Peter said to him. "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you! Rise and make your own bed!"

But Peter put them all out, and kneeled down, and prayed; and then turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, rise!" She opened her eyes, and on seeing Peter she sat up.

A voice came to him, saying, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

"Three men are now looking for you. Rise, go down and go with them, nothing doubting; for it is I who have sent them."

I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'

suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him saying, "Rise up quickly." At once the chains dropped from his hands.

explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."

"And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' and the Lord said to me, 'Rise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that you are destined to do.'

"'And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling upon his name.'

"'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you.

"how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."