The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

And they paid close attention to him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.

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

From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.

he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking.

We put out to sea from Troas and sailed a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry.”

They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.

for a crowd of people followed them, screaming, “Away with him!”

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.

He said to them, “You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.