All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’

Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

Then Peter started speaking: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

Then the eunuch said to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?”

Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

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.

When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?

I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met his accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the accusation.

When the local people saw the creature hanging from Paul’s hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself has not allowed him to live!”