As he went up, their eyes were fixed on heaven; but just then two men stood beside them dressed in white,

On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.

Well then, of the men who have been associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?"

On being released they went to their friends and related what the high priests and elders had said;

With these orders they went into the temple about dawn and proceeded to teach. Meantime the high priest and his allies met, called the Sanhedrin together and the council of seniors belonging to the sons of Israel, and then sent to prison for the men.

At this the commander went off with the attendants and fetched them ??but without using violence, for fear that the people would pelt them with stones.

and Jacob went south to Egypt. When he and our ancestors died,

When Moses saw this, he marvelled at the sight; and as he went up to look at it, the voice of the Lord said,

Now those who were scattered went through the land preaching the gospel.

After bearing their testimony to the word of the Lord and preaching it, the apostles went back to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to a number of the Samaritan villages;

So he got up and went on his way. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a high official of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians (he was her chief treasurer), who had come to Jerusalem for worship

When they came up from the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch lost sight of him. He went on his way rejoicing,

Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

So Ananias went off and entered the house, laying his hands on him with these words, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord, by Jesus who appeared to you on the road, to let you regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

He then went in and out among them at Jerusalem, speaking freely in the name of the Lord;

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him up to the room, where all the widows stood beside him crying as they showed him the garments and dresses that Dorcas used to make when she was with them.

Next day they were still on the road and not far from the town, when Peter went up to the roof of the house about noon to pray.

Then Peter went down to the men, saying, "I am the man you are looking for. What is your reason for coming?"

you know how it spread over the whole of Judaea, starting from Galilee after the baptism preached by John ??38 how God consecrated Jesus of Nazaret with the holy Spirit and power, and how he went about doing good and curing all who were harassed by the devil; for God was with him.

"You went into the houses of the uncircumcised," they said, "and you ate with them!"

The Spirit told me to have no hesitation in accompanying them; these six brothers went with me as well, and we entered the man's house.

So Barnabas went off to Tarsus to look for Saul,

and when he saw this pleased the Jews, he went on to seize Peter. (This was during the days of unleavened bread.)

When he grasped the situation, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was surnamed Mark, where a number had met for prayer.

He beckoned to them to keep quiet and then described to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Report this to James," he said, "and to the brothers." And off he went to another place.

Herod made inquiries for him but could not find him; so, after cross-examining the guards, he ordered them off to death. He then went down from Judaea to Caesarea, where he spent some time.

Sent out thus by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

Setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions reached Perga in Pamphylia; John left them and went back to Jerusalem,

but they passed on from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. On the sabbath they went into the synagogue and sat down;

As Paul and Barnabas went out, the people begged to have all this repeated to them on the following sabbath.

and the word of the Lord went far and wide over the whole country.

They shook the dust off their feet as a protest and went to Iconium.

At Iconium the same thing happened. They went into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a great body both of Jews and Greeks believed.

However, as the disciples gathered round him, he got up and went into the town. Next day he went off with Barnabas to Derbe,

and after speaking the word of the Lord in Perga they went down to Attaleia;

When the messengers were despatched, they went down to Antioch and after gathering the whole body they handed them the letter.

while Paul selected Silas and went off, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.

and so they passed Mysia by and went down to Troas.

On the sabbath we went outside the gate to the bank of the river, where as usual there was a place of prayer; we sat down and talked to the women who had gathered.

Now it happened as we went to the place of prayer that a slave-girl met us, possessed by a spirit of ventriloquism, and a source of great profit to her owners by her power of fortune-telling.

they went to appease them and after taking them out of prison begged them to leave the town.

So they left the prison and went to Lydia's house, where they saw the brothers and encouraged them; then they departed.

and Paul as usual went in; for three sabbaths he argued with them on the scriptures,

After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

When they reached Ephesus, Paul left them there. He went to the synagogue and argued with the Jews,

he reached Caesarea, went up to the capital to salute the church, and travelled down to Antioch.

After spending some time there he went off on a journey right through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening the disciples.

This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

When the tumult had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them; he then took leave of them and went his way to Macedonia.

They went on to wait for us at Troas,

In the window sat a young man called Eutychus, and as Paul's address went on and on, he got overcome with drowsiness, went fast asleep, and fell from the third storey. He was picked up a corpse,

but Paul went downstairs, threw himself upon him, and embraced him. "Do not lament," he said, "the life is still in him."

Then he went upstairs, broke bread, and ate; finally, after conversing awhile with them till the dawn, he went away.

Sailing thence on the following day we arrived off Chios; next day we crossed over to Samos, and [after stopping at Trogyllium] we went on next day to Miletus.

as we found a ship there bound for Phoenicia, we went on board and set sail.

and said goodbye to one another. We went on board and they went home.

Then Paul associated himself with the men next day; he had himself purified along with them and went into the temple to give notice of the time when the days of purification would be completed ??the time, that is to say, when the sacrifice could be offered for each one of them.

When they heard him addressing them in Hebrew they were all the more quiet. So he went on.

When the officer heard this, he went to the commander and said to him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."

So the commander went to him and said, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.

They then went to the high priests and elders, saying, "We have taken a solemn oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.

because it is not more than twelve days, as you can easily ascertain, since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

Three days after Festus entered his province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

After staying not more than eight or ten days with them, he went down to Caesarea. Next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought before him.

His father, it so happened, was laid up with fever and dysentery, but Paul went in to see him and after prayer laid his hands on him and cured him.