While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage,

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.

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

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

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

but Saul learned of their plot against him. They were also watching the city gates day and night so that they could kill him.

But there were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks too, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus.

A report about them came to the attention of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

So the disciples, each in accordance with his financial ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

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!”

When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them.

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!

but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,