On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through<n id="1" /> the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

and came<n id="1" /> and apologized to them. After<n id="2" /> they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly<n id="3" /> to leave the city.

<p class="bodytext">At<n id="1" /> that time<n id="2" /> a great disturbance<n id="3" /> took place concerning the Way.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">While we remained there for a number of days,<n id="1" /> a prophet named Agabus<n id="2" /> came down from Judea.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense<n id="1" /> that I now<n id="2" /> make to you.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;While doing this very thing,<n id="1" /> as I was going<n id="2" /> to Damascus with authority and complete power<n id="3" /> from the chief priests,

Then the soldiers cut the ropes<n id="1" /> of the ship&#8217;s boat and let it drift away.<n id="2" />p>

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors,<n id="1" /> saying to Abraham, &#8216;<b><i>And in your descendantsi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>all the nationsi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>of the earth will be blessedi>b>.&#8217;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen<n id="1" /> went as far as<n id="2" /> Phoenicia,<n id="3" /> Cyprus,<n id="4" /> and Antioch,<n id="5" /> speaking the message<n id="6" /> to no one but Jews.

There he<n id="1" /> found<n id="2" /> a Jew named Aquila,<n id="3" /> a native of Pontus,<n id="4" /> who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius<n id="5" /> had ordered all the Jews to depart from<n id="6" /> Rome.<n id="7" /> Paul approached<n id="8" /> them,

<t /><p class="bodytext">So the next day Agrippa<n id="1" /> and Bernice came with great pomp<n id="2" /> and entered the audience hall,<n id="3" /> along with the senior military officers<n id="4" /> and the prominent men of the city. When Festus<n id="5" /> gave the order,<n id="6" /> Paul was brought in.

but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea,<n id="1" /> and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God,<n id="2" /> performing deeds consistent with<n id="3" /> repentance.

I have experienced<n id="1" /> help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except<n id="2" /> what the prophets and Moses said<n id="3" /> was going to happen:

When the local people<n id="1" /> saw the creature hanging from Paul&#8217;s<n id="2" /> hand, they said to one another, &#8220;No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself<n id="3" /> has not allowed him to live!&#8221;<n id="4" />

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

In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk,<n id="1" /> for it is only nine o&#8217;clock in the morning.<n id="2" />

<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" />

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>

But during the night an angel of the Lord<n id="1" /> opened<n id="2" /> the doors of the prison,<n id="3" /> led them out,<n id="4" /> and said,