He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."

In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,

They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne,

For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, "Look at us."

But Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk."

They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord your God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people, and elders,

But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with with one accord, and said, "Sovereign Lord, it is you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." She said, "Yes, for so much."

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.

So the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'

He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they would not stay alive.

When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came,

The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.'

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

He kneeled down, and shouted out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.

But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money.

The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"

He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." He said, "Behold, it's me, Lord."

The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight."

But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the sons of Israel.

Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Is not this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests."

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed." Immediately he arose.

Peter put them all out, and kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up." She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you.

Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"

They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say."

He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

Cornelius said, "Four days ago until this hour, the ninth hour, I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by the Lord."

And Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God does not show favoritism;

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly." His chains fell off from his hands.

The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me."

When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."

They said to her, "You are crazy." But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."

But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place.

On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them."

and said, "Full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia, and John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

From this man's seed, according to his promise, God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus,

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet." He leaped up and walked.

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

'After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David, which has fallen. I will rebuild its ruins. I will set it up,

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."

On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the gate by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.

She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out at once.

When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.