Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.

Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!”

Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.

I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!’

They did so, sending their financial aid to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

Then, after they had fasted and prayed and placed their hands on them, they sent them off.

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas who will tell you these things themselves in person.

and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.

and when he arrived at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem and then went down to Antioch.

While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

When the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. When he learned that he was from Cilicia,

He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him.

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,