But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying,

So the lame man paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.

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

They stood these men before the apostles, who prayed and placed their hands on them.

Philip went down to the main city of Samaria and began proclaiming the Christ to them.

and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”

Then, after they had fasted and prayed and placed their hands on them, they sent them off.

Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.

He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet and then related how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell James and the brothers these things,” and then he left and went to another place.

take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law.

Then they cast lots for them, and the one chosen was Matthias; so he was counted with the eleven apostles.

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

So they seized them and put them in jail until the next day (for it was already evening).

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.

But get up, go down, and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”

As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.

When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.