Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God<n id="1" /> that it will be just as I have been told.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore be advised<n id="1" /> that this salvation from God<n id="2" /> has been sent to the Gentiles;<n id="3" /> they<n id="4" /> will listen!&#8221;p>

When this sound<n id="1" /> occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion,<n id="2" /> because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

For David says about him,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>I saw the Lord always in front of me,i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shakenb>.i>p>

So then, because<n id="1" /> he was a prophet and knew that God <i>had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendantsi><n id="2" /> <i>on his thronei>,<n id="3" />

David by foreseeing this<n id="1" /> spoke about the resurrection of the Christ,<n id="2" /> that <i>he was neither abandoned to Hadesi>,<n id="3" /> nor did his body<n id="4" /> <i>experiencei><n id="5" /> <i>decayi>.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodyblock">Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt<n id="1" /> that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified<n id="2" /> both Lord<n id="3" /> and Christ.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them,<n id="1" /> we found no one inside.&#8221;

But God spoke as follows: &#8216;Your<n id="1" /> <b><i>descendants will be foreignersi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred yearsi>b>.<n id="3" />

He thought his own people<n id="1" /> would understand that God was delivering them<n id="2" /> through him,<n id="3" /> but they did not understand.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Now when the apostles in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> heard that Samaria had accepted the word<n id="2" /> of God, they sent<n id="3" /> Peter and John to them.

<p class="bodytext">Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit<n id="1" /> was given through the laying on of the apostles&#8217; hands, offered them money,

But Peter said to him, &#8220;May your silver perish with you,<n id="1" /> because you thought you could acquire<n id="2" /> God&#8217;s gift with money!

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>In humiliationi>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>justice was taken from himb>.i><n id="2" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>Who can describe his posterity?i>b><n id="3" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>For his life was taken awayi>b><n id="4" /> <i><b>from the earthb>.i>&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

But Saul became more and more capable,<n id="1" /> and was causing consternation<n id="2" /> among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving<n id="3" /> that Jesus<n id="4" /> is the Christ.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When he arrived in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> he attempted to associate<n id="2" /> with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe<n id="3" /> that he was a disciple.

He<n id="1" /> commanded us to preach to the people and to warn<n id="2" /> them<n id="3" /> that he is the one<n id="4" /> appointed<n id="5" /> by God as judge<n id="6" /> of the living and the dead.

The<n id="1" /> circumcised believers<n id="2" /> who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished<n id="3" /> that<n id="4" /> the gift of the Holy Spirit<n id="5" /> had been poured out<n id="6" /> even on the Gentiles,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted<n id="1" /> the word of God.<n id="2" />

When he saw that this pleased the Jews,<n id="1" /> he proceeded to arrest Peter too. (This took place during the feast of Unleavened Bread.)<n id="2" />