About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”

When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

About him all the prophets testify, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

When he had seized him, he put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him. Herod planned to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

But they said to her, “You’ve lost your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was Peter, and they kept saying, “It is his angel!”

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,

but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,

But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They replied, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

and when Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.

So after sending two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.

Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.

especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.