Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

“Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

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

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

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.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”

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

But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

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

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!

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

But Saul became more and more capable, and was causing consternation among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to associate with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too. (This took place during the feast of Unleavened Bread.)