But God raised<n id="1" /> him from the dead,

So Paul left the Areopagus.<n id="1" />

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, &#8216;What God has made clean, you must not consider<n id="1" /> ritually unclean!&#8217;

I will rescue<n id="1" /> you from your own people<n id="2" /> and from the Gentiles, to whom<n id="3" /> I am sending you

Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship&#8217;s boat into the sea, pretending<n id="1" /> that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now there was a man in Caesarea<n id="1" /> named Cornelius, a centurion<n id="2" /> of what was known as the Italian Cohort.<n id="3" />

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> the circumcised believers<n id="2" /> took issue with<n id="3" /> him,

<t /><p class="bodytext">After this<n id="1" /> Paul<n id="2" /> departed from<n id="3" /> Athens<n id="4" /> and went to Corinth.<n id="5" />

When the governor<n id="1" /> had read<n id="2" /> the letter,<n id="3" /> he asked<n id="4" /> what province he was from.<n id="5" /> When he learned<n id="6" /> that he was from Cilicia,<n id="7" />

When the local people<n id="1" /> saw the creature hanging from Paul&#8217;s<n id="2" /> hand, they said to one another, &#8220;No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself<n id="3" /> has not allowed him to live!&#8221;<n id="4" />

Then they prayed,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Lord, you know the hearts of all. Show us which one of these two you have chosen

<b><i>Every personi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removedi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>from the peoplei>b>.&#8217;<n id="3" />

angry<n id="1" /> because they were teaching the people and announcing<n id="2" /> in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest&#8217;s family.<n id="1" />

but if<n id="1" /> it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found<n id="2" /> fighting against God.&#8221; He convinced them,<n id="3" />

As he was going along, approaching<n id="1" /> Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed<n id="2" /> around him.

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because<n id="1" /> he was paralyzed.

The voice<n id="1" /> spoke to him again, a second time, &#8220;What God has made clean, you must not consider<n id="2" /> ritually unclean!&#8221;<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In<n id="1" /> Lystra<n id="2" /> sat a man who could not use his feet,<n id="3" /> lame from birth,<n id="4" /> who had never walked.

Simeon<n id="1" /> has explained<n id="2" /> how God first concerned himself<n id="3" /> to select<n id="4" /> from among the Gentiles<n id="5" /> a people for his name.