The<n id="1" /> hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed<n id="2" /> turned<n id="3" /> to the Lord.

<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.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made<n id="1" /> an attempt to mistreat<n id="2" /> them and stone them,<n id="3" />

In<n id="1" /> past<n id="2" /> generations he allowed all the nations<n id="3" /> to go their own ways,

who<n id="1" /> have risked their lives<n id="2" /> for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">About midnight Paul and Silas were praying<n id="1" /> and singing hymns to God,<n id="2" /> and the rest of<n id="3" /> the prisoners were listening to them.

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

Even from among your own group<n id="1" /> men<n id="2" /> will arise, teaching perversions of the truth<n id="3" /> to draw the disciples away after them.

Since I wanted to know<n id="1" /> what charge they were accusing him of,<n id="2" /> I brought him down to their council.<n id="3" />

I found he<n id="1" /> was accused with reference to controversial questions<n id="2" /> about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.<n id="3" />

This<n id="1" /> became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language<n id="2" /> they called that field<n id="3" /> <i>Hakeldamai>, that is, &#8220;Field of Blood.&#8221;)

When this sound<n id="1" /> occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion,<n id="2" /> because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

<t /><p class="bodytext">While Peter and John<n id="1" /> were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander<n id="2" /> of the temple guard<n id="3" /> and the Sadducees<n id="4" /> came up<n id="5" /> to them,

And now, Lord, pay attention to<n id="1" /> their threats, and grant<n id="2" /> to your servants<n id="3" /> to speak your message<n id="4" /> with great courage,<n id="5" />

Thus<n id="1" /> they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

Now when the commander<n id="1" /> of the temple guard<n id="2" /> and the chief priests heard this report,<n id="3" /> they were greatly puzzled concerning it,<n id="4" /> wondering what this could<n id="5" /> be.

This was the one who exploited<n id="1" /> our people<n id="2" /> and was cruel to our ancestors,<n id="3" /> forcing them to abandon<n id="4" /> their infants so they would die.<n id="5" />

Our<n id="1" /> ancestors<n id="2" /> were unwilling to obey<n id="3" /> him, but pushed him aside<n id="4" /> and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

At<n id="1" /> that time<n id="2" /> they made an idol in the form of a calf,<n id="3" /> brought<n id="4" /> a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing<n id="5" /> in the works of their hands.<n id="6" />

When<n id="1" /> they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him,<n id="2" /> and the witnesses laid their cloaks<n id="3" /> at the feet of a young man named Saul.