The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

So he was staying with them, associating openly with them in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me

But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.

So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.

But someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!”

So he replied, “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

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

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.

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

and when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.

Now in those days, when the disciples were growing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Hebraic Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and place his hands on him so that he may see again.”

About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”

They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.