But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem.

But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the gates of the prison, and taking them out he said,

But the officers who came did not find them in the prison; and they returned and reported back,

saying, “We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside.”

But someone came and reported to them, “The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

But when they heard this, they were cut to the quick and intended to kill them.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.

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

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you may even be found fighting against God.”

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and argued with Stephen.

But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him.

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

“But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.

Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?

But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.

But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;

But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one impulse.

But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.

But when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

But Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a desert road.)

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him, but went on his way rejoicing.

But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he kept preaching the gospel to all the cities until he came to Caesarea.

but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.”

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.

But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he did to Your saints at Jerusalem;

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ.

but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.

When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were attempting to put him to death.

But when the brethren learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;

But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.”

But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself.”

But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am just a man.”

but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.

But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying,

But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.’

And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

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.

So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.

And he went out and continued to follow, and he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

When she recognized Peter’s voice, because of her joy she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, “It is his angel.”

But Peter continued knocking; and when they had opened the door, they saw him and were amazed.

But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had led him out of the prison. And he said, “Report these things to James and the brethren.” Then he left and went to another place.

But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.

But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him,

Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

But going on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

And while John was completing his course, he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

But God raised Him from the dead;

but He whom God raised did not undergo decay.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming.

But the Jews incited the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

But they shook off the dust of their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and embittered them against the brethren.

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

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their robes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

But while the disciples stood around him, he got up and entered the city. The next day he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.”

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are.”

but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

[But it seemed good to Silas to remain there.]

But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching with many others also, the word of the Lord.

But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

But Paul chose Silas and left, being committed by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek,

She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!”

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out.”

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

But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you again concerning this.”

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

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”