that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.

Because they were afraid that we would run aground on the rocky coast, they threw out four anchors from the stern and wished for day to appear.

(Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.

But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

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.

“Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

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.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.