large group came together from the towns surrounding Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

As the commander of the temple police and the chief priests heard these things, they were baffled about them, as to what could come of this.

Someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple complex and teaching the people.”

Not long ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about 400 men rallied to him. He was killed, and all his partisans were dispersed and came to nothing.

Then some from what is called the Freedmen’s Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and disputed with Stephen.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, dragged him off, and took him to the Sanhedrin.

and said to him:

Get out of your country
and away from your relatives,
and come to the land
that I will show you.

“Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land you now live in.

I will judge the nation
that they will serve as slaves, God said.
After this, they will come out
and worship Me in this place.

Then a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.

When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he was approaching to look at it, the voice of the Lord came:

I have observed the oppression of My people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed, and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.

For He had not yet come down on any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water! What would keep me from being baptized?”

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.

Philip appeared in Azotus, and he was traveling and evangelizing all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

But all who heard him were astounded and said, “Isn’t this the man who, in Jerusalem, was destroying those who called on this name and then came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

As Peter was traveling from place to place, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda.

About three in the afternoon he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius!”

Looking intently at him, he became afraid and said, “What is it, lord?”

The angel told him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have come up as a memorial offering before God.

While talking with him, he went on in and found that many had come together there.

That’s why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So I ask: Why did you send for me?”

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who heard the message.

The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a visionary state, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.

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

But there were some of them, Cypriot and Cyrenian men, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Hellenists, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.

In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

After they passed the first and second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and immediately the angel left him.

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from all that the Jewish people expected.”

He knocked at the door in the gateway, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.

Being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however, left them and went back to Jerusalem.

Before He came to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

and He appeared for many days to those who came with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men!”

Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they had won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.

Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.

Some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom prescribed by Moses, you cannot be saved!”

When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

So, bypassing Mysia, they came down to Troas.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

And she did this for many days.

But Paul was greatly aggravated and turning to the spirit, said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out right away.

Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose.

When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, “Release those men!”

The jailer reported these words to Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders for you to be released. So come out now and go in peace.”

But Paul said to them, “They beat us in public without a trial, although we are Roman citizens, and threw us in jail. And now are they going to smuggle us out secretly? Certainly not! On the contrary, let them come themselves and escort us out!”

So they came and apologized to them, and escorting them out, they urged them to leave town.

After leaving the jail, they came to Lydia’s house where they saw and encouraged the brothers, and departed.

Then they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that God’s message had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and disturbing the crowds.

Those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.

where he found a Jewish man named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

but he said good-bye and stated, “I’ll come back to you again, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy.

so that even facecloths or work aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.

And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,

So not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin—the very one all of Asia and the world adore.”

Meanwhile, some were shouting one thing and some another, because the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.

And when he had passed through those areas and exhorted them at length, he came to Greece

When he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.

Sailing from there, the next day we arrived off Chios. The following day we crossed over to Samos, and the day after, we came to Miletus.

And when they came to him, he said to them: “You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time—

serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews—

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

After we tore ourselves away from them and set sail, we came by a direct route to Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

The next day we left and came to Caesarea, where we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him.

While we were staying there many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”

So what is to be done? They will certainly hear that you’ve come.

Then the commander came up, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.

“Since I couldn’t see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus.

came and stood by me and said, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight.’ And in that very hour I looked up and saw him.

“After I came back to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple complex, I went into a visionary state

The commander came and said to him, “Tell me—are you a Roman citizen?”

“Yes,” he said.

But the son of Paul’s sister, hearing about their ambush, came and entered the barracks and reported it to Paul.

After five days Ananias the high priest came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. These men presented their case against Paul to the governor.

But Lysias the commander came and took him from our hands with great force,