Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia,

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family.

The proposal pleased the entire group, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a Gentile convert to Judaism from Antioch.

When they had entered Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were there.

And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

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

Then they cast lots for them, and the one chosen was Matthias; so he was counted with the eleven apostles.

and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.

And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people were brought to the Lord.

After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech.

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.

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

As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’