While Peter was still thinking seriously about<n id="1" /> the vision, the Spirit said to him, &#8220;Look! Three men are looking for you.

While they were trying<n id="1" /> to kill him, a report<n id="2" /> was sent up<n id="3" /> to the commanding officer<n id="4" /> of the cohort<n id="5" /> that all Jerusalem was in confusion.<n id="6" />

So Peter went down<n id="1" /> to the men and said, &#8220;Here I am,<n id="2" /> the person you&#8217;re looking for. Why have you come?&#8221;

But the magician Elymas<n id="1" /> (for that is the way his name is translated)<n id="2" /> opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul<n id="3" /> away from the faith.

After Paul<n id="1" /> saw the vision, we attempted<n id="2" /> immediately to go over to Macedonia,<n id="3" /> concluding that God had called<n id="4" /> us to proclaim the good news to them.p>

so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around<n id="1" /> for him and find him,<n id="2" /> though he is<n id="3" /> not far from each one of us.

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,

Then the Lord told him, &#8220;Get up and go to the street called &#8216;Straight,&#8217;<n id="1" /> and at Judas&#8217; house look for a man from Tarsus named Saul. For he is praying,

Now<n id="1" /> look, the hand of the Lord is against<n id="2" /> you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!&#8221; Immediately mistiness<n id="3" /> and darkness came over<n id="4" /> him, and he went around seeking people<n id="5" /> to lead him by the hand.

But the Jews became jealous,<n id="1" /> and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace,<n id="2" /> they formed a mob<n id="3" /> and set the city in an uproar.<n id="4" /> They attacked Jason&#8217;s house,<n id="5" /> trying to find Paul and Silas<n id="6" /> to bring them out to the assembly.<n id="7" />