Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

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

So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

So Paul stood up, gestured with his hand and said, “Men of Israel, and you Gentiles who fear God, listen:

Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

Now in those days, when the disciples were growing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Hebraic Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’

More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.

The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

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

Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.

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

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

For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.