So he was staying with them, associating openly with them in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

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

On a day determined in advance, Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the judgment seat, and made a speech to them.

So Barnabas and Saul, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

Then when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was greatly astounded at the teaching about the Lord.

When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.

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

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.

but said farewell to them and added, “I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.