Also, as he ate with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father promised ??"for what you have heard me speak of," said he;

They were all amazed and quite at a loss. "What can it mean?" they said to one another.

But Peter stood up along with the eleven, and raising his voice he addressed them thus: "Men of Judaea and residents in Jerusalem, let everyone of you understand this ??attend to what I say:

No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel ??17 In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:

Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.)

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?"

So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

when a man lame from birth was carried past, who used to be laid every day at what was called the 'Beautiful Gate' of the temple, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.

But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!"

and when they recognized this was the very man who used to sit and beg at the Gate Beautiful, they were lost in awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

As he clung to Peter and John, all the people rushed awestruck to them in what was called Solomon's portico.

Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers ??18 though this was how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the lips of all the prophets, namely the sufferings of his Christ.

They made the men stand before them and inquired, "By what authority, in whose name, have you done this?"

"What are we to do with these men?" they said. "It is plain to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem that a miracle has admittedly been worked by them. That we cannot deny.

Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."

Then they threatened them still further and let them go; on account of the people they found themselves unable to find any means of punishing them, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened

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

mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

After an interval of about three hours his wife happened to come in, quite unconscious of what had occurred.

On hearing this the commander of the temple and the high priests were quite at a loss to know what to make of it.

Then he said, "Men of Israel, take care what you do about these men.

What God said was this: 'His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

They told Aaron, 'Make gods that will march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him!'

They actually made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to this idol, and grew festive over what their own hands had manufactured.

Heaven is my throne, the earth is a footstool for my feet! What house would you build me? saith the Lord. On what spot could I settle?

And the crowds attended like one man to what was said by Philip, listening to him and watching the miracles he performed.

When Philip ran up, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. "Do you really understand what you are reading?"

As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

Get up and go into the city. There you will be told what you have to do."

He stared at the angel in terror, saying, "What is it?" He replied, "Your prayers and your alms have risen before God as a sacrifice to be remembered.

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

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

They said, "Cornelius, a captain, a good man who reverences God and enjoys a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house and to listen to what you had to say."

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."

As for what he did in the land of the Jews and of Jerusalem, we can testify to that. They slew him by hanging him on a gibbet,

While Peter was still speaking, the holy Spirit fell upon all who listened to what he said.

But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'

And he followed him out, not realizing that what the angel did was real, but imagining that he saw a vision.

Now when day broke there was a great commotion among the soldiers over what could have become of Peter.

Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had happened; he was astounded at the doctrine of the Lord.

And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'

But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

Now when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"

shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

On their arrival they gathered the church together and reported how God had been with them, what he had done, and how he had opened a door into faith for the Gentiles.

On arriving at Jerusalem they were received by the church, the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported how God had been with them and what he had done.

Among the listeners there was a woman called Lydia, a dealer in purple who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She reverenced God, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.

and brought them out (after securing the other prisoners). "Sirs," he said, "what must I do to be saved?"

Then taking him to the Areopagus they asked, "May we know what is this novel teaching of yours?

You talk of some things that sound strange to us; so we want to know what they mean."

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

In the synagogue he was very outspoken at first; but when Aquila and Priscilla listened to him, they took him home and explained more accurately to him what the Way of God really meant.

"Then," said he, "what were you baptized in?" "In John's baptism," they replied.

Now here I go to Jerusalem under the binding force of the Spirit. What will befall me there, I do not know.

Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

and after saluting them Paul described in detail what God had done by means of his ministry among the Gentiles.

What is to be done? They will be sure to hear you have arrived.

Then the commander came up and seized him; he ordered him to be bound with a couple of chains, and asked "Who is he?" and "What has he done?"

I said, 'What am I to do?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and make your way into Damascus; there?you shall be told about all you are destined to do.'

For you are to be a witness for him before all men, a witness of what you have seen and heard.

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."

The bystanders said, "What! would you rail at God's high priest?"

Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"

The commander then took him by the hand aside and asked him in private, "What is the news you have for me?"

On reading the letter he asked what province he belonged to, and finding it was Cilicia

I certainly admit to you that I worship our fathers' God according to the methods of what they call a 'sect'; but I believe all that is written in the Law and in the prophets,

Failing them, let these men yonder tell what fault they found with my appearance before the Sanhedrin! ??21 unless it was with the single sentence I uttered, when I stood and said, 'It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial to-day before you.'"

Some days later Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus;

Now get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you to my service as a witness to what you have seen and to the visions you shall have of me.

To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place.

"Long or short," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you but all my hearers to-day could be what I am ??barring these chains!"

When day broke, they could not recognize what land it was; however, they noticed a creek with a sandy beach, and resolved to see if they could run the ship ashore there.

Some were convinced by what he said, but the others would not believe.