and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”

But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because he was paralyzed.

All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

Then Peter started speaking: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,

About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.

So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had completed their mission, bringing along with them John Mark.

So Barnabas and Saul, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.

And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

After they stopped speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me.

Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules:

but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.

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.