However, Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

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

except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

After we had sailed across the open sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we put in at Myra in Lycia.

While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

The next day, because the commanding officer wanted to know the true reason Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole council to assemble. He then brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message.

Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

and when Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.

But the evil spirit replied to them, “I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”

especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

After the crew had hoisted it aboard, they used supports to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, thus letting themselves be driven along.

But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

All who believed were together and held everything in common,