And with many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt generation!”

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.”

The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

For they heard them speaking in other languages and declaring the greatness of God.

Then Peter responded,

But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.

But Paul and Barnabas, along with many others, remained in Antioch teaching and proclaiming the message of the Lord.

So taking a security bond from Jason and the others, they released them.

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him. But others said, “We’d like to hear from you again about this.”

However, some men joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy.

When Paul realized that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part were Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees! I am being judged because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”

and when they had left they talked with each other and said, “This man is doing nothing that deserves death or chains.”

When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.

Some were persuaded by what he said, but others did not believe.