When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

‘The sun will be turned into darkness
And the moon into blood,
Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.

When the angel who was speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

And having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

And he called to him two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen.”