And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

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

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

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

So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt – we do not know what has happened to him!’

The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!”