"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

For David says of him, 'I constantly regarded the Lord before me, For he is at my right hand, so that I may not be displaced.

So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.

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

And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and his feet and ankles immediately became 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,

Someone came over and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the Temple, teaching the people!"

God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

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

But he, full of the holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

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

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south, by the road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza." (The town is now deserted.)

As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"

This happened three times; then the thing was taken right up into the sky.

but welcomes the man of any nation who reveres him and does what is right.

"I was praying in the town of Joppa, and while in a trance I had a vision. Something like a great sheet came down out of the sky, lowered by its four corners. It came right down to me,

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

and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! 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?

The Lord's hand is right upon you, and you will be blind and unable even to see the sun for a time." Instantly a mist of darkness fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to lead him by the hand.

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

but we should write to them to avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, immorality, the meat of strangled animals, and the tasting of blood.

For Moses for generations past has had his preachers in every town, and has been read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."

and when they read it they were delighted with the encouragement it gave them.

And right then in the night, he took them and washed their wounds, and he and all his household were baptized immediately.

This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.

As he wanted to cross to Greece, the brothers wrote to the disciples there, urging them to welcome him. On his arrival there he was of great service to those who through God's favor had become believers,

They were also to provide horses for Paul to ride, so that they might take him in safety to Felix, the governor,

to whom he wrote a letter to this effect:

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

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