When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

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

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”

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.

Paul looked directly at the council and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”

“So,” he said, “let your leaders go down there with me, and if this man has done anything wrong, they may bring charges against him.”

When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.

Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied, “What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.

One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world. (This took place during the reign of Claudius.)

Now after all these things had taken place, Paul resolved to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. He said, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Now those who had been forced to scatter went around proclaiming the good news of the word.

saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and shared a meal with them.”

The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,

They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.

There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy.

He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

The city was filled with the uproar, and the crowd rushed to the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.

While they were staying there many days, Festus explained Paul’s case to the king to get his opinion, saying, “There is a man left here as a prisoner by Felix.