Then Peter took hold of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man's feet and ankles were made strong.

And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.

After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census, and incited people to follow him in revolt. He too was killed, and all who followed him were scattered.

But you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images you made to worship, but I will deport you beyond Babylon.'

saying, "Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit."

But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.

But Barnabas took Saul, brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

But Peter helped him up, saying, "Stand up. I too am a mere mortal."

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one but Jews.

But there were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks too, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus.

One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world. (This took place during the reign of Claudius.)

When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too. (This took place during the feast of Unleavened Bread.)

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too,

They had a sharp disagreement, so that they parted company. Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus,

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, "These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,

But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'

He began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

At that time a great disturbance took place concerning the Way.

They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.

When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said, "The Holy Spirit says this: 'This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"

Some of the disciples from Caesarea came along with us too, and brought us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple from the earliest times, with whom we were to stay.

Then Paul took the men the next day, and after he had purified himself along with them, he went to the temple and gave notice of the completion of the days of purification, when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them.

He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

So the centurion took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said, "The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you."

The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked, "What is it that you want to report to me?"

So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.

he said, "I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive too." Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod's palace.

I have a hope in God (a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

They took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep; when they had sailed a little farther they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms deep.

After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.

So all of them were encouraged and took food themselves.

The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.