“Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”

and he went back into the governor’s residence and said to Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

He then said to his disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

Now Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”

while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated “son of encouragement”),

Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

God exalted him to his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

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

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.