and was returning home, sitting in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

(Now the men who were traveling with him stood there speechless, because they heard the voice but saw no one.)

and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and place his hands on him so that he may see again.”

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

So he was staying with them, associating openly with them in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

At that time she became sick and died. When they had washed her body, they placed it in an upstairs room.

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

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

So Barnabas and Saul, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked.

They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

After they stopped speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me.