"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the holy Spirit."

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

" 'It will come about in the last days, God says, That I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; Your sons and daughters will become prophets, Your young men will have visions, And your old men will have dreams.

Even on my slaves, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, And they will become prophets.

I will show wonders in the sky above, And signs on the earth below, Blood and fire and thick smoke.

The sun will turn to darkness, And the moon to blood, Before the coming of the great, splendid Day of the Lord.

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices, And my body will still live in hope.

For you will not desert my soul in death, You will not let your Holy One be destroyed.

You have made the ways of life known to me, And you will fill me with joy in your presence.'

Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,

But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!"

So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,

and he will send Jesus, your destined Christ.

Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, as he raised me up. You must listen to everything that he tells you.

Anyone that will not listen to that prophet will be annihilated from among the people.'

You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the agreement that God made with your forefathers when he said to Abraham, 'Through your posterity all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

to carry out what your hand and will had destined should happen.

Peter said to her, "How could you two agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? There at the door are the footsteps of the men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out also."

So in the present case, I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this idea or movement is of human origin, it will come to naught,

but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop it. You may actually find yourselves fighting God!"

You, brothers, must pick out from your number seven men of good standing, who are wise and full of the Spirit, and we will put them in charge of this matter,

for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down and change the customs that have been handed down to us by Moses."

and he said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives and come to the country that I will show you.'

This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years,

and I will sentence the nation that has enslaved them,' God said, 'and afterward they will leave that country and worship me on this spot.'

I have seen all the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and I have come down to save them. So come! I will make you my messenger to Egypt!'

This was the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will make a prophet rise from among your brothers to teach you, just as he made me rise.'

You offered me the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rompha, The images you had made to worship! So I will deport you beyond Babylon.'

His sentence ended in his humiliation. Who will tell the story of his posterity? For his life is perished from the earth."

"But get up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you ought to do."

For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."

with all kinds of quadrupeds, reptiles, and wild birds in it.

It is of him that all the prophets bear witness that everyone that believes in him will have his sins forgiven in his name."

and when I looked at it, I saw in it quadrupeds, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

and he will tell you things that will save you and your whole household.'

and I remembered the saying of the Lord, 'John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the holy Spirit.'

and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! You son of the devil! You enemy of all that is right! Will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked?

The Lord's hand is right upon you, and you will be blind and unable even to see the sun for a time." Instantly a mist of darkness fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to lead him by the hand.

Then he removed him and raised David up to be their king, bearing this testimony to him: 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all that I desire.'

Now as evidence that he has raised him from the dead, never again to return to decay, he said this: 'I will fulfil to you my sacred promises to David.'

For in another psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One undergo decay.'

" 'Look, you scoffers! Then wonder and begone! For I am doing something in your times Which you will never believe even when it is related to you!' "

" 'Afterward I will return, and rebuild David's fallen dwelling. I will rebuild its very ruins, and set it up again,

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."

"Believe in the Lord Jesus," they said, "and you and your household will be saved!"

since he has fixed a day on which he will justly judge the world through a man whom he has appointed, and whom he has guaranteed to all men by raising him from the dead."

But as they contradicted and abused him, he shook his clothes in protest, and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not to blame for it! After this I will go to the heathen."

He bade them goodbye, saying, "I will come back to you again if it is God's will." Then he sailed from Ephesus.

There is danger, therefore, not only that this business of ours will be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be neglected and the magnificence of her whom all Asia and the world worship will be a thing of the past!"

For we are in danger of being charged with rioting in connection with today's events, though there is really nothing about this commotion that we will not be able to explain."

I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there,

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.

I know that after I am gone savage wolves will get in among you and will not spare the flock,

and from your own number men will appear and teach perversions of the truth in order to draw the disciples away after them.

Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.

He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "

So as he would not yield, we gave up urging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"

What then? They will be sure to hear that you have come.

Join them, undergo the rites of purification with them, and pay their expenses so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will understand that there is no truth in the stories about you, but that you yourself observe the Law.

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

Then I said, 'What am I to do, sir?' The Lord said to me, 'Get up and go into Damascus. There you will be told of all you are destined to do.'

and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak,

and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "

Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Do you sit there to try me by the Law, and order them to strike me in violation of the Law?"

Now you and the council must suggest to the colonel that he should have Paul brought down to you, as you mean to look into his case more carefully, and we will be ready to kill him before he gets down."

he said, "I will hear your case as soon as your accusers arrive." And he gave orders that he should be kept in Herod's palace.

If you will examine him yourself you will be able to find out from him all about the things we charge him with."

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."

But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."

Then Festus, wishing to gratify the Jews, said to Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there before me on these charges?"

But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me.

I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you

Even now, I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

So keep up your courage, gentlemen! For I have faith in God that it will be just as I was told.

I beg you to eat something; it is necessary for your safety. For not one of you will lose even a hair of his head."

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "This man is undoubtedly a murderer, for though he has been saved from the sea, justice will not let him live."

" 'Go to this Nation and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, And you will look, and look, and never see!

"Understand then that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen. They will listen to it!"