However, Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold, but I'll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus the Messiah from Nazareth, walk!"

If we are being questioned today for a good deed done for someone who was sick or to learn how this man was healed,

They said, "What should we do with these men? For it's obvious to everybody living in Jerusalem that an unmistakable sign has been done by them, and we cannot deny it.

When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear seized everyone who heard about it.

She instantly fell down at Peter's feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

So Jacob went down to Egypt. Then he and our ancestors died.

You don't want to kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?'

I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I've heard their groans, and I've come down to rescue them. Now come, I'll send you to Egypt.'

They told Aaron, "Make gods for us who will lead us. This Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt we don't know what happened to him!'

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" After he had said this, he died.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began to preach the Messiah to the people.

They went down and prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit.

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell how much evil this man has done to your saints in Jerusalem.

but his disciples took him one night and let him down through the city wall by lowering him in a basket.

When the brothers found out about the plot, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

Peter made them all go outside. After kneeling down, he prayed, turned to the body, and said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

Around noon the next day, while they were on their way and coming close to the town, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.

Get up, go downstairs, and don't hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them."

When Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him, bowed down at his feet, and began to worship him.

"I was in the town of Joppa praying when in a trance I saw a vision: Something like a large linen sheet descended down from heaven, lowered by its four corners, and it came right down to me.

When they heard this, they calmed down, and praised God by saying, "So God has given repentance that leads to life even to gentiles."

When he arrived, he rejoiced to see what the grace of God had done, and with hearty determination he kept encouraging all of them to remain faithful to the Lord,

At that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch.

So Peter went out and began to follow him, not realizing that what was being done by the angel was real; he thought he was seeing a vision.

Herod searched for him but didn't find him, so he questioned the guards and ordered them to be executed. Then he left Judea, went down to Caesarea, and stayed there for a while.

Therefore, at a set time Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the royal seat, and made a speech to them.

Immediately the angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

They left Perga and arrived in Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath day, they went into the synagogue and sat down.

When they had finished doing everything that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.

The next Sabbath almost the whole town gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

They stayed there a considerable time and continued to speak boldly for the Lord, who kept affirming his word of grace and granting signs and wonders to be done by them.

Now in Lystra there was a man sitting down who couldn't use his feet. He had been crippled from birth and had never walked.

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us!"

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds by persuasion. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking he was dead.

But the disciples formed a circle around him, and he got up and went back to town. The next day, he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

They spoke the word in Perga and went down to Attalia.

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.

Then some men came down from Judea and started to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Law of Moses, you can't be saved."

When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done through them.

The whole crowd was silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul tell about all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the gentiles.

A few days later, Paul told Barnabas, "Let's go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they're doing."

As they went from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for them to obey.

so they bypassed Mysia and went down to Troas.

On the Sabbath day, we went out the city gate and walked along the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and began talking to the women who had gathered there.

But Paul shouted in a loud voice, "Don't hurt yourself, because we are all here!"

When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These fellows who have turned the world upside down have come here, too,

One night, the Lord told Paul in a vision, "Stop being afraid to speak out! Don't remain silent!

When the city recorder had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world doesn't know that this city of Ephesus is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell down from heaven?

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

But Paul went down, bent over him, took him into his arms, and said, "Stop being alarmed, because he's still alive."

Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left.

except that in town after town the Holy Spirit assures me that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.

But I don't place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

When Paul had said this, he knelt down and prayed with all of them.

When he could not be persuaded otherwise, we remained silent except to say, "May the Lord's will be done."

After greeting them, Paul related one by one the things that God had done among the gentiles through his ministry.

What is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.

Immediately the tribune took some soldiers and officers and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Then the tribune came up, grabbed Paul, and ordered him to be tied up with two chains. He then asked who Paul was and what he had done.

The tribune gave him permission, and Paul, standing on the steps, motioned for the people to be silent. When everyone had quieted down, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language:

The next day, since the tribune wanted to find out exactly what Paul was being accused of by the Jews, he released him and ordered the high priests and the entire Council to meet. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

Paul looked straight at the Council and said, "Brothers, with a clear conscience I have done my duty before God up to this very day."

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.

Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."

He answered, "The Jewish leaders have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the Council tomorrow as though they were going to examine his case more carefully.

Don't believe them, because more than 40 of them are planning to ambush him. They've taken an oath not to eat or drink before they've killed him. They are ready now, just waiting for your consent."

"Therefore," he said, "have your authorities come down with me and present their charges against him there, if there is anything wrong with the man."

Festus stayed with them no more than eight or ten days and then went down to Caesarea. The next day, he sat on the judge's seat and ordered Paul brought in.

When Paul arrived, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.

Paul said in his defense, "I have done nothing wrong against the Law of the Jews, or of the Temple, or of the emperor."

But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's judgment seat where I ought to be tried. I haven't done anything wrong to the Jewish leaders, as you know very well.

If I'm guilty and have done something that deserves death, I'm willing to die. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to the emperor!"

So they came here with me, and the next day without any delay I sat down in the judge's seat and ordered the man to be brought in.

I find that he has not done anything deserving of death. But since he has appealed to his Majesty, I have decided to send him.

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.

Indeed, the king knows about these things, and I can speak to him freely. For I'm certain that none of these things has escaped his notice, since this wasn't done in a corner.

Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

But it was not long before a violent wind (called a northeaster) swept down from the island.

Three months later, we continued our sailing onboard an Alexandrian ship that had spent the winter at the island. It had the Twin Brothers as its figurehead.

Three days later, Paul called the leaders of the Jews together. When they assembled, he told them, "Brothers, although I haven't done anything against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.

For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done:

They don't fear God.

As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham acted in faith when he stood in the presence of God, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't yet exist.

Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death?

Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Don't you realize, brothers for I am speaking to people who know the Law that the Law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive?

I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.

Now if I practice what I don't want to do, I am admitting that the Law is good.

For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.

But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate

But the righteousness that comes from faith says, "Do not say in your heart, "Who will go up to heaven?' (that is, to bring the Messiah down),

or "Who will go down into the depths?' (that is, to bring the Messiah back from the dead)."

But the person who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act in faith; and anything that is not done in faith is sin.

My one ambition is to proclaim the gospel where the name of the Messiah is not known, so I don't build on someone else's foundation.

Therefore, you don't lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus the Messiah to be revealed.