saying, &#8220;We gave<n id="1" /> you strict orders<n id="2" /> not to teach in this name.<n id="3" /> Look,<n id="4" /> you have filled Jerusalem<n id="5" /> with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man&#8217;s blood<n id="6" /> on us!&#8221;

One of them, named Agabus, got up<n id="1" /> and predicted<n id="2" /> by the Spirit that a severe<n id="3" /> famine<n id="4" /> was about to come over the whole inhabited world.<n id="5" /> (This<n id="6" /> took place during the reign of Claudius.)<n id="7" />

Now<n id="1" /> look, the hand of the Lord is against<n id="2" /> you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!&#8221; Immediately mistiness<n id="3" /> and darkness came over<n id="4" /> him, and he went around seeking people<n id="5" /> to lead him by the hand.

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>so that the rest of humanityi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>may seek the Lord,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>namely,i>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>all the Gentilesi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>I have called to be my own,i>b>&#8217;<n id="4" /> <b><i>says the Lord,i>b><n id="5" /> <i>who makes these thingsi>

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window,<n id="1" /> was sinking<n id="2" /> into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak<n id="3" /> for a long time. Fast asleep,<n id="4" /> he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

<t /><p class="bodytext">We went on ahead<n id="1" /> to the ship and put out to sea<n id="2" /> for Assos,<n id="3" /> intending<n id="4" /> to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way.<n id="5" /> He<n id="6" /> himself was intending<n id="7" /> to go there by land.<n id="8" />

But I have nothing definite<n id="1" /> to write to my lord<n id="2" /> about him.<n id="3" /> Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa,<n id="4" /> so that after this preliminary hearing<n id="5" /> I may have something to write.

Then<n id="1" /> they cast lots for them, and the one chosen was Matthias;<n id="2" /> so he was counted with the eleven apostles.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

And tongues spreading out like a fire<n id="1" /> appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>And I will perform wonders in the skyi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>abovei>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and miraculous signsi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>on the earth below,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>blood and fire and clouds of smokeb>.i>p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time<n id="1" /> for prayer,<n id="2" /> at three o&#8217;clock in the afternoon.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">On the next day,<n id="1" /> their rulers, elders, and experts in the law<n id="2" /> came together<n id="3" /> in Jerusalem.<n id="4" />

And they called them in and ordered<n id="1" /> them not to speak or teach at all in the name<n id="2" /> of Jesus.

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign<n id="1" /> of healing had been performed,<n id="2" /> was over forty years old.p>

The God of our forefathers<n id="1" /> raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.<n id="2" />

Then he said to the council,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Men of Israel,<n id="2" /> pay close attention to<n id="3" /> what you are about to do to these men.

But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed<n id="1" /> Moses<n id="2" /> aside, saying, &#8216;<b><i>Who madei>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>you a ruler and judge over us?i>b>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When they heard these things, they became furious<n id="1" /> and ground their teeth<n id="2" /> at him.

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