In my first book, Theophilus, I wrote about everything Jesus did and taught from the beginning,

he looked ahead and spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah: "He was not abandoned to Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.'

After all, David did not go up to heaven, but he said, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

and you killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses to that.

They were greatly disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people and announcing that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead.

They made Peter and John stand in front of them and began asking, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

If we are being questioned today for a good deed done for someone who was sick or to learn how this man was healed,

you and all the people of Israel must understand that this man stands healthy before you because of the name of Jesus from Nazareth, whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead.

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

So Peter asked her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for that price?" She answered, "Yes, that was the price."

She instantly fell down at Peter's feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.

When the Temple police got there, they did not find them in the prison. They came back and reported,

It was this Moses who told the Israelis, "God will raise up a prophet for you from among your own brothers, just as he did me.'

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?

Which of the prophets did your ancestors fail to persecute? They killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch went on his way rejoicing and did not see Philip again.

He was a devout man who feared God, as did everyone in his home. He gave many gifts to the poor among the people and always prayed to God.

We are witnesses of everything Jesus did in the land of the Jews, including Jerusalem.

not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.

"No one can stop us from using water to baptize these people who have received the Holy Spirit in the same way that we did, can they?"

Then the angel told him, "Tuck in your shirt and put on your sandals!" He did this. Then the angel told him, "Put on your coat and follow me!"

Immediately the angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

But God raised him from the dead,

he has fulfilled for us, their descendants, by raising Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm, "You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.'

God raised him from the dead, never to experience decay, as he said, "I'll give you the holy promises made to David.'

However, the man whom God raised did not experience decay.

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds by persuasion. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking he was dead.

God, who knows everyone's heart, showed them he approved by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

Both Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch to teach and proclaim the word of the Lord, as did many others.

but Paul did not think it was right to take along the man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and who had not gone with them into the work.

They went as far as Mysia and tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them,

After giving them a severe beating, they threw them in jail and ordered the jailer to keep them under tight security.

He explained and showed them that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead: "This very Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Messiah."

because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world with justice through a man whom he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead."

When they heard about a resurrection of the dead, some began joking about it, while others said, "We will hear you again about this."

and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

because we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, and there is no good reason we can give to justify this commotion."

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

I therefore declare to you today that I'm not responsible for the blood of any of you,

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.

When Paul saw that some of them were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he shouted in the Council, "Brothers, I'm a Pharisee and a descendant of Pharisees. I'm on trial concerning the hope that the dead will be resurrected."

unless it is for the one thing I shouted as I stood among them: "It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.'"

"I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, that I can defend myself today against all the accusations of the Jewish leaders,

Why is it thought incredible by all of you that God should raise the dead?

That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the high priests and locked many of the saints in prison. And when I cast my vote against them, they were put to death.

that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and would bring light both to our people and to the gentiles."

Paul replied, "Whether quickly or not, I wish to God that not only you but everyone listening to me today would become what I am except for these chains!"

Right up to daybreak Paul kept urging all of them to eat something. He said, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, not eating anything.

They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.