When they reached the city, they went to the room upstairs where they had been staying; they were: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

At that time Peter got up among the brothers (there were about a hundred and twenty present) and said,

Then Peter stood with the Eleven around him, and raising his voice he addressed them, "Men of Judea and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and give close attention to my words.

When they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

Peter said to them, "You must repent -- and, as an expression of it, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ -- that you may have your sins forgiven; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

Peter and John were on their way up to the temple at the three o'clock hour of prayer,

So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.

Peter looked him straight in the eye, and so did John, and said, "Look at us."

But Peter said, "No silver or gold have I, but what I do have I will give you. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth start walking."

While he was still clinging to Peter and John, all the people in utter amazement crowded around them in what was called Solomon's portico.

When Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Fellow Israelites, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you keep staring at us, as though we had by our own power or piety made this man walk?

Then Peter, because he was filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Leaders and elders of the people,

They were surprised to see the courage shown by Peter and John and to find that they were uneducated men, and especially untrained in the schools, but they recognized the fact that they had been companions of Jesus,

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of Him,

And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan so completely possessed your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourselves a part of the money received for the land?

Peter said to her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for such and such a sum?" She answered, "Yes, that is it."

Peter said to her, "How could both of you agree in such a way to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door; they will carry you out, too."

so that they kept bringing out into the streets their sick ones and putting them on little couches or pallets, that at least the shadow of Peter, as he went by, might fall on some of them.

Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

But Peter said to him, "Your money go to perdition with you for even dreaming you could buy the gift of God with money!

For I see that you are a bitter weed and a bundle of crookedness!"

Now, as Peter was going here and there among them all, he finally went down to God's people who lived at Lydda.

So Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ now cures you! Get up and make your bed!" And at once he got up.

As Joppa was near Lydda, the disciples heard that Peter was there, and sent two men to him, begging him to come to them without delay.

So Peter at once got up and went with them. When he reached there, they took him to the room upstairs, and all the widows took their stand around him, crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

Then Peter put them all out of the room, knelt down and prayed, and, turning to the body, said, "Tabitha, get up!" Then she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

So it came about that Peter stayed in Joppa several days, at the house of a tanner named Simon.

So now send men to Joppa and invite over a man named Simon, who is also called Peter.

The next day, while those men were traveling on and not far from the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray.

A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill something and eat it."

But Peter said, "Never by any means, sir, for I have never eaten anything common, or not ceremonially cleansed."

Now while Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked for the way to Simon's house and had stopped at the gate;

and they called and inquired if Simon who was called Peter was staying there.

While Peter was meditating on the vision, the Spirit said to him, "There are two men looking for you.

So Peter went down and said to the men, "I am the man you are looking for. What is the purpose of your coming?"

So Peter invited them in and entertained them.

When Peter went into the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and did homage to him.

But Peter lifted him to his feet, saying, "Get up, I too am just a man myself."

So send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is called Peter, to come over. He is being entertained at the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seashore.'

Then Peter opened his mouth and said, "Now I really see that God shows no partiality,

While Peter was still speaking these truths, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the message.

Then the Jewish believers who had gone along with Peter were astounded because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been showered upon the heathen too,

for they heard them speaking in foreign languages and telling of the greatness of God. Then Peter asked,

So when Peter returned to Jerusalem, the champions of circumcision began to bring charges against him

Then Peter explained the whole matter to them from beginning to end. He said,

And I heard a voice say to me, 'Get up, Peter, kill something and eat it!'

Then he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say to him, 'Send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is called Peter, to come over;

and when he saw that this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too -- it was at the time of the feast of Unleavened Bread.

So Peter was being kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was persistently made by the church.

Now just as Herod was going to bring him out, that is, the very night before, Peter was fastened with two chains and was sleeping between two soldiers, and the guards were at the door guarding the prison.

And suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in his cell, and by striking Peter on the side the angel woke him, and said, "Get up quickly!" At once the chains fell off his hands.

Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I really know that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting to do to me."

and on recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she failed to open the door but ran and told them that Peter was standing at the door.

But Peter, meanwhile, kept on knocking. So they opened the door, and when they saw him, they were astounded.

When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Now Herod cherished a bitter grudge against the people of Tyre and Sidon. So in a united body they came to meet him, and after winning the favor of Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended for its food supply upon the king's country.

After a lengthy discussion Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you that through me the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

The Jews there were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message with all eagerness and carried on a daily study of the Scriptures to see if Paul's message was true.

When we had torn ourselves away from them, we struck a bee line for Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.