But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

but Saul learned of their plot against him. They were also watching the city gates day and night so that they could kill him.

So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

But Saul (also known as Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at him

But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

When the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. When he learned that he was from Cilicia,

“While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,

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

Now Herod was having an angry quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they joined together and presented themselves before him. And after convincing Blastus, the king’s personal assistant, to help them, they asked for peace, because their country’s food supply was provided by the king’s country.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’

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?’

Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied, “What is it, Lord?” The angel said to him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.

Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?”

After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of exhortation for the people, speak it.”

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.