And with many other words did he press and exhort them, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

Certain also of the chief of Asia which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not press into the common hall.

If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.

But when he was on the stairs, it happened that he was borne up by the soldiers, because of the press of the crowd.

to effect what thy power and thy wisdom pre-determined to be done.

he he has deduced all mankind from one parent, to inhabit the surface of the whole earth, having pre-establish'd the appointed periods, and the boundarys of their dominions:

And he may send Christ Jesus who has been pre-ordained for you,

Yet, He was handed over to you so that, by lawless men [i.e., the Romans], He was put to death by crucifixion. Now this was all done in harmony with God's full pre-knowledge and [divine] purpose.

seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in righteousness, through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead."

The Gentiles listened with delight and extolled the Lord's Message; and all who were pre-destined to the Life of the Ages believed.