And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?

As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!"

so that people would carry their sick out into the streets, and lay them down on beds and mats, to have at least Peter's shadow fall on some of them as he went by.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law highly regarded by all the people, got up in the council and ordered the men to be removed for a while,

Then they brought forward false witnesses, who said, "This man is constantly saying things against this holy place and against the Law,

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

Then falling on his knees, he cried out, "Lord, do not lay this sin up against them!" With these words he fell asleep.

Everyone there, high and low, made much of him, and said, "He must be what is known as the Great Power of God!"

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

and he said to them, "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 anyone vulgar or unclean.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue authorities sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any appeal to make to the people, proceed."

and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.

But some members of the Pharisees' party who had become believers got up and said that such converts ought to be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses.

For the holy Spirit and we have decided not to lay upon you any burden but this indispensable one,

They are advocating practices which it is against the law for us as Romans to adopt or observe."

"This fellow," they said, "is trying to induce people to worship God in ways that are against the law."

But as it is only a question of words and titles and your own law, you must look after it yourselves. I refuse to decide such matters."

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

Join them, undergo the rites of purification with them, and pay their expenses so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will understand that there is no truth in the stories about you, but that you yourself observe the Law.

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."

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

There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the Law, highly respected by all the Jews who lived there,

Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Do you sit there to try me by the Law, and order them to strike me in violation of the Law?"

and found that their accusations had to do with questions about their Law, but that he was not charged with anything that would call for his death or imprisonment.

I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,

Paul said in his own defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish Law or the Temple or the emperor."

To this day I have had God's help and I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a thing to what Moses and the prophets declared would happen,

Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, as the wind was against us,

For a number of days we made slow progress and had some difficulty in arriving off Cnidus. Then as the wind kept us from going on, we sailed under the lee of Crete, off Cape Salmone,

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

So they fixed a day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying, and from morning till night he explained to them the Kingdom of God and gave his testimony, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.