They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched him go into heaven."

if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a cripple, as to how this man has been healed,

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.

saying, "What shall we do with these men? For that a noteworthy miracle has been performed through them is apparent to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.

Now those who had been scattered went about preaching the word.

For he had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed.

and he said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."

All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

And behold, at that moment three men appeared at the house in which we were staying, having been sent to me from Caesarea.

Now in the church that was at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

"Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.

Now therefore why do you test God by putting upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions which had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.

And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

When she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."

and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or to walk according to the customs.

take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in observance of the law.

And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and go on into Damascus, and there you will be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.'

But on the next day, wishing to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Council to assemble, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

When the governor had motioned for him to speak, Paul replied: "Realizing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.

And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."

As much time had been lost, and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,

So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen exactly as I have been told.

As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense and without food, having taken nothing.

When we had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.

Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen."