So now you and the council<n id="1" /> request the commanding officer<n id="2" /> to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine<n id="3" /> his case<n id="4" /> by conducting a more thorough inquiry.<n id="5" /> We are ready to kill him<n id="6" /> before he comes near this place.&#8221;<n id="7" />p>

While Paul<n id="1" /> was discussing<n id="2" /> righteousness, self-control,<n id="3" /> and the coming judgment, Felix<n id="4" /> became<n id="5" /> frightened and said, &#8220;Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity,<n id="6" /> I will send for you.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">So the next day Agrippa<n id="1" /> and Bernice came with great pomp<n id="2" /> and entered the audience hall,<n id="3" /> along with the senior military officers<n id="4" /> and the prominent men of the city. When Festus<n id="5" /> gave the order,<n id="6" /> Paul was brought in.

&#8220;Men, I can see the voyage is going to end<n id="1" /> in disaster<n id="2" /> and great loss not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.&#8221;<n id="3" />

So they began to leave,<n id="1" /> unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: &#8220;The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors<n id="2" /> through the prophet Isaiah

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then they returned to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> from the mountain<n id="2" /> called the Mount of Olives<n id="3" /> (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day&#8217;s journey<n id="4" /> away).

both Jews and proselytes,<n id="1" /> Cretans and Arabs &#8211; we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!&#8221;<n id="2" />

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed<n id="1" /> by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.<n id="2" />

And they called them in and ordered<n id="1" /> them not to speak or teach at all in the name<n id="2" /> of Jesus.

He<n id="1" /> found favor<n id="2" /> with<n id="3" /> God and asked that he could<n id="4" /> find a dwelling place<n id="5" /> for the house<n id="6" /> of Jacob.

(For the Spirit<n id="1" /> had not yet come upon<n id="2" /> any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)<n id="3" />

and was returning home, sitting<n id="1" /> in his chariot, reading<n id="2" /> the prophet Isaiah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats<n id="1" /> to murder<n id="2" /> the Lord&#8217;s disciples, went to the high priest

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

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues,<n id="1" /> saying, &#8220;This man is the Son of God.&#8221;<n id="2" />

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>

So he was staying with them, associating openly with them<n id="1" /> in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

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" />

and said, &#8216;Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity<n id="1" /> have been remembered before God.<n id="2" />

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, &#8216;What God has made clean, you must not consider<n id="1" /> ritually unclean!&#8217;