‘Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?

And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.

He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the ambush, he came and entered the barracks and told Paul.

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,

As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commanding officer, “May I say something to you?” The officer replied, “Do you know Greek?

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.

But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks.

the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.

When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.