Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

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

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

About him all the prophets testify, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Peter went out and followed him; he did not realize that what was happening through the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

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.”

They sent this letter with them: From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia, greetings!

The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

where he stayed for three months. Because the Jews had made a plot against him as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

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