So they proposed two candidates: Joseph called Barsabbas (also called Justus) and Matthias.

When they had brought them, they stood them before the council, and the high priest questioned them,

They stood these men before the apostles, who prayed and placed their hands on them.

After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.

“Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

(Now the men who were traveling with him stood there speechless, because they heard the voice but saw no one.)

Or these men here should tell what crime they found me guilty of when I stood before the council,

When his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,

He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

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

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

“Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Then he fell to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he died.

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby, “Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?”