So, when the Apostles had met together, they asked Jesus this question--"Master, is this the time when you intend to re-establish the Kingdom for Israel?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?”

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

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

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.

"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:

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.”

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

As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, [and] for three Sabbath days [in a row] he taught them from the Scriptures,

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

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?"

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!”

Then, when for several days neither sun nor stars were seen and the terrific gale still harassed us, the last ray of hope was now vanishing.