Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

Now there was a man named Joseph who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man.

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven – the Son of Man.

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

“Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt!”

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

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

More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.

The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “This man is the Son of God.”

Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.

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

After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve came to me