(Now there were about twelve men in all.)

And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” for about two hours.