Now when they met, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time you are going to restore the Realm to Israel?"

But he told them, "It is not for you to know the course and periods of time that the Father has fixed by his own authority.

Well then, of the men who have been associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

After him Judas the Galilean started up at the time of the census, and got people to desert to him; but he perished too, and all his followers were scattered.

But he did not give him any inheritance in it, not even a foot of the land. All be did was to promise that he would give it as a possession to him and to his offspring after him (he at the time being childless).

As the time approached for the promise God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Now for some time previous a man called Simon had been practising magic arts in the town, to the utter astonishment of the Samaritan nation; he made himself out to be a great person,

They attached themselves to him because he had dazzled them with his skill in magic for a considerable time.

Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: ??he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.

By humbling himself he had his doom removed. Who can tell his family? For his life is cut off from the earth.

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

She happened to take ill and die at this time, and after washing her body they laid it in an upper room.

In Joppa Peter stayed for some time, at the house of Simon a tanner.

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'

It was about that time that king Herod laid hands of violence on some members of the church.

Herod made inquiries for him but could not find him; so, after cross-examining the guards, he ordered them off to death. He then went down from Judaea to Caesarea, where he spent some time.

See here, the Lord's hand will fall on you, and you will be blind, unable for a time to see the sun." In a moment a dark mist fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to take him by the hand.

Here they spent a considerable time, speaking fearlessly about the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by allowing signs and wonders to be performed by them.

They spent a considerable time with the disciples there.

Then after some time had passed the brothers let them go with a greeting of peace to those who had sent them.

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

After spending some time there he went off on a journey right through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening the disciples.

It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened.

This was because Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid any loss of time in Asia; he wanted to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

When they came to him, he said, "You know quite well how I lived among you all the time ever since I set foot in Asia,

but, when our time was up, we started on our journey, escorted by them, women and children and all, till we got outside the town. Then, kneeling on the beach, we prayed

Then Paul associated himself with the men next day; he had himself purified along with them and went into the temple to give notice of the time when the days of purification would be completed ??the time, that is to say, when the sacrifice could be offered for each one of them.

By the time he reached the steps, he had actually to be carried by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd,

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

(though at the same time he hoped Paul would give him a bribe). So he did send for him pretty frequently and conversed with him.

Well, the day after they came here along with me, I took my seat on the tribunal without any loss of time. I ordered the man to be brought in,

By this time it was far on in the season and sailing had become dangerous (for the autumn Fast was past), so Paul warned them thus:

When they had gone without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and spared yourselves this hardship and loss by refusing to set sail from Crete.

Just before daybreak Paul begged them all to take some food. "For fourteen days," he said, "you have been on the watch all the time, without a proper meal.