Though<n id="1" /> they found<n id="2" /> no basis<n id="3" /> for a death sentence,<n id="4" /> they asked Pilate to have him executed.

But you rejected<n id="1" /> the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

He<n id="1" /> found favor<n id="2" /> with<n id="3" /> God and asked that he could<n id="4" /> find a dwelling place<n id="5" /> for the house<n id="6" /> of Jacob.

Calling for lights, the jailer<n id="1" /> rushed in and fell down<n id="2" /> trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul,<n id="1" /> they urged Festus<n id="2" /> to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush<n id="3" /> to kill him along the way.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled<n id="1" /> forty years.

When I was in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed<n id="2" /> me about him,<n id="3" /> asking for a sentence of condemnation<n id="4" /> against him.

And a man lame<n id="1" /> from birth<n id="2" /> was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called &#8220;the Beautiful Gate&#8221; every day<n id="3" /> so he could beg for money<n id="4" /> from those going into the temple courts.<n id="5" />

and requested letters from him to the synagogues<n id="1" /> in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way,<n id="2" /> either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners<n id="3" /> to Jerusalem.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Now Herod<n id="1" /> was having an angry quarrel<n id="2" /> with the people of Tyre<n id="3" /> and Sidon.<n id="4" /> So they joined together<n id="5" /> and presented themselves before him. And after convincing<n id="6" /> Blastus, the king&#8217;s personal assistant,<n id="7" /> to help them,<n id="8" /> they asked for peace,<n id="9" /> because their country&#8217;s food supply was provided by the king&#8217;s country.