For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us<n id="1" /> not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules:<n id="2" />

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few<n id="1" /> prominent<n id="2" /> Greek women and men.

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything,<n id="1" /> because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> they heard<n id="2" /> this they became enraged<n id="3" /> and began to shout,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Great is Artemis<n id="5" /> of the Ephesians!&#8221;

So because these facts<n id="1" /> are indisputable,<n id="2" /> you must keep quiet<n id="3" /> and not do anything reckless.<n id="4" />

A man named Ananias,<n id="1" /> a devout man according to the law,<n id="2" /> well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Regarding all the things I have been accused of by the Jews, King Agrippa,<n id="1" /> I consider myself fortunate that I am about to make my defense before you today,

They took soundings<n id="1" /> and found the water was twenty fathoms<n id="2" /> deep; when they had sailed a little farther<n id="3" /> they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms<n id="4" /> deep.

<p class="bodytext">Paul<n id="1" /> lived<n id="2" /> there two whole years in his own rented quarters<n id="3" /> and welcomed<n id="4" /> all who came to him,

All the people,<n id="1" /> from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying, &#8220;This man is the power of God that is called &#8216;Great.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />

He<n id="1" /> was a devout, God-fearing man,<n id="2" /> as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people<n id="3" /> and prayed to God regularly.

<p class="bodytext">So Paul stood<n id="1" /> before the Areopagus and said, &#8220;Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious<n id="2" /> in all respects.<n id="3" />

When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him,<n id="1" /> bringing many serious<n id="2" /> charges that they were not able to prove.<n id="3" />

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent<n id="1" /> storm continued to batter us,<n id="2" /> we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.<n id="3" />p>

And how is it that each one of us hears them<n id="1" /> in our own native language?<n id="2" />

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit,<n id="1" /> replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Rulers of the people and elders,<n id="3" />

None of the rest dared to join them,<n id="1" /> but the people held them in high honor.<n id="2" />

Yet the Most High<n id="1" /> does not live in houses made by human hands,<n id="2" /> as the prophet says,p>

Some<n id="1" /> devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation<n id="2" /> over him.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now after some days had passed, the Jews plotted<n id="1" /> together to kill him,