“Regarding all the things I have been accused of by the Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate that I am about to make my defense before you today,

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body also will live in hope,

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

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.

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.

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

And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage,

With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.

When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped all who heard about it.

Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

But Simon replied, “You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”