Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you.

All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'

"You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: "He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

So since we are God's offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

He wrote a letter that went like this:

Agrippa said to Festus, "I would also like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he replied, "you will hear him."

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it."