and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This very Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in just the way you have seen Him go up into heaven."

For in the Book of Psalms it is written: 'Let his estate be desolate, and let no one live on it,' and 'Let someone else take his position.'

when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

and recognized him as the very man who used to sit at The Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg, they were completely astounded and bewildered at what occurred to him.

and He may send back Jesus, the Christ who long ago was appointed for you.

When they were turned loose, the apostles went back to their companions and told them what the high priests and elders had said to them.

and, with his wife's full knowledge of it, kept back for themselves a part of the money and brought only a part of it and put it at the disposal of the apostles.

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?

But the attendants who went for them could not find them in the jail, and so came back and

Then the military commander went with his attendants and brought them back, but without any violence, for they were afraid of being pelted with stones by the people.

and were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought with a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Because I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt and heard their groans, I have come down to deliver them. So come! I will send you back to Egypt as my messenger.'

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the starry host, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets: 'Did you really offer me victims and sacrifices those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Then he fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not charge this sin on the book against them!" On saying this he fell asleep in death.

So Simon answered, "Both of you beg the Lord for me that none of the things you have said may befall me!"

So after they had given their testimony and spoken the Lord's message, they started back to Jerusalem, and on the way continued to tell the good news in many Samaritan villages.

And all who heard him were astounded and said, "Is not this the man who harassed those who called upon this name in Jerusalem, and has come here expressly for the purpose of putting them in chains and taking them back to the high priests?"

So when the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and from there sent him back to Tarsus.

He gave her his hand and lifted her to her feet, and calling in the Lord's people and the widows, he gave her back to them alive.

This took place three times; then all at once the whole thing was drawn back into the sky.

But the disciples formed a circle about him, and he got up and went back to town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been committed to God's favor for the work which they had finished.

After spending some time there, they were sent back with a greeting to those who sent them.

Some days after this Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we preached the Lord's message, to see how they are."

The men who acted as Paul's bodyguard took him all the way to Athens, and then went back with orders for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible.

But as he bade them goodbye, he promised, "I will come back to you again, if it is God's will." Then he set sail from Ephesus.

So he went back upstairs, and broke the bread and ate with them, and after talking with them extendedly, even till daylight, he left them.

But when our time was up, we left there and went on, and all of them with their wives and children accompanied us out of town. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed;

there we bade one another goodbye, and we went aboard the ship, while they went back.

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. Indeed, I had received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on the way there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

After I had come back to Jerusalem, one day while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance,

Since the dispute kept growing hotter and hotter, the colonel became alarmed that Paul might be torn in pieces by them, and so ordered the army to march down and take him out of their hands and bring him back to the barracks.

But, not to detain you too long, I beg you in your kindness to give us a brief hearing.

So they came back here with me, and I made no delay to take my seat on the judge's bench, and ordered the man to be brought in.

especially because you are familiar with all the Jewish customs and questions. I beg you, therefore, to hear me with patience.

Even now I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.

So I beg you to eat something, for it is necessary for your safety. For not a hair will be lost from the head of a single one of you."

When day broke, they could not recognize the land, but they spied a bay that had a beach, and determined, if possible, to run the ship ashore.

So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time they undid the ropes of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the breeze they headed for the beach.