Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Paul, after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow.

They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered.

Then he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him.

Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

But while John was completing his mission, he said repeatedly, ‘What do you think I am? I am not he. But look, one is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet!’

When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he assumed the prisoners had escaped.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet and then related how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell James and the brothers these things,” and then he left and went to another place.

We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.

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

and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”