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

After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

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

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”

while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated “son of encouragement”),

Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

God exalted him to his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

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 some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God, ‘and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.’

and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

The crowds were paying attention with one mind to what Philip said, as they heard and saw the miraculous signs he was performing.

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.