For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

Then he had them forced away from the judgment seat.

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Look! Three men are looking for you.

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.

I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’

while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

“Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.