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

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to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

So Paul said, “Into what then were you baptized?” “Into John’s baptism,” they replied.

So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.

So Peter stayed many days in Joppa with a man named Simon, a tanner.

The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

Then, after conferring with his council, Festus replied, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go!”

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

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.”

(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’

Paul lived there two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him,

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.