saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name. Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood on us!”

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 look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.

But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this preliminary hearing I may have something to write.

Then they cast lots for them, and the one chosen was Matthias; so he was counted with the eleven apostles.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

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

And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.

On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.

And they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

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

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

Then he said to the council, “Men of Israel, pay close attention to what you are about to do to these men.

But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

When they heard these things, they became furious and ground their teeth at him.

But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.