As long as it was unsold, was it not yours, and when it was sold, was not the money at your disposal? How could you have the heart to do such a thing! You did not lie to men but to God!"

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, highly respected by all the people, got up in the council and gave orders to put the men out of the council a little while;

Then they put up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops saying things against this holy place and against the law,

you who received the law by order of the angels, and yet you did not obey it!"

Everybody, high and low, kept running after him, saying, "He is certainly what is known as the Great Power of God!"

and said, "Give me this power too, that when I lay my hands on anyone he may receive the Holy Spirit."

He has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, to restore his sight."

and he said to him, "You know that it is against the law for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit one, but God has taught me not to call any man vulgar or ceremonially unclean;

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue worship sent to them and said, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

and that through union with Him every one of you who believes is given right standing with God and freed from every charge from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

But some members of the Pharisaic party, who had become believers, arose and said that such converts must be circumcised and told to keep the law of Moses.

For the Holy Spirit and we have decided not to lay upon you any burden but these essential requirements,

and to advocate practices which it is against the law for us Romans to accept or observe."

but as it is questions about words and titles and your own law, you will have to see to it yourselves. I refuse to act as judge in these matters."

So then, if Demetrius and his fellow-workmen have a charge against anybody, there are the courts and the judges; let them go to law.

They gave the glory to God, when they heard it, and said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous champions of the law.

Take them along with you, purify yourself with them, and bear the expense for them of having their heads shaved. Then everybody will know that none of those things they have been told about you are so, but that you yourself are living as a constant observer of the law.

as they kept shouting, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the law and this place; yea, more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and desecrated this sacred place."

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today.

There a man named Ananias, a man devout in strict accordance with the law, of good reputation among all the Jews who lived there,

Then Paul said to him, "You white-washed wall, God will strike you! Do you sit as a judge to try me in accordance with the law and yet in violation of the law you order them to strike me?"

and found him to be charged with questions about their law, but having no charge against him involving death or imprisonment.

But I certainly admit this as a fact that in accordance with The Way -- that they call heresy -- I continue to worship the God of my forefathers, and I still believe in everything taught in the law and written in the prophets,

Paul continued to maintain, in his defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or temple or against the emperor."

As I have gotten help from God clear down to this very day, I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a syllable to what Moses and the prophets said should take place,

After setting sail from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the wind was against us,

For a number of days we sailed on slowly and with difficulty arrived off Cnidus. Then, because the wind did not permit us to go on, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Cape Salmone,

As we passed under the lee of a small island called Cauda, with great difficulty we were able to secure the ship's boat.

So they set a day for him, and came in large numbers to see him at the place where he was lodging, and from morning till night he continued to explain to them the kingdom of God, at the same time giving them his own testimony and trying from the law of Moses and the prophets to convince them about Jesus.