But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honor by all the people, stood up and ordered the men to be put outside for a while.

They put forward false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking against this holy place, and the law;

you who received the law as delivered by angels, and yet did not keep it."

saying, "Give me also this power, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."

and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight."

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it."

and through him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up, and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the Law of Moses."

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:

saying, "This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law."

but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things."

And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; they are all zealous for the law,

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.

crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place; and besides he also brought Greeks into the temple, and he has defiled this holy place."

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

"A certain Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, and well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

Then Paul said to him, "God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"

I found that he was accused over questions about their Law, but there was no accusation against him deserving death or imprisonment.

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do worship the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,

Paul said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended at all."

We put out to sea from there and sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us.

When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete, off Salmone.

And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were scarcely able to secure the boat.

When they had appointed a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in great numbers. And he explained the matter to them from morning till evening, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.