&#8220;Go and stand in the temple courts<n id="1" /> and proclaim<n id="2" /> to the people all the words of this life.&#8221;

(Now the men<n id="1" /> who were traveling with him stood there speechless,<n id="2" /> because they heard the voice but saw no one.)<n id="3" />

In it<n id="1" /> were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles<n id="2" /> of the earth and wild birds.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">About that time King Herod<n id="1" /> laid hands on<n id="2" /> some from the church to harm them.<n id="3" />

Before<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> arrived, John<n id="3" /> had proclaimed a baptism for repentance<n id="4" /> to all the people of Israel.

Paul and Barnabas<n id="1" /> learned about it<n id="2" /> and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra<n id="3" /> and Derbe<n id="4" /> and the surrounding region.

but that we should write them a letter<n id="1" /> telling them to abstain<n id="2" /> from things defiled<n id="3" /> by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled<n id="4" /> and from blood.

Therefore, although God has overlooked<n id="1" /> such times of ignorance,<n id="2" /> he now commands all people<n id="3" /> everywhere to repent,<n id="4" />

but said farewell to<n id="1" /> them and added,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I will come back<n id="3" /> to you again if God wills.&#8221;<n id="4" /> Then<n id="5" /> he set sail from Ephesus,

While they were trying<n id="1" /> to kill him, a report<n id="2" /> was sent up<n id="3" /> to the commanding officer<n id="4" /> of the cohort<n id="5" /> that all Jerusalem was in confusion.<n id="6" />

They know,<n id="1" /> because they have known<n id="2" /> me from time past,<n id="3" /> if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party<n id="4" /> of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.<n id="5" />

And now I stand here on trial<n id="1" /> because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors,<n id="2" />

After we had sailed across the open sea<n id="1" /> off Cilicia and Pamphylia,<n id="2" /> we put in<n id="3" /> at Myra<n id="4" /> in Lycia.<n id="5" />

When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought<n id="1" /> they could carry out<n id="2" /> their purpose, so they weighed anchor<n id="3" /> and sailed close along the coast<n id="4" /> of Crete.

As we ran under the lee of<n id="1" /> a small island called Cauda,<n id="2" /> we were able with difficulty to get the ship&#8217;s boat<n id="3" /> under control.

(Now this man Judas<n id="1" /> acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed,<n id="2" /> and falling headfirst<n id="3" /> he burst open in the middle and all his intestines<n id="4" /> gushed out.

to assume the task<n id="1" /> of this service<n id="2" /> and apostleship from which Judas turned aside<n id="3" /> to go to his own place.&#8221;<n id="4" />

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.

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" />