This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is, “Field of Blood.”)

Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

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.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

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.”

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.

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped all who heard about it.

Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

“We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.

They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.