which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified,<n id="1" /> without a crowd or a disturbance.<n id="2" />

But you rejected<n id="1" /> the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

They said, &#8220;Cornelius the centurion,<n id="1" /> a righteous<n id="2" /> and God-fearing man, well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation,<n id="3" /> was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message<n id="4" /> from you.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed<n id="1" /> a bay<n id="2" /> with a beach,<n id="3" /> where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

<p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish!i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>For I am doing a work in your days,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>a work you would never believe, even if someone tells youb>.i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered.<n id="1" />

So he stayed there<n id="1" /> a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.<n id="2" />p>

On a day determined in advance, Herod<n id="1" /> put on his royal robes,<n id="2" /> sat down on the judgment seat,<n id="3" /> and made a speech<n id="4" /> to them.

As he was going along, approaching<n id="1" /> Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed<n id="2" /> around him.

But Peter helped him up,<n id="1" /> saying, &#8220;Stand up. I too am a mere mortal.&#8221;<n id="2" />

I also heard a voice saying to me, &#8216;Get up, Peter; slaughter<n id="1" /> and eat!&#8217;

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

So do what<n id="1" /> we tell you: We have four men<n id="2" /> who have taken<n id="3" /> a vow;<n id="4" />

When<n id="1" /> I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance<n id="2" />

For we have found<n id="1" /> this man to be a troublemaker,<n id="2" /> one who stirs up riots<n id="3" /> among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader<n id="4" /> of the sect of the Nazarenes.<n id="5" />

When Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood<n id="1" /> and was putting it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

Not long after this, a hurricane-force<n id="1" /> wind called the northeaster<n id="2" /> blew down from the island.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In<n id="1" /> Lystra<n id="2" /> sat a man who could not use his feet,<n id="3" /> lame from birth,<n id="4" /> who had never walked.

The<n id="1" /> proposal pleased the entire group, so<n id="2" /> they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, with<n id="3" /> Philip,<n id="4" /> Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a Gentile convert to Judaism<n id="5" /> from Antioch.<n id="6" />

There was a great commotion,<n id="1" /> and some experts in the law<n id="2" /> from the party of the Pharisees stood up<n id="3" /> and protested strongly,<n id="4" /> &#8220;We find nothing wrong<n id="5" /> with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?&#8221;