but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

"Brothers, one may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his grave is here among us to this very day.

and killed the very source of life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can testify.

When the commander of the Temple and the high priests heard this report, they were very much at a loss as to what would come of it.

He got very hungry, and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance,

So I sent for you immediately, and you have very kindly come. Now we are all here in God's presence, to hear everything that the Lord has instructed you to say."

Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came before him in a body, and after winning over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended upon the king's dominions for its food supply.

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

But when the Jews saw the crowd, they were very jealous, and they contradicted what Paul said and abused him.

For these are the orders the Lord has given us: " 'I have made you a light for the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth!' "

" 'Afterward I will return, and rebuild David's fallen dwelling. I will rebuild its very ruins, and set it up again,

She did this for a number of days, until Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" And it came out instantly.

Then he took them up to his house and offered them food, and he and all his household were very happy over their new faith in God.

The crowd and the magistrates were very much excited at hearing this,

He spoke very confidently in the synagogue at first, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the Way of God to him more correctly.

When they heard this, they became very angry, and cried, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!"

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting at the window, became very drowsy as Paul's address grew longer and longer, and finally went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

Paul looked steadily at the council and said, "Brothers, I have done my duty to God with a perfectly clear conscience up to this very day."

At the same time he hoped to get money from Paul, and for that reason he used to send for him very often and talk with him.

But very soon a violent wind which they call a Northeaster rushed down from it.