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.

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They replied, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

Paul replied, “I did not realize, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.’”

The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked, “What is it that you want to report to me?”