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

From there we put out to sea and sailed under the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard,

When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

After this had happened, many of the people on the island who were sick also came and were healed.

All who heard him were amazed and were saying, “Is this not the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits. They were all being healed.

Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.

For unclean spirits, crying with loud shrieks, were coming out of many who were possessed, and many paralyzed and lame people were healed.

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.

The man replied, “How in the world can I, unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

But stand up and enter the city and you will be told what you must do.”

But Saul became more and more capable, and was causing consternation among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

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.

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.