known from long ago.

Then he had them forced away from the judgment seat.

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us – one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

We put out to sea from Troas and sailed a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

When the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. When he learned that he was from Cilicia,

Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,

so that when even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body were brought to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away).