When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.

But get up, go down, and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”

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

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.

and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.

The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.

Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house.

Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council.

When you examine him yourself, you will be able to learn from him about all these things we are accusing him of doing.”

So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, “you will hear him.”

“For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his house become deserted, and let there be no one to live in it,’ and ‘Let another take his position of responsibility.’

At once she collapsed at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

But Barnabas took Saul, brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.