So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.

When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!”

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. (Now they also had John as their assistant.)

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The proconsul summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”

praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

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.”

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

The word of God continued to spread, the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

So he replied, “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

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.

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’