for a crowd of people followed them, screaming, “Away with him!”

So when they were dismissed, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the entire group together, they delivered the letter.

When he said this, an argument began between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits. They were all being healed.

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

When Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

Then Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace petitioned me both in Jerusalem and here, shouting loudly that he ought not to live any longer.