He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”

while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.

All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!

So after Peter and John had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages as they went.

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to associate with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple.

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

Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’