Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell<n id="1" /> and fastened their feet in the stocks.<n id="2" />p>

He<n id="1" /> immediately took<n id="2" /> soldiers and centurions<n id="3" /> and ran down to the crowd.<n id="4" /> When they saw<n id="5" /> the commanding officer<n id="6" /> and the soldiers, they stopped beating<n id="7" /> Paul.

<p class="bodytext">Now in the region around that place<n id="1" /> were fields belonging to the chief official<n id="2" /> of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

For some time ago<n id="1" /> Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He<n id="2" /> was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.<n id="3" />

This is the man who was in the congregation<n id="1" /> in the wilderness<n id="2" /> with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors,<n id="3" /> and he<n id="4" /> received living oracles<n id="5" /> to give to you.<n id="6" />

saying to Aaron, &#8216;<b><i>Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypti>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>&#8211; we do not know what has happened to him!i>b>&#8217;<n id="2" />

with respect to Jesus from Nazareth,<n id="1" /> that<n id="2" /> God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He<n id="3" /> went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil,<n id="4" /> because God was with him.<n id="5" />

After removing him, God<n id="1" /> raised up<n id="2" /> David their king. He testified about him:<n id="3" /> &#8216;<b><i>I have found Davidi>b><n id="4" /> the son of Jesse <b><i>to be a man after my hearti>b>,<n id="5" /> who will accomplish everything I want him to do.&#8217;<n id="6" />

When Apollos<n id="1" /> wanted to cross over to Achaia,<n id="2" /> the brothers encouraged<n id="3" /> him<n id="4" /> and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he<n id="5" /> assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,

After the city secretary<n id="1" /> quieted the crowd, he said, &#8220;Men of Ephesus, what person<n id="2" /> is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper<n id="3" /> of the temple of the great Artemis<n id="4" /> and of her image that fell from heaven?<n id="5" />

&#8220;Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures<n id="1" /> just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn<n id="2" /> from these worthless<n id="3" /> things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth,<n id="4" /> the sea, and everything that is in them.