So they drew lots for them, and when the lot fell on Matthias, he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus to life after you killed him by hanging him on a tree.

Then the high priest asked, "Is this true?"

"I am the God of your ancestors the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses became terrified and didn't dare to look.

"They hung him on a tree and killed him, but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear

That very night, before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, and guards in front of the door were watching the prisoners.

Now Herod had been in a violent quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him as a group. After they had won over Blastus, who oversaw security for the king's sleeping quarters, they asked for a peace agreement because their country depended on the king's country for food.

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

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,

When they arrived, they called the church together and told them everything that God had done with them and how he had opened a door so that gentiles would believe.

So we have unanimously decided to choose men and send them to you with our dear Barnabas and Paul,

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

Then he left that place and went to the home of a man named Titius Justus, who worshipped God and whose house was next door to the synagogue.

We came in sight of Cyprus, and leaving it on our left, we sailed on to Syria and landed at Tyre because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

When we completed our voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, greeted the brothers there, and stayed with them for one day.

The quarrel was becoming violent, and the tribune was afraid that they would tear Paul to pieces. So he ordered the soldiers to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

The Jewish leaders supported his accusations by asserting that these things were true.

But Paul said, "I'm not out of my mind, Your Excellency Festus. I'm reporting what is absolutely true.