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

He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

The proposal pleased the entire group, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a Gentile convert to Judaism from Antioch.

But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me

Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”

But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Large numbers of those who had practiced magic collected their books and burned them up in the presence of everyone. When the value of the books was added up, it was found to total fifty thousand silver coins.

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.