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 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,

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.

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

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.

On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.