This fact was well known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that the piece of land came to be called in their language Akeldamach, the bloody field.)

for the promise of it belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those far away whom the Lord our God calls to him."

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

But the Jews stirred up the well-to-do religious women and the leading men of the town, and they started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

that you avoid whatever has been sacrificed to idols, the tasting of blood and of the meat of animals that have been strangled, and immorality. Keep yourselves free from these things and you will get on well. Goodbye."

This went on for two years, so that everyone who lived in Asia, Greeks as well as Jews, heard the Lord's message.

This came to be known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, Greeks as well as Jews, and great awe came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus came to be held in high honor.

When they came, he said to them, "You know well enough how I lived among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,

but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

Now I know perfectly well that none of you among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God will ever see my face again.

You know well enough that these hands of mine provided for my needs and my companions.

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."

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,