Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had murdered by hanging Him on a tree.

“Is this true?” the high priest asked.

I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. So Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.

We ourselves are witnesses of everything He did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, yet they killed Him by hanging Him on a tree.

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with a firm resolve of the heart,

On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.

He knocked at the door in the gateway, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.

“You’re crazy!” they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true. Then they said, “It’s his angel!”

Peter, however, kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

When they had fulfilled all that had been written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and put Him in a tomb.

The apostles Barnabas and Paul tore their robes when they heard this and rushed into the crowd, shouting:

After they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported everything God had done with them and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.

So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

After we tore ourselves away from them and set sail, we came by a direct route to Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

After we sighted Cyprus, leaving it on the left, we sailed on to Syria and arrived at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

When we completed our voyage from Tyre, we reached Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.

And those standing nearby said, “Do you dare revile God’s high priest?”