And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful to beg alms of those who entered the temple.

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked for alms.

With a leap he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

and they recognized him as the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

"Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life."

And when they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

Now when the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed about them, wondering what would come of this.

And someone came and told them, "Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people."

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.

The God who made the world and everything in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands;

Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be regarded as worthless and that she whom all of Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence."

And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each one of them.

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd and laid hands on him,

crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place; and besides he also brought Greeks into the temple, and he has defiled this holy place."

For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

Then all the city was aroused, and the people rushed together, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.

"When I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

He even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

They did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues, or in the city.

As I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia

Paul said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended at all."

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.