So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place.”

While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity, I will send for you.”

So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall, along with the senior military officers and the prominent men of the city. When Festus gave the order, Paul was brought in.

“Men, I can see the voyage is going to end in disaster and great loss not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away).

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

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

And they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

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

(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

and was returning home, sitting in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest

As he was going along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

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

But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.

So he was staying with them, associating openly with them in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’