Then Peter went down to the men and said, “Here I am, the one you’re looking for. What is the reason you’re here?”

For I see that you're being poisoned by bitterness and you're a prisoner of wickedness!"

"ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? this same Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall descend in the same manner as ye have seen him ascend thither."

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

And when there was risen dissension and disputing not a little unto Paul and Barnabas, against them: they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should ascend to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

He said to them, “Men of Israel, be careful about what you’re going to do to these men.

When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

But some sneered and said, “They’re full of new wine!”

After some time had passed, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the brothers in every town where we have preached the message of the Lord and see how they’re doing.”

They took him and brought him to the Areopagus, and said, “May we learn about this new teaching you’re speaking of?

“You’re crazy!” they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true. Then they said, “It’s his angel!”

As he was making his defense this way, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You’re out of your mind, Paul! Too much study is driving you mad!”

So those who were present asked him, "Master, is this the time when you are going to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?"

But the brothers gathered about him, and he got up and re-entered the town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

"It was this very Jesus whom God raised and we're all witnesses of that.

You have no part or share in what we're saying, because your heart isn't right with God.

and said, "You're full of every form of deception and trickery, you son of the Devil, you enemy of all that is right! You'll never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord, will you?

We're telling you the good news: What God promised our ancestors

and are advocating customs that we're not allowed to accept or practice as Romans."

"After this will I return, and build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen; and re-edify what hath been dug up from the foundation, and will set it upright again:

The tribune asked, "Oh, do you speak Greek? You're not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led 4,000 assassins into the desert, are you?"

Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

And he departed from Ephesus and came unto Caesarea: and ascended and saluted the congregation,

until another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, ascended the throne.

And while they gazed up into the sky as He ascended, suddenly two men wearing white clothing appeared beside them

And fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

until the day when He ascended to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given instruction to the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen.