and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.

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

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

After removing him, God raised up David their king. He testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’

They set a day to meet with him, and they came to him where he was staying in even greater numbers. From morning until evening he explained things to them, testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon’s Portico.

“For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

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.

But someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!”

When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.