My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’

His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem.

And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.

“Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

But the officers who came for them did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,

And every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

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