‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

“Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Then the eunuch said to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?”

Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?”

But Ananias replied, “Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,

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

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

“No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

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.”

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.

When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.