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?”

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!”

For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand