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

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.

Because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there. They hoped that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

“And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.

especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of joy with your presence.’

Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.