When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped all who heard about it.

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.

“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.

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

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which in translation means Dorcas). She was continually doing good deeds and acts of charity.

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,

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

About him all the prophets testify, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message.

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,