So they<n id="1" /> proposed two candidates:<n id="2" /> Joseph called Barsabbas (also called Justus) and Matthias.

<p class="bodytext">When they had brought them, they stood them before the council,<n id="1" /> and the high priest questioned<n id="2" /> them,

They stood these men before the apostles, who prayed<n id="1" /> and placed<n id="2" /> their hands on them.

After<n id="1" /> making Peter and John<n id="2" /> stand in their midst, they began to inquire, &#8220;By what power or by what name<n id="3" /> did you do this?&#8221;

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Go and stand in the temple courts<n id="1" /> and proclaim<n id="2" /> to the people all the words of this life.&#8221;

(Now the men<n id="1" /> who were traveling with him stood there speechless,<n id="2" /> because they heard the voice but saw no one.)<n id="3" />

Or these men here<n id="1" /> should tell what crime<n id="2" /> they found me guilty of<n id="3" /> when I stood before the council,<n id="4" />

When his accusers stood up, they did not charge<n id="1" /> him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.<n id="2" />

And now I stand here on trial<n id="1" /> because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,<n id="2" />

He<n id="1" /> jumped up,<n id="2" /> stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts<n id="3" /> with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

&#8220;We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them,<n id="1" /> we found no one inside.&#8221;

They brought forward false witnesses who said, &#8220;This man does not stop saying things against this holy place<n id="1" /> and the law.<n id="2" />

<b><i>But the Lord said to him,i>b> &#8216;<i><b>Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy groundb>.i><n id="1" />

But Stephen,<n id="1" /> full<n id="2" /> of the Holy Spirit, looked intently<n id="3" /> toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing<n id="4" /> at the right hand of God.

&#8220;Look!&#8221; he said.<n id="1" /> &#8220;I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!&#8221;

Then he fell<n id="1" /> to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, &#8220;Lord, do not hold this sin against them!&#8221;<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> he had said this, he died.<n id="4" />

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water,<n id="1" /> and Philip baptized<n id="2" /> him.

<p class="bodytext">So Paul stood<n id="1" /> before the Areopagus and said, &#8220;Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious<n id="2" /> in all respects.<n id="3" />

When they had stretched him out for the lash,<n id="1" /> Paul said to the centurion<n id="2" /> standing nearby, &#8220;Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen<n id="3" /> without a proper trial?&#8221;<n id="4" />