Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’

Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

After two years had passed, Porcius Festus succeeded Felix, and because he wanted to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

Paul said in his defense, “I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”

Then Peter started speaking: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?”

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

Now as Peter was traveling around from place to place, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda.

On a day determined in advance, Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the judgment seat, and made a speech to them.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We stayed in this city for some days.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.