After we sighted Cyprus and left it behind on our port side, we sailed on to Syria and put in at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)

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.

saying, “Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

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

The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking.

When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”

And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,

and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.

After this had happened, many of the people on the island who were sick also came and were healed.

and when Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.

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

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message.

But others jeered at the speakers, saying, “They are drunk on new wine!”

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.