“Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

But a Pharisee whose name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the council and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time.

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

When he had seized him, he put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him. Herod planned to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

When the commanding officer had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and gestured to the people with his hand. When they had become silent, he addressed them in Aramaic,

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.

After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them, “Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.