In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

And on the basis of faith in Jesus’ name, his very name has made this man – whom you see and know – strong. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

Now a man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property.

When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered.

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

Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except, “The Lord’s will be done.”

At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

“For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his house become deserted, and let there be no one to live in it,’ and ‘Let another take his position of responsibility.’

and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has already chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear a command from his mouth,

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

But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets – that his Christ would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way.

After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, “We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.