With many other words he testified ¹  and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse ²  generation!”

As he was going along, approaching ¹  Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed ²  around him.

Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused ¹  you, upsetting ²  your minds ³  by what they said, ⁴ 

Now ¹  three days after Festus ²  arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem ³  from Caesarea. ⁴ 

After ¹  we ²  tore ourselves away ³  from them, we put out to sea, ⁴  and sailing a straight course, ⁵  we came to Cos, ⁶  on the next day to Rhodes, ⁷  and from there to Patara. ⁸ 

Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship’s boat into the sea, pretending ¹  that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’ ¹ 

you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced: ¹ 

After ¹  the city officials ²  had received bail ³  from Jason and the others, they released them.

Some of the disciples from Caesarea ¹  came along with us too, and brought us to the house ²  of Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple from the earliest times, ³  with whom we were to stay.

Immediately ¹  something like scales ²  fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He ³  got up and was baptized,

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ¹  ritually unclean!’

At that very moment, ¹  three men sent to me from Caesarea ²  approached ³  the house where we were staying. ⁴ 

In ¹  Lystra ²  sat a man who could not use his feet, ³  lame from birth, ⁴  who had never walked.

While we remained there for a number of days, ¹  a prophet named Agabus ²  came down from Judea.

From there we put out to sea ¹  and sailed under the lee ²  of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

And a man lame ¹  from birth ²  was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day ³  so he could beg for money ⁴  from those going into the temple courts. ⁵ 

When ¹  Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued ²  me from the hand ³  of Herod ⁴  and from everything the Jewish people ⁵  were expecting to happen.”

There he ¹  found ²  a Jew named Aquila, ³  a native of Pontus, ⁴  who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius ⁵  had ordered all the Jews to depart from ⁶  Rome. ⁷  Paul approached ⁸  them,

You killed ¹  the Originator ²  of life, whom God raised ³  from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses! ⁴