As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!"

They made much of him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.

There they stayed for a long time with the disciples.

After a long discussion, Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose that of you all I should be the one from whose lips the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

Then he went upstairs again, and broke the bread, and ate, and after a long talk with them that lasted until daylight, he went away.

But??ot to detain you too long?? beg you to be kind enough to give us a brief hearing.

Then, when they had gone a long time without food, Paul got up among them, and said, "Gentlemen, you ought to have listened to me and not to have sailed from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss.

They expected to see him swell up or suddenly fall dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.