All the people saw him walking and praising God,

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied, “Rulers of the people and elders,

None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high honor.

for a crowd of people followed them, screaming, “Away with him!”

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’

angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

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

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon’s Portico.

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

Then the commander of the temple guard went with the officers and brought the apostles without the use of force (for they were afraid of being stoned by the people).

But a Pharisee whose name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the council and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time.