Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the Temple.

This is how God fulfilled what he had predicted through the voice of all the prophets that his Messiah would suffer.

since none of them needed anything, because everyone who had land or houses would sell them and bring the money received for the things sold

"This is what God promised: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and its people would enslave them and oppress them for 400 years.

By shrewdly scheming against our people, he oppressed our ancestors and forced them to abandon their infants to the elements, so that they wouldn't live.

He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.

He has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so he would see again."

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they all were afraid of him because they wouldn't believe he was a disciple.

One of them named Agabus got up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine all over the world. This happened during the reign of Claudius.

So all of the disciples decided they would send a contribution to the brothers living in Judea, as they were able,

"Look, you mockers! Be amazed and die! Since I am performing an action in your days, one that you would not believe even if someone told you!'"

When they arrived, they called the church together and told them everything that God had done with them and how he had opened a door so that gentiles would believe.

After a lengthy debate, Peter stood up and told them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days, God chose me to be the one among you through whom the gentiles would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

She would follow Paul and us and shout, "These men are servants of the Most High God and are proclaiming to you a way of salvation!"

It sounds rather strange to our ears, and we would like to know what it means."

Every Sabbath, he would speak in the synagogue, trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

Paul was about to speak when Gallio admonished the Jewish leaders, "If there were some misdemeanor or crime involved, it would be reasonable to put up with you Jews.

Paul wanted to go into the crowd, but the disciples wouldn't let him.

I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.

They were especially sorrowful because of what he had said that they would never see his face again. Then they took him to the ship.

Then Paul took those men and the next day purified himself with them. Then he went into the Temple to announce the time when their days of purification would end and when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them.

The quarrel was becoming violent, and the tribune was afraid that they would tear Paul to pieces. So he ordered the soldiers to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

At the same time he was hoping to receive a bribe from Paul, and so he would send for him frequently to talk with him.

Festus replied that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself would be going there soon.

I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters, so I asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there for these things.

Agrippa told Festus, "I would like to hear the man." "Tomorrow," he said, "you will hear him."

They have known for a long time, if they would but testify to it, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the standards of our strictest religious party.

I would even punish them frequently in every synagogue and try to make them blaspheme. Raging furiously against them, I would hunt them down even in distant cities.

I've had help from God to this day, and so I stand here to testify to both the powerful and the lowly alike, stating only what the prophets and Moses said would happen

that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and would bring light both to our people and to the gentiles."

Paul replied, "Whether quickly or not, I wish to God that not only you but everyone listening to me today would become what I am except for these chains!"

The ship's crew pulled it up on deck and used ropes to brace the ship. Fearing that they would hit the large sandbank near Libya, they lowered the sail and drifted along.

After they had gone a long time without food, Paul stood among his shipmates and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete. You would have avoided this hardship and damage.

From morning until evening, he continued to explain the kingdom of God to them, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets. Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others wouldn't believe.