<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains<n id="1" /> in me &#8211; and I in him &#8211; bears<n id="2" /> much fruit,<n id="3" /> because apart from me you can accomplish<n id="4" /> nothing.

and said, &#8220;Men of Galilee, why do you stand here<n id="1" /> looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven<n id="2" /> will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Brothers,<n id="1" /> I can speak confidently<n id="2" /> to you about our forefather<n id="3" /> David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations<n id="1" /> at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement<n id="2" /> at what had happened to him.p>

And on the basis of faith in Jesus&#8217;<n id="1" /> name,<n id="2" /> his very name has made this man &#8211; whom you see and know &#8211; strong. The<n id="3" /> faith that is through Jesus<n id="4" /> has given him this complete health in the presence<n id="5" /> of you all.

<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" />

So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people,<n id="1" /> it will come to nothing,<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now in those<n id="1" /> days, when the disciples were growing in number,<n id="2" /> a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews<n id="3" /> against the native Hebraic Jews,<n id="4" /> because their widows<n id="5" /> were being overlooked<n id="6" /> in the daily distribution of food.<n id="7" />

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs<n id="1" /> that Moses handed down to us.&#8221;

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God<n id="1" /> made him move<n id="2" /> to this country where you now live.

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" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then an angel of the Lord<n id="1" /> said to Philip,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Get up and go south<n id="3" /> on the road that goes down from Jerusalem<n id="4" /> to Gaza.&#8221; (This is a desert<n id="5" /> road.)<n id="6" />

Now the passage of scripture the man<n id="1" /> was reading was this:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>He was led like a sheep to slaughter,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>so he didi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>not open his mouthb>.i>p>

But the Lord said to him, &#8220;Go, because this man is my chosen instrument<n id="1" /> to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.<n id="2" />

All<n id="1" /> who heard him were amazed and were saying, &#8220;Is this not<n id="2" /> the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging<n id="3" /> those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners<n id="4" /> to the chief priests?&#8221;

Cornelius<n id="1" /> replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Four days ago at this very hour, at three o&#8217;clock in the afternoon,<n id="3" /> I was praying in my house, and suddenly<n id="4" /> a man in shining clothing stood before me

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.

explaining and demonstrating<n id="1" /> that the Christ<n id="2" /> had to suffer and to rise from the dead,<n id="3" /> saying,<n id="4" /> &#8220;This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.&#8221;<n id="5" />

These Jews<n id="1" /> were more open-minded<n id="2" /> than those in Thessalonica,<n id="3" /> for they eagerly<n id="4" /> received<n id="5" /> the message, examining<n id="6" /> the scriptures carefully every day<n id="7" /> to see if these things were so.