As I stared<n id="1" /> I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles,<n id="2" /> and wild birds.<n id="3" />

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus<n id="1" /> from the dead, never<n id="2" /> again to be<n id="3" /> in a state of decay, God<n id="4" /> has spoken in this way: &#8216;<b><i>I will give youi>b><n id="5" /> <b><i>the holy and trustworthy promisesi>b><n id="6" /> <b><i>made to Davidi>b>.&#8217;<n id="7" />

As they went through the towns,<n id="1" /> they passed on<n id="2" /> the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem<n id="3" /> for the Gentile believers<n id="4" /> to obey.<n id="5" />

Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds<n id="1" /> of all the prisoners came loose.

<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" />

Therefore we are sending<n id="1" /> Judas and Silas<n id="2" /> who will tell you these things themselves in person.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> he had said these things, he knelt down<n id="2" /> with them all and prayed.

While they were screaming<n id="1" /> and throwing off their cloaks<n id="2" /> and tossing dust<n id="3" /> in the air,

Then the soldiers cut the ropes<n id="1" /> of the ship&#8217;s boat and let it drift away.<n id="2" />p>

When they opposed him<n id="1" /> and reviled him,<n id="2" /> he protested by shaking out his clothes<n id="3" /> and said to them, &#8220;Your blood<n id="4" /> be on your own heads! I am guiltless!<n id="5" /> From now on I will go to the Gentiles!&#8221;

so that when even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body<n id="1" /> were brought<n id="2" /> to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.<n id="3" />

But some itinerant<n id="1" /> Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name<n id="2" /> of the Lord Jesus over those who were possessed by<n id="3" /> evil spirits, saying, &#8220;I sternly warn<n id="4" /> you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.&#8221;

They have been informed about you &#8211; that you teach all the Jews now living<n id="1" /> among the Gentiles to abandon<n id="2" /> Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children<n id="3" /> or live<n id="4" /> according to our customs.

both Jews and proselytes,<n id="1" /> Cretans and Arabs &#8211; we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!&#8221;<n id="2" />

and they began selling<n id="1" /> their property<n id="2" /> and possessions and distributing the proceeds<n id="3" /> to everyone, as anyone had need.

&#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;

But they covered their ears,<n id="1" /> shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.

In it<n id="1" /> were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles<n id="2" /> of the earth and wild birds.<n id="3" />

When they had accomplished<n id="1" /> everything that was written<n id="2" /> about him, they took him down<n id="3" /> from the cross<n id="4" /> and placed him<n id="5" /> in a tomb.

<p class="bodytext">As Paul and Barnabas<n id="1" /> were going out,<n id="2" /> the people<n id="3" /> were urging<n id="4" /> them to speak about these things<n id="5" /> on the next Sabbath.