And it will be in the last days, says God,
that I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity;
then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams.

For David says of Him:

I saw the Lord ever before me;
because He is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.

For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand

Moses said:

The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He will say to you.

And since they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in response.

Then they persuaded some men to say, “We heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!”

For we heard him say that Jesus, this Nazarene, will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:

Heaven is My throne,
and earth My footstool.
What sort of house will you build for Me?
says the Lord,
or what is My resting place?

Therefore He also says in another passage, You will not allow Your Holy One to see decay.

so the rest of humanity
may seek the Lord—
even all the Gentiles
who are called by My name,
declares the Lord who does these things,

When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, “Release those men!”

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

For what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these ideas mean.”

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”

As he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, “Am I allowed to say something to you?”

He replied, “Do you know Greek?

For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, and no angel or spirit, but the Pharisees affirm them all.

when He said,

Go to these people and say:
You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.