So there was<n id="1" /> great joy<n id="2" /> in that city.p>

<p class="bodytext">At<n id="1" /> that time<n id="2" /> a great disturbance<n id="3" /> took place concerning the Way.<n id="4" />

So those who accepted<n id="1" /> his message<n id="2" /> were baptized, and that day about three thousand people<n id="3" /> were added.<n id="4" />p>

<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" />

At that time<n id="1" /> she became sick<n id="2" /> and died. When they had washed<n id="3" /> her body,<n id="4" /> they placed it in an upstairs room.

<t /><p class="bodytext">About that time King Herod<n id="1" /> laid hands on<n id="2" /> some from the church to harm them.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra,<n id="1" /> to Iconium,<n id="2" /> and to Antioch.<n id="3" />

At daybreak<n id="1" /> the magistrates<n id="2" /> sent their police officers,<n id="3" /> saying, &#8220;Release those men.&#8221;

After he had gone through those regions<n id="1" /> and spoken many words of encouragement<n id="2" /> to the believers there,<n id="3" /> he came to Greece,<n id="4" />

we said farewell<n id="1" /> to one another.<n id="2" /> Then<n id="3" /> we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.<n id="4" />

This<n id="1" /> became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language<n id="2" /> they called that field<n id="3" /> <i>Hakeldamai>, that is, &#8220;Field of Blood.&#8221;)

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>Even on my servants,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>both men and women,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesyb>.i><n id="2" />p>

At<n id="1" /> that time<n id="2" /> they made an idol in the form of a calf,<n id="3" /> brought<n id="4" /> a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing<n id="5" /> in the works of their hands.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">About noon<n id="1" /> the next day, while they were on their way and approaching<n id="2" /> the city, Peter went up on the roof<n id="3" /> to pray.

At<n id="1" /> that hour of the night he took them<n id="2" /> and washed their wounds;<n id="3" /> then<n id="4" /> he and all his family<n id="5" /> were baptized right away.<n id="6" />

Since I could not see because of<n id="1" /> the brilliance<n id="2" /> of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of<n id="3" /> those who were with me.

<p class="bodytext">Now in the region around that place<n id="1" /> were fields belonging to the chief official<n id="2" /> of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,<n id="1" /> the God of our forefathers,<n id="2" /> has glorified<n id="3" /> his servant<n id="4" /> Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected<n id="5" /> in the presence of Pilate after he had decided<n id="6" /> to release him.

And Saul agreed completely with killing<n id="1" /> him.p><t /><p class="bodytext">Now on that day a great<n id="2" /> persecution began<n id="3" /> against the church in Jerusalem,<n id="4" /> and all<n id="5" /> except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions<n id="6" /> of Judea and Samaria.

On that very night before Herod was going to bring him out for trial,<n id="1" /> Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while<n id="2" /> guards in front of the door were keeping watch<n id="3" /> over the prison.