After he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.

as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to make arrests there and bring the prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.

And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.’

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.

Paul replied, “I pray to God that whether in a short or a long time not only you but also all those who are listening to me today could become such as I am, except for these chains.”

We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days.

when he said, ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

ruin and misery are in their paths,

Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?

Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, and do this before unbelievers?

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Do we not have the right to financial support?

and all ate the same spiritual food,

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.