For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The proconsul summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”

While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

So the centurion took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said, “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”

Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o’clock tonight,