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.

But Saul (also known as Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at him

After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.

As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them

This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed,

Both the apostles and the elders met together to deliberate about this matter.

When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage,

But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”

After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?

For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.

But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

So the lame man paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

I have a hope in God (a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied, “What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.

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

Completely baffled, they said, “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?