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

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

(For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)

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

As you can verify for yourself, not more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

When his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.

They also bestowed many honors, and when we were preparing to sail, they gave us all the supplies we needed.

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know –

When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,

other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them: ‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”

He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.