up to the day when through the Holy Spirit He gave the apostles whom He had chosen their orders, and then was taken up to heaven.

So those who were present began to ask Him, "Lord, is this the time when you are going to set up the kingdom again for Israel?"

but you are going to receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you must be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

When they reached the city, they went to the room upstairs where they had been staying; they were: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

from the time of His baptism by John down to the day when He was taken up from us, must be added to our number as a witness to His resurrection."

When the day of Pentecost had now come, they were all meeting in one mind,

when suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a terrific blast of wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting,

And when this sound was heard, the crowd rushed together in great excitement, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

When they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.

When all the people saw him walking about and praising God,

When Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Fellow Israelites, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you keep staring at us, as though we had by our own power or piety made this man walk?

And you are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the sacred compact which God made with your forefathers, when He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth are to be blessed through your posterity.'

When they were turned loose, the apostles went back to their companions and told them what the high priests and elders had said to them.

When they heard this, with one united prayer to God they said: "O Lord, you are the Maker of heaven, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them, and the One

When they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and continued courageously to speak God's message.

As long as it was unsold, was it not yours, and when it was sold, was not the money at your disposal? How could you have the heart to do such a thing! You did not lie to men but to God!"

When Ananias heard these words, he fell dead, and a strange awe seized everybody who heard it.

She instantly fell dead at his feet. When the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

When the military commander of the temple square and the high priest heard this, they were utterly at a loss to know how this might turn out.

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

When he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. Thus

When forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight, and when he went up to look at it, the voice of the Lord said to him,

This tent our forefathers brought in and passed on when under Joshua they dispossessed the nations which God drove out before them, and it remained until the time of David.

But when the people came to believe the good news proclaimed by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were constantly baptized.

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

So when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

and said, "Give me this power too, that when I lay my hands on anyone he may receive the Holy Spirit."

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away; the official saw him no more, for he went on home rejoicing;

Now when Saul arrived at Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples there, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was really a disciple.

So when the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and from there sent him back to Tarsus.

So Peter at once got up and went with them. When he reached there, they took him to the room upstairs, and all the widows took their stand around him, crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

Then Peter put them all out of the room, knelt down and prayed, and, turning to the body, said, "Tabitha, get up!" Then she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

When Peter went into the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and did homage to him.

So when Peter returned to Jerusalem, the champions of circumcision began to bring charges against him

When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them as He did upon us at the beginning,

So if God had given them the same gift that He gave us when we believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to try -- and how could I if I tried -- to thwart God?"

When they heard this, they had no answer to make, but gave God the glory, saying, "So God has given even the heathen the repentance that leads to life."

When he reached there and saw the spiritual blessing God had given them, he was delighted, and continuously encouraged them all with hearty purpose to continue to be devoted to the Lord;

and when he saw that this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too -- it was at the time of the feast of Unleavened Bread.

They passed the first guard, then the second, and at last came to the iron gate which led into the city. The gate of itself opened to them, and they passed out and proceeded one block when all at once the angel left him.

When he became conscious of his situation, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, were a large number of people had met and were praying.

When he knocked at the outer door, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it,

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

When morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Herod had search made for him, and when he could not find him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be put to death. Then he left Judea for Caesarea, and stayed there.

When Barnabas and Saul had finished their helpful service, they returned from Jerusalem, and took along with them John who was called Mark.

When they reached Salamis, they began to preach God's message in the Jewish synagogues. They had John with them as their assistant.

When they had carried out everything that had been written in the Scriptures about Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were completely overcome by their jealousy and began to contradict the statements made by Paul, and even to abuse him.

And so when there was a movement on the part of both the heathen and the Jews, along with their authorities, to insult and stone them,

But the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, when they heard it, tore their clothes and rushed into the crowd,

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported what God had done through them as instruments.

When they finished, James responded as follows: "Brothers, listen to me.

When they had read it, they were delighted with the encouragement it brought them.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us by continuing to say, "If you have made up your mind that I am a real believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she continued to insist that we do so.

When the jailer awoke and saw that the jail doors were open, he drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

When day broke, the chiefs of the police court sent policemen with the message to let the men go.

The policemen reported this message to the chiefs of the police court, and they became alarmed when they heard that they were Roman citizens,

But when the Jews at Thessalonica learned that God's message had been proclaimed at Berea by Paul, they came there too to excite the masses and stir up a riot.

But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some sneered, but others said, "We will hear you again on this subject."

When he reached Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church there; then he went down to Antioch.

He started speaking courageously in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home with them and more accurately explained the way of God to him.

and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered him, "So far from that, we never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

and when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in foreign tongues and to prophesy.

When they heard this, they became furious and kept on shouting, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!"

When the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he bade them goodbye and started off for Macedonia.

On the first day of the week when we had met to break bread, Paul addressed them, since he was leaving the next day, and prolonged his speech till midnight.

So when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and sailed on to Mitylene.

When they arrived, he said to them: "You know how I lived among you all the time from the day I first set foot in the province of Asia, and how I continued

When we had torn ourselves away from them, we struck a bee line for Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

But when our time was up, we left there and went on, and all of them with their wives and children accompanied us out of town. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed;

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

When we reached Jerusalem, the brothers there gave us a hearty welcome.

They gave the glory to God, when they heard it, and said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous champions of the law.

Then Paul took the men along with him and on the next day went into the temple with them, purified, and announced the time when the purification would be completed, when the sacrifice for each one of them could be offered.

When Paul got to the steps, he was actually borne by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob,

When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued:

and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and held the clothes of those who killed him.'

But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?"

When the captain heard that, he went to the colonel and reported it. Then he asked him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."

So the men who were going to examine him left him at once, and the colonel himself was frightened when he learned that he was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

When he said that, an angry dispute arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the crowded court was divided.

This man had been seized by the Jews and they were on the point of killing him when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

When Paul was called, Tertullus opened the prosecution by saying: "Your Excellency, Felix, since we are enjoying perfect peace through you and since reforms for this nation are being brought about through your foresight,

Or let these men themselves tell what wrong they found in me when I appeared before the council --

Then Felix, who had a fairly clear conception of the principles involved in The Way, adjourned the trial, saying to the Jews, "When Lysias, the colonel, comes down here, I will carefully look into your case."

But as he continued to talk about uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "For the present you may go, but when I find a good opportunity, I will send for you."

When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and continued to bring a number of serious charges against him, none of which they could prove.

and when I was in Jerusalem, the Jewish high priests and elders presented their case against him, and continued to ask for a judgment against him.

But when his accusers appeared before me, they did not charge him with the crimes of which I had been suspecting him.

That was what I did at Jerusalem; yes, I received authority from the high priests and shut behind the prison bars many of God's people. Yes, when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, and often in all the synagogues

When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they turned over Paul and some other prisoners to a colonel of the imperial regiment, named Julius.

When a light breeze from the south began to blow, thinking their purpose was about to be realized, they weighed anchor and coasted along by Crete, hugging the shore,

It was now the fourteenth night and we were drifting on the Adriatic sea, when at midnight the sailors suspected that land was near.

When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

When day broke, they could not recognize the land, but they spied a bay that had a beach, and determined, if possible, to run the ship ashore.

When the natives saw the reptile hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Beyond a doubt this man is a murderer, for though he has been rescued from the sea, justice will not let him live."