He had shown himself alive to them after he had suffered, in many convincing ways, appearing to them through forty days, and telling them about the Kingdom of God.

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."

You have made the ways of life known to me, And you will fill me with joy in your presence.'

Peter and John were on their way up to the Temple for the three o'clock hour of prayer,

when a man who had been lame from his birth was carried by. He used to be placed every day at what was known as the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, to beg from the people on their way into the Temple,

it was in this way that God fulfilled what he by all the prophets foretold that his Christ must suffer.

As they were talking in this way to the people, the high priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came up to them,

But after further threats they let them go, as they could find no way to punish them, on account of the people, who were all giving honor to God for what had happened,

After they had given their testimony and delivered the Lord's message, they went back to Jerusalem, telling the good news in many Samaritan villages on the way.

and was on his way home. He was sitting in his car, reading the prophet Isaiah.

while Philip found himself at Ashdod and went on telling the good news in all the towns all the way to Caesarea.

and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there who belonged to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

The next day, while they were still on their way, and were just getting near the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray.

While Peter was still wondering what the vision he had had could mean, the men whom Cornelius had sent had asked the way to Simon's house and reached the door,

The fugitives from the persecution that had broken out over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they told the message to none but Jews.

The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

Being sent out in this way by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

At Iconium in the same way, they went to the Jewish synagogue and spoke with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

In ages past he let all the heathen follow their own ways;

When they arrived there, they called the church together, and reported how God had worked with them, and how he had opened the way to faith for the heathen.

In my opinion, therefore, we ought not to put obstacles in the way of those of the heathen who are turning to God,

Once as we were on our way to the praying place a slave-girl met us who had the gift of ventriloquism, and made her masters a great deal of money by her fortune-telling.

This girl would follow Paul and the rest of us, crying out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are making known to you a way of salvation."

The men who went with Paul took him all the way to Athens, and came back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin him as soon as possible.

"This fellow," they said, "is trying to induce people to worship God in ways that are against the law."

He had had some instruction about the Way of the Lord, and he talked with burning zeal and taught painstakingly about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

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.

But as some of them were obstinate and refused to believe, finding fault with the Way before the people, he left them, and withdrew the disciples, and held daily discussions in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

After these events, Paul, under the Spirit's guidance, resolved to go to Jerusalem, and to revisit Macedonia and Greece on the way. "After I have gone there," he said, "I must see Rome also."

Just at that time a great commotion arose about the Way.

where he stayed for three months. Just as he was going to sail for Syria, the Jews made a plot against him, and he made up his mind to return by way of Macedonia.

I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there,

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison,

But on my way, as I was approaching Damascus, suddenly about noon, a blaze of light flashed around me from heaven,

I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,

Then Felix, who was somewhat well informed about the Way, adjourned the trial, saying to the Jews, "When Lysias, the colonel, comes down here, I will decide your case."

and begged him as a favor to order Paul to come to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.

The way I lived from my youth up, spending my early life among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is well known to all Jews,

The ship was caught by it and could not face the wind, so we gave way and let her run before it.