Now after some days had passed, the Jews plotted together to kill him,

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.

(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)

Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

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

After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar – not that I had some charge to bring against my own people.

As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.