“Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense that I now make to you.”

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,

So he replied, “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

While he was with them, he declared, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me.

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

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

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

The father of Publius lay sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and after praying, placed his hands on him and healed him.

So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’

So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

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.

The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

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

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,