up to the day when through the Holy Spirit He gave the apostles whom He had chosen their orders, and then was taken up to heaven.

After saying this, He was taken up while they were looking at Him, and a cloud swept under Him and carried Him out of their sight.

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

For in the Book of Psalms it is written: 'Let his estate be desolate, and let no one live on it,' and 'Let someone else take his position.'

from the time of His baptism by John down to the day when He was taken up from us, must be added to our number as a witness to His resurrection."

to take a share in this service as an apostle, from which Judas fell away to go to his own place."

So, after further threatening them, they turned them loose, because they could not find any way to punish them, on account of the people, because they all continued to praise God for what had taken place,

to do all that your hand and will had predetermined to take place.

About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had taken place.

"Go and take your stand in the temple square and continue to tell the people the message of this new life."

then he said to them: "Fellow Israelites, take care as to what you are about to do to these men.

Then the Lord said to him, 'Take your shoes off your feet, for the place where you are standing is sacred ground.

Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died. They washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs.

This took place three times; then all at once the thing was taken up into the sky.

As John was closing his career, he said, 'What do you take me to be? I am not the Christ; no, but He is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the shoes on His feet.'

So take care that what is said in the prophets does not come upon you:

Symeon has told how God at first graciously visited the heathen to take from among them a people to bear His name.

But Barnabas persisted in wanting to take along John who was called Mark.

Paul, however, did not consider such a man fit to take along with them, the man who deserted them in Pamphylia and did not go on with them to the work.

But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public and that without a trial, and put us in jail although we are Roman citizens! Let them come here themselves and take us out!"

We had already gone on board the ship and set sail for Assos, where we were to take Paul on board; for it had been so arranged by him, as he intended to travel there on foot.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, so as to continue to be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

Take them along with you, purify yourself with them, and bear the expense for them of having their heads shaved. Then everybody will know that none of those things they have been told about you are so, but that you yourself are living as a constant observer of the law.

As he was about to be taken into the barracks, Paul said to the colonel, "May I say something to you?" The colonel asked, "Do you know Greek?

Since the dispute kept growing hotter and hotter, the colonel became alarmed that Paul might be torn in pieces by them, and so ordered the army to march down and take him out of their hands and bring him back to the barracks.

They went to the high priests and elders and said to them, "We have taken a solemn oath not to taste a morsel till we have killed Paul.

So Paul called one of the captains and said, "Take this young man to the colonel, for he has something to tell him."

But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, just waiting for your promise."

So they came back here with me, and I made no delay to take my seat on the judge's bench, and ordered the man to be brought in.

I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

As I have gotten help from God clear down to this very day, I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a syllable to what Moses and the prophets said should take place,

Until day was about to break Paul kept begging them all to take something to eat. He said, "For fourteen days today you have been constantly waiting and going without food, not even taking a bite.

The natives kept on looking for him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual take place on him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.