The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitating. These six brothers went with me, too, and we entered the house of the man from Caesarea.

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me to do the work for which I called them."

After a lengthy debate, Peter stood up and told them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days, God chose me to be the one among you through whom the gentiles would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

At this Paul told him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"

So the centurion took him, brought him to the tribune, and said, "The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you."

When I went to Jerusalem, the high priests and the Jewish elders informed me about him and asked me to condemn him.

Agrippa asked Paul, "Can you so quickly persuade me to become a Christian?"

They examined me and wanted to let me go because there was no reason for me to receive the death penalty in my case.

But the Jews objected and forced me to appeal to the emperor, even though I have no countercharge to bring against my own people.