“For it is written in the Book of Psalms:

Let his dwelling become desolate;
let no one live in it; and
Let someone else take his position.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

You have revealed the paths of life to me;
You will fill me with gladness
in Your presence.

You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

saying, “What should we do with these men? For an obvious sign, evident to all who live in Jerusalem, has been done through them, and we cannot deny it!

“Go and stand in the temple complex, and tell the people all about this life.”

“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.

In His humiliation justice was denied Him.
Who will describe His generation?
For His life is taken from the earth.

When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, “So God has granted repentance resulting in life even to the Gentiles!”

Then as John was completing his life’s work, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the One. But look! Someone is coming after me, and I am not worthy to untie the sandals on His feet.’

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands.

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

But Paul went down, fell on him, embraced him, and said, “Don’t be alarmed, for his life is in him!”

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

They listened to him up to this word. Then they raised their voices, shouting, “Wipe this person off the earth—it’s a disgrace for him to live!”

Paul looked intently at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience until this day.”

Then Festus said: “King Agrippa and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish community has appealed to me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he should not live any longer.

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is probably a murderer, and though he has escaped the sea, Justice does not allow him to live!”