because you are especially familiar with all the customs and controversial issues of the Jews. Therefore I ask you to listen to me patiently.

But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar – not that I had some charge to bring against my own people.

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

But Saul became more and more capable, and was causing consternation among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too. (This took place during the feast of Unleavened Bread.)

When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)

But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.

He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews

The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.

Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker, well-versed in the scriptures.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

Some of the crowd concluded it was about Alexander because the Jews had pushed him to the front. Alexander, gesturing with his hand, was wanting to make a defense before the public assembly.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” for about two hours.

where he stayed for three months. Because the Jews had made a plot against him as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.