He wrote<n id="1" /> a letter that went like this:<n id="2" />p>

This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.<n id="1" />

This same<n id="1" /> Moses they had rejected, saying, &#8216;<b><i>Who made you a ruler and judge?i>b>&#8217;<n id="2" /> God sent as both ruler and deliverer<n id="3" /> through the hand of the angel<n id="4" /> who appeared to him in the bush.

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed<n id="1" /> by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.<n id="2" />

but<n id="1" /> God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodyblock">Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt<n id="1" /> that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified<n id="2" /> both Lord<n id="3" /> and Christ.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

God exalted him<n id="1" /> to his right hand as Leader<n id="2" /> and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.<n id="3" />

but Paul insisted<n id="1" /> that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia<n id="2" /> and had not accompanied them in the work.

Paul called<n id="1" /> one of the centurions<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;Take this young man to the commanding officer,<n id="3" /> for he has something to report to him.&#8221;

This man was seized<n id="1" /> by the Jews and they were about to kill him,<n id="2" /> when I came up<n id="3" /> with the detachment<n id="4" /> and rescued him, because I had learned that he was<n id="5" /> a Roman citizen.<n id="6" />

For we have found<n id="1" /> this man to be a troublemaker,<n id="2" /> one who stirs up riots<n id="3" /> among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader<n id="4" /> of the sect of the Nazarenes.<n id="5" />

And on the basis of faith in Jesus&#8217;<n id="1" /> name,<n id="2" /> his very name has made this man &#8211; whom you see and know &#8211; strong. The<n id="3" /> faith that is through Jesus<n id="4" /> has given him this complete health in the presence<n id="5" /> of you all.

After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census,<n id="1" /> and incited people to follow him in revolt.<n id="2" /> He too was killed, and all who followed him were scattered.

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs<n id="1" /> that Moses handed down to us.&#8221;

For the people who live in Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize<n id="1" /> him,<n id="2" /> and they fulfilled the sayings<n id="3" /> of the prophets that are read every Sabbath by condemning<n id="4" /> him.<n id="5" />

Paul wanted Timothy<n id="1" /> to accompany him, and he took<n id="2" /> him and circumcised<n id="3" /> him because of the Jews who were in those places,<n id="4" /> for they all knew that his father was Greek.<n id="5" />

So the centurion<n id="1" /> took him and brought him to the commanding officer<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;The prisoner Paul called<n id="3" /> me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.&#8221;

when he said,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>Go to this people and say,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>You will keep on hearing,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>but will never understand,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and you will keep on looking,i>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>but will never perceiveb>.i>p>

shouting, &#8220;Men of Israel,<n id="1" /> help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law,<n id="2" /> and this sanctuary!<n id="3" /> Furthermore<n id="4" /> he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple<n id="5" /> and made this holy place ritually unclean!&#8221;<n id="6" />

Then Festus<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;King Agrippa,<n id="2" /> and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace<n id="3" /> petitioned<n id="4" /> me both in Jerusalem<n id="5" /> and here,<n id="6" /> shouting loudly<n id="7" /> that he ought not to live any longer.