All these men resorted with one mind to prayer, together with the women, with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

When he noticed that Peter and John meant to go into the temple, he asked them for alms.

At the close of forty years an angel [of the Lord] appeared to him in the flames of a burning thorn-bush, in the desert of mount Sinai.

This was the man who at the assembly in the desert intervened between the angel who spoke to him on mount Sinai and our fathers; he received living Words to be given to us.

The very night before Herod meant to have him produced, Peter lay asleep between two soldiers; he was fastened by two chains, and sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.

In the synagogue he was very outspoken at first; but when Aquila and Priscilla listened to him, they took him home and explained more accurately to him what the Way of God really meant.

Horses were also to be provided, on which they were to mount Paul and carry him safe to Felix the governor.

Festus replied that Paul would be kept in custody at Caesarea, but that he himself meant to leave for Caesarea before long ??5 "when," he added, "your competent authorities can come down with me and charge the man with whatever crime he has committed."

They meant to release me after examination, as I was innocent of any crime that deserved death.