I wrote my first volume, Theophilus, about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning

He answered them, "It is not your business to learn times and dates which the Father has a right to fix,

"Fellow Israelites, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you yourselves well know, a man accredited to you by God through mighty deeds and wonders and wonder-works which God performed through Him right here among you,

For David says of Him: 'I always kept my eyes upon the Lord, for He is at my right hand, so that I may not be removed.

So He has been exalted to God's right hand and has received from His Father, as promised, and poured out upon us the Holy Spirit, as you see and hear.

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

Then he took him by the right hand and lifted him, and his feet and ankles instantly grew strong,

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of Him,

But somebody came by and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the temple square, teaching the people."

God has exalted to His right hand this very One as our Leader and Saviour, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

It was he who brought them out of Egypt by performing wonders and signs there and at the Red Sea -- as he did also in the desert for forty years.

But since he was full of the Holy Spirit, he looked right into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

So he said, "Look! I see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand."

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south by the road that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza; this is the desert road."

As they continued down the road, they came to some water, and the official said, "Look! here is some water! What is there to keep me from being baptized?"

So Ananias left and went to that house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said, "Saul, my. brother, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road on which you were coming here, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

Barnabas, however, took him up and presented him to the apostles, and he told them how on the road he had seen the Lord, and how the Lord had spoken to him, and how courageously he had spoken in the name of Jesus at Damascus.

but in every nation the man who reveres God and practices doing right is acceptable to Him.

"I was praying in the town of Joppa, and while I was praying I fell in a trance and had a vision. I saw something like a great sheet coming down out of the sky, lowered by the four comers; and it came right down to me.

When he knocked at the outer door, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it,

and said, "You expert in every form of deception and sleight-of-hand, you son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right, will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked!

Right now the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be so blind that you cannot see the sun for a time." And suddenly a dark mist fell upon him, and he kept groping about begging people to lead him by the hand.

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders, because they were ignorant of Him, by condemning Him have actually fulfilled the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

and that through union with Him every one of you who believes is given right standing with God and freed from every charge from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

but we should write them to abstain from everything that is contaminated by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from tasting blood.

For Moses from the ancient generations has had his preachers in every town, and on every sabbath has been read aloud in the synagogues."

When they had read it, they were delighted with the encouragement it brought them.

But when the Jews at Thessalonica learned that God's message had been proclaimed at Berea by Paul, they came there too to excite the masses and stir up a riot.

Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and kept beating him right in front of the court; but Gallio paid no attention to it.

Because he wished to cross to Greece, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival he rendered great service to those who through God's favor had believed,

He further told them to provide horses for Paul to ride, so as to bring him in safety to Felix, the governor, to whom

he wrote the following letter:

He read the letter and asked Paul what province he was from, and on learning that he was from Cilicia,

Yet, I have nothing definite to write our Sovereign about him. So I have brought him before all of you, especially before you, King Agrippa, to get from your examination something to put in writing.

and on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, flash around me and my fellow-travelers.