Then Felix, who understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, adjourned their hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.”

But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship’s boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,

But when they had ordered them to go outside the council, they began to confer with one another,

When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped all who heard about it.

Great fear gripped the whole church and all who heard about these things.

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

When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.

until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.

Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:

When they read it aloud, the people rejoiced at its encouragement.

But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she did not open the gate, but ran back in and told them that Peter was standing at the gate.

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!”