<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>You have made known to me the paths of life;i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>you will make me full of joy with your presenceb>.i>&#8217;<n id="1" />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" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then they returned to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> from the mountain<n id="2" /> called the Mount of Olives<n id="3" /> (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day&#8217;s journey<n id="4" /> away).

In<n id="1" /> past<n id="2" /> generations he allowed all the nations<n id="3" /> to go their own ways,

I<n id="1" /> persecuted this Way<n id="2" /> even to the point of death,<n id="3" /> tying up<n id="4" /> both men and women and putting<n id="5" /> them in prison,

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.

Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, &#8220;Look, there is water! What is to stop me<n id="1" /> from being baptized?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then Felix,<n id="1" /> who understood the facts<n id="2" /> concerning the Way<n id="3" /> more accurately,<n id="4" /> adjourned their hearing,<n id="5" /> saying, &#8220;When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.&#8221;<n id="6" />

about noon along the road, Your Majesty,<n id="1" /> I saw a light from heaven,<n id="2" /> brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around<n id="3" /> me and those traveling with me.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then an angel of the Lord<n id="1" /> said to Philip,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Get up and go south<n id="3" /> on the road that goes down from Jerusalem<n id="4" /> to Gaza.&#8221; (This is a desert<n id="5" /> road.)<n id="6" />

Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, but<n id="1" /> went on his way rejoicing.<n id="2" />

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" />

But Barnabas took<n id="1" /> Saul,<n id="2" /> brought<n id="3" /> him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, that<n id="4" /> the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly<n id="5" /> in the name of Jesus.

and said, &#8220;You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing,<n id="1" /> you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness &#8211; will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?<n id="2" />

She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out,<n id="1" /> &#8220;These men are servants<n id="2" /> of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way<n id="3" /> of salvation.&#8221;<n id="4" />

He had been instructed in<n id="1" /> the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm<n id="2" /> he spoke and taught accurately the facts<n id="3" /> about Jesus, although he knew<n id="4" /> only the baptism of John.

He began to speak out fearlessly<n id="1" /> in the synagogue,<n id="2" /> but when Priscilla and Aquila<n id="3" /> heard him, they took him aside<n id="4" /> and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

But when<n id="1" /> some were stubborn<n id="2" /> and refused to believe, reviling<n id="3" /> the Way<n id="4" /> before the congregation, he left<n id="5" /> them and took the disciples with him,<n id="6" /> addressing<n id="7" /> them every day<n id="8" /> in the lecture hall<n id="9" /> of Tyrannus.

But I confess this to you, that I worship<n id="1" /> the God of our ancestors<n id="2" /> according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law<n id="3" /> and that is written in the prophets.

So Ananias departed and entered the house, placed<n id="1" /> his hands on Saul<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came here,<n id="3" /> has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.&#8221;<n id="4" />