For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.

But Paul called out loudly, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!”

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place.”

“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.