and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught a significant number of people. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them, “Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.

Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

But Saul (also known as Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at him

They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o’clock tonight,

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

When Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “We have experienced a lengthy time of peace through your rule, and reforms are being made in this nation through your foresight.

When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin – that is, the whole high council of the Israelites – and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.

So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had completed their mission, bringing along with them John Mark.

he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking.

But some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were possessed by evil spirits, saying, “I sternly warn you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

For we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause we can give to explain this disorderly gathering.”

While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity, I will send for you.”

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.