But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: "Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give heed to my words.

Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh also will live in hope,

You have made known to me the ways of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.'

but killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

"Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life."

In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken up from the earth."

When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, "So then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance unto life."

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

The God who made the world and everything in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands;

nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything.

And he made from one man every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

'For in him we live and move and have our being,' as even some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'

But Paul went down and fell on him, and after embracing him, he said, "Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him."

But I do not consider my life of any account nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in observance of the law.

Up to this word they listened to him, and then they raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he ought not to live."

And Paul, looking intently at the council, said, "Brethren, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day."

Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

So then, all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem.

Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage; for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live."