But so that I may not delay you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.”

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

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 the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

While he was with them, he declared, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me.

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.

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”

Then the commander of the temple guard went with the officers and brought the apostles without the use of force (for they were afraid of being stoned by the people).

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Then he fell to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he died.

The man replied, “How in the world can I, unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to associate with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple.

“No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

When Herod had searched for him and did not find him, he questioned the guards and commanded that they be led away to execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,

Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.