But Peter said to him, &#8220;May your silver perish with you,<n id="1" /> because you thought you could acquire<n id="2" /> God&#8217;s gift with money!

Then the commanding officer<n id="1" /> came up and arrested<n id="2" /> him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains;<n id="3" /> he<n id="4" /> then asked who he was and what<n id="5" /> he had done.

<p class="bodytext">Now while Peter was puzzling over<n id="1" /> what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon&#8217;s house was<n id="2" /> and approached<n id="3" /> the gate.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus<n id="1" /> so as not to spend time<n id="2" /> in the province of Asia,<n id="3" /> for he was hurrying<n id="4" /> to arrive in Jerusalem,<n id="5" /> if possible,<n id="6" /> by the day of Pentecost.