So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than people.

Then he said to the council, “Men of Israel, pay close attention to what you are about to do to these men.

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because he was paralyzed.

But Peter helped him up, saying, “Stand up. I too am a mere mortal.”

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

At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying, “Release those men.”

Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, “you will hear him.”

and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?