These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family.

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

All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

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.

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to 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.

But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

When it was decided we would sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’

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.

When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,