And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

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

if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man – by what means this man was healed –

for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

When you examine him yourself, you will be able to learn from him about all these things we are accusing him of doing.”

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.”

We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

“No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors,

So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

We continued the voyage from Tyre and arrived at Ptolemais, and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.

But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.”

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.”

We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.

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.”

They replied, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.