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And when the Council had threatened them some more, they [finally] released them because they could not find any reason to punish them. [Actually] they were worried about how the people felt [about the matter], since everybody was giving honor to God for the miracle that had been performed.

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By PeopleSpecific Praising Of God

And instantly she fell dead right in front of him, and her spirit left her body. [Just then the] young men came in and found her dead. They carried her out and buried her with her husband.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of PeterCarrying Dead BodiesPeople TumblingHaving No Breath

"We found the jail securely locked, with guards on duty at the doors, but when we went inside there was no one there!"

Verse ConceptsKeysStandingPrison KeepersEmpty PlacesShutting DoorsLocks And Barspreppingjail

who found favor in God's sight and asked for permission to build a [special] house for the God of Jacob's [descendants] to live in.

Verse ConceptsDivine FavourBuilding God's DwellingFavor

to ask for letters [authorizing him to go] to Damascus and to enter [Jewish] synagogues looking for people of "the Way" [Note: This was a designation for Christians at that time]. And if he found any, whether men or women, he would tie them up and take them to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsArrestingequipping, physicalWay, TheTying Updamascus

The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to Straight Street and ask for a person named Saul, from Tarsus, at the home of Judas; you will find him [there] praying."

Verse ConceptsRoadsStreetsStraight Paths

but he found out about their plan. And so they watched the gates [of the city] day and night [looking for their chance] to kill him.

Verse ConceptsGatesBaskets, Uses OfMan Keeping WatchWatchfulness, Of BelieversCitiesWaiting At GatesCity GatesLabour Day And NightKnowing Facts

And there he found a certain man named Aeneas who had been [confined to his] bed, paralyzed for eight years.

Verse ConceptsParalyticsEight Or Nine YearsBeds

The following day they arrived at Caesarea where they found Cornelius, gathered with his relatives and close friends, waiting for them.

As they talked, Peter went into the house and found many people gathered together [there].

Verse ConceptsDealing With Many PeopleWhile Still Speaking

and when he found him, he brought him [back] to Antioch. So, for an entire year Saul and Barnabas gathered the church together and taught many people. [It was] here in Antioch that the disciples were first [divinely] called Christians.

Verse ConceptsCongregationChristiansTeachersChristian TeachersNames And Titles For The ChristianAntioch in SyriaChurch, Examples OfNew Birth, Evidenced ByOne YearTeaching In The ChurchFirst Among The GentilesCalledThe churchDiscipleshipGoing To ChurchchristianityencouraginggroupschristChristians Are Called Disciples

Now look, the power of the Lord is coming on you to cause [such] blindness that you will not [even] be able to see the sun for awhile." And immediately a misty darkness fell on him and he kept trying to find people to lead him [around] by the hand.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesHand Of GodMiracles, Nature OfMistPainMiracles Of PaulMiracles Bringing God's JudgmentBarriersGod's HandOvertaken By DarknessGod BlindingGod's Hands In Oppositionfitness

And when God removed him [from the throne of Israel] He raised up David to be their king. God said about him, 'I have found David, the son of Jesse, to be a man close to my heart [i.e., whom I loved very much] and he will do all that I want him to.'

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfHeart, DivineSpiritualityThe Witness Of GodDoing God's WillDeposingSaul And DavidReflecting God's Heart

They asked Pilate to have Him put to death, even though they could not find any [legitimate] reason to execute Him.

Verse ConceptsChrist Was Killed

Paul and Barnabas found out about it and escaped to the towns of Lystra and Derbe, in the province of Lycaonia, and elsewhere in the vicinity.

When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These men have turned the world upside down [i.e., disrupted society by their preaching] and have [now] come here also [i.e., to do the same thing in our community].

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownPulling PeopleNot FindingTroubling Groups Of PeopleCauses of failure in

He wanted these people to search for God in hope that, by groping for Him, they might [eventually] find Him, even though He is not [really] very far from [any of] us.

Verse ConceptsSeeking GodGod Is ImmanentGod's OmnipresenceNearness To GodFinding Godseeking

Then, while Apollos was [still] at Corinth, Paul traveled through the [western] districts and came to Ephesus where he found some disciples.

Verse ConceptsFindingRoadsflexibility

Here we found a ship heading across [the open sea] for Phoenicia, boarded it and sailed away.

Verse ConceptsCommerceSea Travelsailing

A loud commotion developed [in the Council meeting]. Some of the teachers of the law of Moses who belonged to the Pharisee party stood up and argued, saying, "We can find nothing wrong with this man. What if an angel or spirit did speak to him?"

Verse ConceptsTeachers Of The LawSpirit BeingsSound

I found out that he was being accused over questions regarding their law, but that they had no charges against him deserving of the death penalty, or [even] of being kept in prison.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersAccusations, Against Early ChristiansPeople Accusing PeopleTaking The Law To Heart

We have found this man [i.e., Paul] to be extremely bothersome, and an instigator of strife among the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Verse ConceptsHeresiesPersecution, Forms OfSectsFalse Accusations, Examples OfDissension

While doing this, they [i.e., the Jews] found out that I had undergone the rites of purification in the Temple. There was no crowd and no commotion. But certain Jews from [the province of] Asia

Verse ConceptsTumultDisciples In The Temple

Or let these men themselves [i.e., members of the Sanhedrin] testify what they found wrong with me when I stood before their Council [meeting].

Verse ConceptsSanhedrinWhat Sin?

So, he said, "Let your leaders go down with me and if there is anything [found] wrong with the man, let them bring their charges against him [at that time]."

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing PeopleWhat Sin?

but I found that he had committed nothing which deserved the death [penalty]. And since he himself appealed [his case] to the Emperor, I decided to send him [to Rome].

Verse ConceptsempiresDeserving Death

So, they tested for depth and found [they were in] feet [of water]. Then a little later they tested again and found it to be 90 Feet.

Verse ConceptsdepthDepthingNavigation

where we found [some Christian] brothers. They urged us to stay with them for seven days. So, [that is how] we finally got to Rome.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days

After questioning me, they wanted to release me because they could not find any grounds for sentencing me to death.

Verse ConceptsPeople Involved In JudgementPeople Releasing Others