While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon’s Portico.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

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

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’

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

All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

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.

On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

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

So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

About him all the prophets testify, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.

But they said to her, “You’ve lost your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was Peter, and they kept saying, “It is his angel!”

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,