All who believed were together and held everything in common,

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

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.

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’

But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.