Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.

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

And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.

The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them (for they were tentmakers by trade).

After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

When he said this, an argument began between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

When the horsemen came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

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

So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.