But many of those who had listened to the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

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.

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

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 some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,

When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

So Peter invited them in and entertained them as guests. On the next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them.

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”

As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

Then you’re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins’ into the wilderness some time ago?”

until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high honor.

They stood these men before the apostles, who prayed and placed their hands on them.

So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

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