for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said,

saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”

This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

Now Peter continued knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were greatly astonished.

But the crowd began to shout, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.

But Saul (also known as Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at him

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

Therefore he also says in another psalm, ‘You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.’

Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

Then they passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia,

and when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

Both the apostles and the elders met together to deliberate about this matter.

The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,

Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too,

He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

So the churches were being strengthened in the faith and were increasing in number every day.

They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.