beginning when he was baptized by John until the day he was taken up from us. Therefore, someone like this must become a witness with us to his resurrection."

Suddenly, a sound like the roar of a mighty windstorm came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated, and one rested on each of them.

Peter, along with John, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Look at us!"

"And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance like your leaders.

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you. Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

Then someone came and told them, "Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the Temple and teaching the people!"

Then everyone who was seated in the Council glared at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

You don't want to kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?'

When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached the bush to look at it, the voice of the Lord said,

"I am the God of your ancestors the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses became terrified and didn't dare to look.

He said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

This was the passage of Scripture he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, and like a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

As they were going along the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, "Look, there's some water. What keeps me from being baptized?"

The Lord told him, "Get up, go to the street called Straight, and in the home of Judas look for a man from Tarsus named Saul. At this very moment he's praying.

All at once something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.

and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.

Peter was still thinking about the vision when the Spirit told him, "Look! Three men are looking for you.

"I was in the town of Joppa praying when in a trance I saw a vision: Something like a large linen sheet descended down from heaven, lowered by its four corners, and it came right down to me.

Then Barnabas left for Tarsus to look for Saul.

"Look, you mockers! Be amazed and die! Since I am performing an action in your days, one that you would not believe even if someone told you!'"

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us!"

"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

So the apostles and the elders met to look into this claim.

Having received these orders, he put them into the inner cell and fastened their feet in leg irons.

It sounds rather strange to our ears, and we would like to know what it means."

so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.

So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.

In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."

I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters, so I asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there for these things.

Agrippa told Festus, "I would like to hear the man." "Tomorrow," he said, "you will hear him."

However, we'd like to hear from you what you believe, because people are talking against this sect everywhere."

He said, "Go to this people and say, "You will listen and listen but never understand, and you will look and look but never see!