Day after day they all went regularly to the Temple, they broke their bread together in their homes, and they ate their food with glad and simple hearts,

Peter and John were on their way up to the Temple for the three o'clock hour of prayer,

when a man who had been lame from his birth was carried by. He used to be placed every day at what was known as the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, to beg from the people on their way into the Temple,

and when he saw Peter and John on the point of going into the Temple he asked them to give him something.

and he sprang to his feet and began to walk, and he went into the Temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.

and recognized him as the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were perfectly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.

As they were talking in this way to the people, the high priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came up to them,

"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."

And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.

When the commander of the Temple and the high priests heard this report, they were very much at a loss as to what would come of it.

Someone came over and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the Temple, teaching the people!"

and they did not for a single day stop teaching and preaching in the Temple and in private houses the good news of Jesus, the Christ.

The priest of the temple of Zeus that stood at the entrance to the town came with crowds of people to the gates, bringing bulls and garlands, meaning to offer sacrifice to them.

God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands,

There is danger, therefore, not only that this business of ours will be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be neglected and the magnificence of her whom all Asia and the world worship will be a thing of the past!"

At last the recorder quieted the mob and said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell down from the sky?

Then Paul joined the men and went through the rites of purification with them and the next day went to the Temple to give notice of the time when, upon the offering of the sacrifice for each one of them, their days of purification would be over.

The seven days were almost over when the Jews from Asia caught sight of him in the Temple, and stirred up all the crowd and seized him,

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."

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

The whole city was thrown into confusion, and the people hurried together, and seized Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple, the gates of which were immediately shut.

After I had returned to Jerusalem, one day when I was praying in the Temple, I fell into a trance,

and actually tried to desecrate the Temple, but we caught him.

and they have never found me debating with anyone in the Temple, or creating a disturbance among the people in the synagogues or about the city,

I had undergone the rites of purification and was occupied with these matters when they found me in the Temple, with no crowd or disturbance at all. But there were some Jews from Asia

Paul said in his own defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish Law or the Temple or the emperor."

That is why the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me.