With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

The crowds were paying attention with one mind to what Philip said, as they heard and saw the miraculous signs he was performing.

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.

All the people, from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called ‘Great.’”

saying, “Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

Then the eunuch said to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?”

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which in translation means Dorcas). She was continually doing good deeds and acts of charity.

And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying, “So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”

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!”

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”

When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews