"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

since David says about him, "I always keep my eyes on the Lord, for he is at my right hand so that I cannot be shaken.

And seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could not say anything against them.

So they secretly got some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

They had false witnesses stand up and say, "This man never stops saying things against this Holy Place and against the Law.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

However, the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,

The men replied, "Cornelius, a centurion and an upright and God-fearing man who is respected by the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his home to hear what you have to say."

So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say."

In another Psalm he says, "You will not let your Holy One experience decay.'

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some asked, "What is this blabbermouth trying to say?" while others said, "He seems to be preaching about foreign gods." This was because Paul was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

He went through those regions and encouraged the people with everything he had to say. Then he went to Greece

He came to us, took Paul's belt, and tied his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, "The Holy Spirit says, "This is how the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. Then they will hand him over to the gentiles.'"

When he could not be persuaded otherwise, we remained silent except to say, "May the Lord's will be done."

Just as Paul was about to be taken into the barracks, he asked the tribune, "May I say something to you?"

because the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection and that there is no such thing as an angel or spirit, but the Pharisees believe in all those things.

As they were leaving, they began to say to each other, "This man hasn't been doing anything to deserve death or imprisonment."

He said, "Go to this people and say, "You will listen and listen but never understand, and you will look and look but never see!