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and with his wife's full knowledge he kept back some of the money for himself, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Verse ConceptsBad ConsciencesCorrupted ConsciencesCheatingKnowing FactsPutting Things DownThe Apostles In ActionPeople Giving Other Thingscouples

so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and pallets, so that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

Verse ConceptsShadowsBedsUsing RoadsPeople Carrying Live PeopleHope And Healing

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

Verse ConceptsClaimsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredGreat IndividualsPeople Following PeopleScattering FollowersKilling Named Individualsmovement

After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some people after him; he too perished, and all those who followed him were scattered.

Verse ConceptsCensusHistoryPeople Following PeopleScattering Followers

Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen.

Verse ConceptsAlexandria The CityConfrontationMissionaries, Support ForSynagogueGod, Impartiality OfFalse Teachers, Examples OfDisputes

And as they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?"

Verse ConceptsRoadsSin, Accepting Forgiveness OfWater For BaptismChristian BaptismHindrancesBaptism

So he invited them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went off with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, ministry ofInvitationsGoing TogetherWelcoming Other People

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, ministry ofevangelism, nature ofMissionaries, Task OfAntioch in SyriaPreaching Gospel To Foreigners

Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Verse ConceptsVisitingAnonymity

Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to persecute them.

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Forms OfLaying On Hands For Evilharassment

But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

Verse ConceptsDissensionDivisions Of OpinionIsrael HardenedThe Apostles In Action

But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

Verse ConceptsCouncil of JerusalemAbraham, Family And DescendantsExclusivenessBarnabasHeresiesDenominationsMisteachingNecessity Of CircumcisionSalvation By Other Things

And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.

Verse Conceptselders, in the churchBelieversVisitingDissensionDisputesMan AppointingThe Apostles In ActionResolving Conflict

But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up, and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the Law of Moses."

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessCircumcision, physicalBelieversHeresiesJudaismSectsNecessity Of CircumcisionThose Who Believed In ChristKeep The Commandments!pharisees

Since we have heard that some persons from us have disturbed you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,

Verse ConceptsHeresyMen's OrdersTroubling Groups Of People

And after they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brethren to those who had sent them.

Verse ConceptsPeople Sending Peoplespace

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brethren in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are."

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineConverts To ChristianityMissionariesChristians Being Called Brothers

and from there to Philippi, which is the leading city of the district of Macedonia, and a Roman colony. We stayed in this city some days;

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofProvinces

And some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas; as did a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and not a few of the leading women.

Verse ConceptsDevout MenGreeksReverence, And ObedienceConverts To ChristianityProselytesJoined To The ChurchThose Who Believed In Christ

But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men from the market place, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; they attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the people.

Verse ConceptsEnvyIntoleranceJealousyMarketsUnbelieversEnvy, Example OfUnbelief, Examples OfDisorder Among PeopleBringing People Out Of Other PlacesIsrael HardenedMaking Israel Jealous

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownPulling PeopleNot FindingTroubling Groups Of PeopleCauses of failure in

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some said, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,"because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

Verse ConceptsBabblersevangelism, nature ofPhilosophyResurrection, Of The DeadFalse Teachers, Examples OfScoffersAmateursAmbiguityEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."

Verse ConceptsMeaning

Now when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We want to hear you again on this subject."

Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleGospel, Responses ToInsultsMockeryNosesPreaching, Effects OfSaying RepeatedlyAre The Dead Raised?Mocking Christflexibility

But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

Verse ConceptsConverts To ChristianityThose Who Believed In Christ

After spending some time there, he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Task OfPaul, Life OfTravelMissionary WorkSpecific Cases Of Strengthening

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.

Verse ConceptsFindingRoadsflexibility

But when some were stubborn and disbelieved, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofUnbelief, As Response To GodWay, TheUnbelief, Sourced InUnbelief, Results Of Being GuiltyUnbelief, Examples OfDiscussionsSchoolsObstinate IndividualsOnce A DaySchoolChristians Are Called Followers Of The Way

But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."

Verse ConceptsMagical Arts, Practice Ofdriving outSuperstitionAdjurationWanderersPeople Casting Out DemonsIn The Name Of ChristThose DemonisedDemonsCasting Out Demons

Some of the Asiarchs also, who were friends of his, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

Verse Conceptsrisk

Now some were shouting one thing, some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and most of the people did not know why they had come together.

Verse ConceptsConfusionAssemblyDisorder Among PeopleGroups ShoutingWhy Do Others Do This?

Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward. And Alexander motioned with his hand, wishing to make a defense to the people.

As we were staying there for some days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to lodge.

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfIslandsflexibility

At once he took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to them; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Verse ConceptsOfficersSoldiersCessationStopping FightingGroups RunningBeating Believers

Some in the crowd shouted one thing, and some another; and as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTCastlesExcitementSoundGroups Shouting

Then you are not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?"

Verse ConceptsFour ThousandTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

There occurred a great uproar; and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and began to argue heatedly, saying, "We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"

Verse ConceptsTeachers Of The LawSpirit BeingsSound

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought their charges against Paul before the governor.

Verse ConceptsAttorneyGovernorsHigh Priest, In NtFour Or Five DaysPeople Accusing People

As I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia

Verse ConceptsTumultDisciples In The Temple

Then he gave orders to the centurion for him to be kept in custody but have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from ministering to his needs.

Verse ConceptsCenturionGuardsPeople Set Free By Peoplerelaxation

But some days later Felix came with Drusilla, his wife who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds of

but they simply had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

Verse ConceptsChrist's LifeThe Fact Of Christ's Deathconnection

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

Verse ConceptsCenturionRoman Emperorssailing

But we must run aground on some island."

As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense and without food, having taken nothing.

Verse ConceptsDawnFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Nature OfTen Or More Days

Therefore I urge you to take some food; it will give you strength, since not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you."

Verse ConceptsHairsHeadsHealthKept Alive By GodHairs ProtectedEncouragementHairpreservation

There we found some brethren, and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days