Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body also will live in hope,

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?”

Then Peter took hold of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated “son of encouragement”),

When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped all who heard about it.

Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

Then the commander of the temple guard went with the officers and brought the apostles without the use of force (for they were afraid of being stoned by the people).

But a Pharisee whose name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the council and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time.

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God, ‘and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.’

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,