For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand.

Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.)

For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

And catching him by the right hand he raised him. Instantly his feet and ankles grew strong,

But Peter and John replied, "Decide for yourselves whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God.

God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

He it was who led them forth, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the desert during forty years.

He, full of the holy Spirit, gazed up at heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

"Look," he said, "I 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, along the road from Jerusalem to Gaza" (the desert-route).

he asked. "Why, how can I possibly understand it," said the eunuch, "unless some one puts me on the right track?" And he begged Philip to get up and sit beside him.

So Ananias went off and entered the house, laying his hands on him with these words, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord, by Jesus who appeared to you on the road, to let you regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

Barnabas, however, got hold of him and brought him to the apostles. To them he related how he had seen the Lord upon the road, how He had spoken to him, and how he had spoken freely in the name of Jesus at Damascus.

Next day they were still on the road and not far from the town, when Peter went up to the roof of the house about noon to pray.

When he knocked at the door of the porch, a maidservant called Rhoda came to answer it;

The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;

but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."

But Paul replied, "They flogged us in public and without a trial, flogged Roman citizens! They put us in prison, and now they are going to get rid of us secretly! No indeed! Let them come here themselves and take us out!"

But when the Jews of Thessalonica heard that Paul was proclaiming the word of God at Beroea as well, they came to create a disturbance and a riot among the crowds at Beroea too.

After spending some time there he went off on a journey right through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening the disciples.

As he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to give him a welcome. And on his arrival he proved of great service to those who by God's grace had believed,

Indeed there is a danger of our being charged with riot over to-day's meeting; there is not a single reason we can give for this disorderly gathering."

He then wrote a letter in the following terms.

Next day the infantry returned to their barracks, leaving the troopers to ride on with him.

They never found me arguing with anyone in the temple or causing a riot either in the synagogues or in the city;

and it was in presenting these that I was found within the temple. I was ceremonially pure, I was not mixed up in any mob or riot; no, the trouble was caused by some Jews from Asia,

as a special favour, to send for him to Jerusalem, meaning to lay an ambush for him and murder him on the road.

Only, I have nothing definite to write to the sovereign about him. So I have brought him up before you all, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, in order that I may have something to write as the result of your cross-examination.

when at mid-day on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven, more dazzling than the sun, flash round me and my fellow-travellers.

"At this rate," Agrippa remarked, "it won't be long before you believe you have made a Christian of me!"

We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."