He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet and then related how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell James and the brothers these things,” and then he left and went to another place.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

He began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law.

The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!”

Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up.

When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them

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.

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.

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

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

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

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.

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

The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

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.

but Saul learned of their plot against him. They were also watching the city gates day and night so that they could kill him.