They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

Therefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are.”

“Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will also report the same things by word of mouth.

and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

At the same time too, he was hoping that money would be given him by Paul; therefore he also used to send for him quite often and converse with him.

requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they were heading for the beach.