Then the soldiers took Paul, as they had been ordered to do, and escorted him as far as Antipatris that night.

The men who went with Paul took him all the way to Athens, and came back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin him as soon as possible.

This man had been seized by the Jews and they were just going to kill him when I came upon them with my men and rescued him, as I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him as the means of delivering them, but they did not.

Peter fixed his eyes on him, as John did also, and said to him, "Look at us!"

and recognized him as the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were perfectly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.

and begged him as a favor to order Paul to come to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.

There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.