When he said this, an argument began between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.

So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.

because you are especially familiar with all the customs and controversial issues of the Jews. Therefore I ask you to listen to me patiently.

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar – not that I had some charge to bring against my own people.

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,

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

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.”

For there was no one needy among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them and bringing the proceeds from the sales

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

He kept back for himself part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge; he brought only part of it and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits. They were all being healed.

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

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

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

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.