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

But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

They said, “Cornelius the centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man, well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”

When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered.

So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

On a day determined in advance, Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the judgment seat, and made a speech to them.

As he was going along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

But Peter helped him up, saying, “Stand up. I too am a mere mortal.”

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

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

So do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow;

When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

When Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

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

In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked.

The proposal pleased the entire group, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a Gentile convert to Judaism from Antioch.

There was a great commotion, and some experts in the law from the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”