It was at that time that Peter got up among the brothers??here were about a hundred and twenty persons present??nd said,

"So one of the men who has been associated with us all the time that the Lord Jesus moved about among us,

"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

"Brothers, one may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his grave is here among us to this very day.

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.'

But to keep it from spreading farther among the people, let us warn them to say nothing to anyone else at all about this person."

No one among them was in any want, for any who owned lands or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sale

and men and women in increasing numbers believed in the Lord and joined them. Signs and wonders in great numbers continued to be done among the people by the apostles,

Stephen, greatly strengthened by God's favor, did remarkable signs and wonders among the people.

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.'

The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.

As Peter was traveling about among them all, he happened to visit God's people at Lydda.

Among the disciples at Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, which is in Greek Dorcas, that is, gazelle. She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity.

There were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them, however, who when they reached Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, and told them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

But when morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.

Brothers! Descendants of the house of Abraham, and those others among you who reverence God! It is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

Now David, after serving God's purposes in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid among his forefathers and did undergo decay,

The church saw them off upon their journey, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria they told of the conversion of the heathen, and caused great rejoicing among all the brothers.

This quieted the whole meeting, and they listened while Barnabas and Paul told of the signs and wonders which God had done among the heathen through them.

Symeon has told how God first showed an interest in taking from among the heathen a people to bear his name.

Then the apostles and elders with the whole church resolved to select representatives and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. They were Judas who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.

This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.

Some persons joined him, however, and became believers, among them Dionysius, a member of the council, and a woman named Damaris, and some others.

When they came, he said to them, "You know well enough how I lived among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,

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,

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.

Paul greeted them warmly and gave a detailed account of what God had done among the heathen through his efforts.

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

They have been told that you teach all Jews who live among the heathen to turn away from Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children nor to observe the old customs.

He immediately got some officers and men and hurried down among them, and when they saw the colonel and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul.

For we have found this man a pest and a disturber of the peace among Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect,

and they have never found me debating with anyone in the Temple, or creating a disturbance among the people in the synagogues or about the city,

Or let these men themselves tell what they found wrong in me when I appeared before the council??21 unless it was the one thing I shouted out as I stood among them??It is on the question of the resurrection of the dead that I am here on trial before you today!' "

The way I lived from my youth up, spending my early life among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is well known to all Jews,

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

Then, when they had gone a long time without food, Paul got up among them, and said, "Gentlemen, you ought to have listened to me and not to have sailed from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss.

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.

As they could not agree among themselves, they started to leave, when Paul added one last word. "The holy Spirit put it finely," he said, "when it said to your forefathers through the prophet Isaiah,