So those who accepted<n id="1" /> his message<n id="2" /> were baptized, and that day about three thousand people<n id="3" /> were added.<n id="4" />p>

And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced<n id="1" /> these days.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees<n id="1" />),<n id="2" /> and they were filled with jealousy.<n id="3" />

But the officers<n id="1" /> who came for them<n id="2" /> did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,<n id="3" />

But Peter and the apostles replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;We must obey<n id="2" /> God rather than people.<n id="3" />

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy<n id="1" /> to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.<n id="2" />

The<n id="1" /> patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold<n id="2" /> him into Egypt. But<n id="3" /> God was with him,

But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening<n id="1" /> in the wall by lowering him in a basket.<n id="2" />p>

When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea<n id="1" /> and sent him away to Tarsus.p>

All<n id="1" /> those who lived in Lydda<n id="2" /> and Sharon<n id="3" /> saw him, and they<n id="4" /> turned<n id="5" /> to the Lord.p>

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy,<n id="1" /> and they began to contradict<n id="2" /> what Paul was saying<n id="3" /> by reviling him.<n id="4" />

But the Jews who refused to believe<n id="1" /> stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds<n id="2" /> against the brothers.

But when the apostles<n id="1" /> Barnabas and Paul heard about<n id="2" /> it, they tore<n id="3" /> their clothes and rushed out<n id="4" /> into the crowd, shouting,<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">So when they were dismissed,<n id="1" /> they went down to Antioch,<n id="2" /> and after gathering the entire group<n id="3" /> together, they delivered the letter.

<p class="bodytext">The crowd joined the attack<n id="1" /> against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes<n id="2" /> off Paul and Silas<n id="3" /> and ordered them to be beaten with rods.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">About midnight Paul and Silas were praying<n id="1" /> and singing hymns to God,<n id="2" /> and the rest of<n id="3" /> the prisoners were listening to them.

They replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Believe<n id="2" /> in the Lord Jesus<n id="3" /> and you will be saved, you and your household.&#8221;

At daybreak<n id="1" /> the magistrates<n id="2" /> sent their police officers,<n id="3" /> saying, &#8220;Release those men.&#8221;

The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas<n id="1" /> were Roman citizens<n id="2" />

When we heard this, both we and the local people<n id="1" /> begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.