He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.

At that time a great disturbance took place concerning the Way.

Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

While they were staying there many days, Festus explained Paul’s case to the king to get his opinion, saying, “There is a man left here as a prisoner by Felix.

Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Now send men to Joppa and summon a man named Simon, who is called Peter.

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

We went on board a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to various ports along the coast of the province of Asia and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.

Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

So the commanding officer came and asked Paul, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” He replied, “Yes.”

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.”

because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”