The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there.

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

Then the commanding officer sent the young man away, directing him, “Tell no one that you have reported these things to me.”

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

Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.

When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.

But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this preliminary hearing I may have something to write.

But they said to her, “You’ve lost your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was Peter, and they kept saying, “It is his angel!”

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

“So,” he said, “let your leaders go down there with me, and if this man has done anything wrong, they may bring charges against him.”

As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus exclaimed loudly, “You have lost your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them,

But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this reason, to designate you in advance as a servant and witness to the things you have seen and to the things in which I will appear to you.

But while John was completing his mission, he said repeatedly, ‘What do you think I am? I am not he. But look, one is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet!’

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to send men chosen from among them, Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, leaders among the brothers, to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.

Paul, after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow.

But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”