After<n id="1" /> he had destroyed<n id="2" /> seven nations<n id="3" /> in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.<n id="4" />

Therefore he also says in another psalm,<n id="1" /> &#8216;<b><i>You will not permit your Holy Onei>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>to experiencei>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>decayi>b>.&#8217;<n id="4" />

Watch out,<n id="1" /> then, that what is spoken about by<n id="2" /> the prophets does not happen to you:p>

and when they had spoken the word<n id="1" /> in Perga,<n id="2" /> they went down to Attalia.<n id="3" />

The brothers in Lystra<n id="1" /> and Iconium<n id="2" /> spoke well<n id="3" /> of him.<n id="4" />

He addressed<n id="1" /> both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue<n id="2" /> every Sabbath, attempting to persuade<n id="3" /> them.p>

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

But if you want anything in addition,<n id="1" /> it will have to be settled<n id="2" /> in a legal assembly.<n id="3" />

(Now there were many lamps<n id="1" /> in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)<n id="2" />

<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,

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts<n id="1" /> and were trying to kill me.

Agrippa<n id="1" /> said to Paul, &#8220;In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?&#8221;<n id="2" />

(We were in all two hundred seventy-six<n id="1" /> persons on the ship.)<n id="2" />

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts<n id="1" /> of the earth.&#8221;

&#8220;For it is written in the book of Psalms, &#8216;<b><i>Let his house become deserted,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>and let there be no one to live in iti>b>,&#8217;<n id="2" /> and &#8216;<b><i>Let another take his position of responsibilityi>b>.&#8217;<n id="3" />

Before it was sold,<n id="1" /> did it not<n id="2" /> belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money<n id="3" /> not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart?<n id="4" /> You have not lied to people<n id="5" /> but to God!&#8221;p>

But someone came and reported to them, &#8220;Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts<n id="1" /> and teaching<n id="2" /> the people!&#8221;

<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" />

So he replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather<n id="2" /> Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

But God turned away from them and gave them over<n id="1" /> to worship the host<n id="2" /> of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: &#8216;<b><i>It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrificesi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>forty years in the wilderness, was it,i>b><n id="4" /> <b><i>house of Israel?i>b>