(Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

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

Then Peter took hold of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’

With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.

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 as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,

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

So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.