The man<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;How in the world can I,<n id="2" /> unless someone guides me?&#8221; So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

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.

So Peter<n id="1" /> invited them in and entertained them as guests.p> <p class="bodytext">On the next day he got up and set out<n id="2" /> with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa<n id="3" /> accompanied him.

who was with the proconsul<n id="1" /> Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. The proconsul<n id="2" /> summoned<n id="3" /> Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear<n id="4" /> the word of God.

The priest of the temple<n id="1" /> of Zeus,<n id="2" /> located just outside the city, brought bulls<n id="3" /> and garlands<n id="4" /> to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them.<n id="5" />

But after the disciples had surrounded him, he got up and went back<n id="1" /> into the city. On<n id="2" /> the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.<n id="3" />p>

But some people<n id="1" /> joined him<n id="2" /> and believed. Among them<n id="3" /> were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus,<n id="4" /> a woman<n id="5" /> named Damaris, and others with them.p>

Crispus, the president of the synagogue,<n id="1" /> believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it<n id="2" /> believed and were baptized.

If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint<n id="1" /> against someone, the courts are open<n id="2" /> and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another there.<n id="3" />

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

(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and<n id="1" /> they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)<n id="2" />

Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand<n id="1" /> the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

This man was seized<n id="1" /> by the Jews and they were about to kill him,<n id="2" /> when I came up<n id="3" /> with the detachment<n id="4" /> and rescued him, because I had learned that he was<n id="5" /> a Roman citizen.<n id="6" />

about noon along the road, Your Majesty,<n id="1" /> I saw a light from heaven,<n id="2" /> brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around<n id="3" /> me and those traveling with me.

We went on board<n id="1" /> a ship from Adramyttium<n id="2" /> that was about to sail to various ports<n id="3" /> along the coast of the province of Asia<n id="4" /> and put out to sea,<n id="5" /> accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian<n id="6" /> from Thessalonica.<n id="7" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">But Peter stood up<n id="1" /> with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them: &#8220;You men of Judea<n id="2" /> and all you who live in Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> know this<n id="4" /> and listen carefully to what I say.

<p class="bodytext">When they saw the boldness<n id="1" /> of Peter and John, and discovered<n id="2" /> that they were uneducated<n id="3" /> and ordinary<n id="4" /> men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against<n id="1" /> your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,<n id="2" />

This same<n id="1" /> Moses they had rejected, saying, &#8216;<b><i>Who made you a ruler and judge?i>b>&#8217;<n id="2" /> God sent as both ruler and deliverer<n id="3" /> through the hand of the angel<n id="4" /> who appeared to him in the bush.

The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers<n id="1" /> also went with me, and we entered the man&#8217;s house.