This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.

which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

“For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his house become deserted, and let there be no one to live in it,’ and ‘Let another take his position of responsibility.’

“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

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

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

But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming (along with many others) the word of the Lord.

Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house.

After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “This man is the Son of God.”

After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

Paul lived there two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him,

When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.