and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

The sun will turn to darkness, And the moon to blood, Before the coming of the great, splendid Day of the Lord.

for we cannot help telling of what we have seen and heard."

Joseph, a Levite, and a native of Cyprus, whom the apostles had named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement,

When he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

When forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

I have seen all the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and I have come down to save them. So come! I will make you my messenger to Egypt!'

It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live.

In the desert our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony built like the model Moses had seen, just as he who spoke to him told him to make it.

And he said, "Look! I can see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand!"

Then falling on his knees, he cried out, "Lord, do not lay this sin up against them!" With these words he fell asleep.

He has had a vision and seen a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, to restore his sight."

and began at once to declare in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God.

But Barnabas got hold of him and introduced him to the apostles, and he told them how on his journey he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how boldly he had spoken for the cause of Jesus at Damascus.

But God raised him to life on the third day and caused him to be plainly seen,

Then he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, 'Send to Joppa for a man named Simon who is also called Peter,

and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! You son of the devil! You enemy of all that is right! Will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked?

The Lord's hand is right upon you, and you will be blind and unable even to see the sun for a time." Instantly a mist of darkness fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to lead him by the hand.

Then they demanded a king and for forty years God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin.

Then he removed him and raised David up to be their king, bearing this testimony to him: 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all that I desire.'

that God has fulfilled to us, their children, the promise that he made to our forefathers, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the second psalm, You are my Son! Today I have become your Father!'

As soon as he had this vision, we made efforts to get on to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to tell them the good news.

The men who went with Paul took him all the way to Athens, and came back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin him as soon as possible.

He was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, Aristarchus and Secundus, from Thessalonica, Gaius of Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus, from Asia.

For they had previously seen Trophimus of Ephesus with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the Temple.

for you shall be his witness before all men of what you have seen and heard.

Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

he said, "I will hear your case as soon as your accusers arrive." And he gave orders that he should be kept in Herod's palace.

The governor made a sign to Paul to speak, and he answered, "As I know that for many years you have acted as judge for this nation, I cheerfully undertake my defense,

Festus answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was going there soon.

when on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun flash around me and my fellow-travelers.

But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me.

But very soon a violent wind which they call a Northeaster rushed down from it.

For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were visible, and the storm continued to rage, until at last we gave up all hope of being saved.