So when they had come together, they asked Him, “Lord, are You restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

When they arrived, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying:

Peter, John,
James, Andrew,
Philip, Thomas,
Bartholomew, Matthew,
James the son of Alphaeus,
Simon the Zealot,
and Judas the son of James.

When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place.

When this sound occurred, a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

When they heard this, they came under deep conviction and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: “Brothers, what must we do?”

When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple complex, he asked for help.

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.

When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, “Master, You are the One who made the heaven, the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak God’s message with boldness.

When he heard these words, Ananias dropped dead, and a great fear came on all who heard.

Instantly she dropped dead at his feet. When the young men came in, they found her dead, carried her out, and buried her beside her husband.

As a result, they would carry the sick out into the streets and lay them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

In obedience to this, they entered the temple complex at daybreak and began to teach.

When the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full Senate of the sons of Israel—and sent orders to the jail to have them brought.

But when the temple police got there, they did not find them in the jail, so they returned and reported,

“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing in front of the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

After they brought them in, they had them stand before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked,

When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.

“Brothers and fathers,” he said, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors the first time.

and when he was left outside, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted and raised him as her own son.

When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he was approaching to look at it, the voice of the Lord came:

“This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?—this one God sent as a ruler and a redeemer by means of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David.

When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.

But when they believed Philip, as he preached the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.

When the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had welcomed God’s message, they sent Peter and John to them.

When Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to associate with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple.

When the brothers found out, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, he called two of his household slaves and a devout soldier, who was one of those who attended him.

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him.

That’s why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So I ask: Why did you send for me?”

When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who stressed circumcision argued with him,

When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.

Therefore, if God gave them the same gift that He also gave to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I possibly hinder God?”

When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, “So God has granted repentance resulting in life even to the Gentiles!”

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with a firm resolve of the heart,

and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, during the days of Unleavened Bread.

When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where many had assembled and were praying.

Peter, however, kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

When they had fulfilled all that had been written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and put Him in a tomb.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to oppose what Paul was saying by insulting him.

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

When an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to assault and stone them,

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men!”

The apostles Barnabas and Paul tore their robes when they heard this and rushed into the crowd, shouting:

Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they had won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.

When they had appointed elders in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

When they had been sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, explaining in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they created great joy among all the brothers.

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

When they read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.

When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, “Release those men!”

Then the police reported these words to the magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some scoundrels from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason’s house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that God’s message had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and disturbing the crowds.

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was troubled within him when he saw that the city was full of idols.

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him. But others said, “We’d like to hear from you again about this.”

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed the Lord, along with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

When they reached Ephesus he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and engaged in discussion with the Jews.

When he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers wrote to the disciples urging them to welcome him. After he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace.

and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”

“No,” they told him, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy.

But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them and met separately with the disciples, conducting discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

When these events were over, Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem. “After I’ve been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well!”

When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said: “Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business.

When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Then some of the crowd gave Alexander advice when the Jews pushed him to the front. So motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense to the people.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a united cry went up from all of them for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?

And when he had passed through those areas and exhorted them at length, he came to Greece

and stayed three months. When he was about to set sail for Syria, a plot was devised against him by the Jews, so a decision was made to go back through Macedonia.

and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

When he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.

And when they came to him, he said to them: “You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time—

When our days there were over, we left to continue our journey, while all of them, with their wives and children, escorted us out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach to pray,

When we completed our voyage from Tyre, we reached Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

When we reached Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us gladly.

When they heard it, they glorified God and said, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

Then the next day, Paul took the men, having purified himself along with them, and entered the temple, announcing the completion of the purification days when the offering for each of them would be made.

When Paul got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the mob’s violence,

After he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language:

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When they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even quieter.

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing by and approving, and I guarded the clothes of those who killed him.’

When the centurion heard this, he went and reported to the commander, saying, “What are you going to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”