Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

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

A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they put daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

"Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Now when the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming that Jesus is the Messiah.

However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the crowds.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute; but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and that she should even be deposed from her magnificence, whom all Asia and the world worships."

When the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

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

Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw 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 teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the Law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place."

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

All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

"It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

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

amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

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

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