Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,

And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

So the disciples, each in accordance with his financial ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know –

But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.