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" />

Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner,<n id="1" /> by the sea.&#8217;

and said to them, &#8220;Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?&#8221;<n id="1" /> They replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;No, we have not even<n id="3" /> heard that there is a Holy Spirit.&#8221;

Then you&#8217;re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion<n id="1" /> and led the four thousand men of the &#8216;Assassins&#8217;<n id="2" /> into the wilderness<n id="3" /> some time ago?&#8221;<n id="4" />

They did not find me arguing<n id="1" /> with anyone or stirring up a crowd<n id="2" /> in the temple courts<n id="3" /> or in the synagogues<n id="4" /> or throughout the city,<n id="5" />

After two years<n id="1" /> had passed, Porcius Festus<n id="2" /> succeeded Felix,<n id="3" /> and because he wanted to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.<n id="4" />p>

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul,<n id="1" /> they urged Festus<n id="2" /> to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush<n id="3" /> to kill him along the way.

When I was in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed<n id="2" /> me about him,<n id="3" /> asking for a sentence of condemnation<n id="4" /> against him.

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 tongues spreading out like a fire<n id="1" /> appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech.<n id="1" />

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch.<n id="1" /> So<n id="2" /> for a whole year Barnabas and Saul<n id="3" /> met with the church and taught a significant number of people.<n id="4" /> Now it was in Antioch<n id="5" /> that the disciples were first called Christians.<n id="6" />p>

Moses said, &#8216;<i><b>The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothersb>. <b>You must obeyb>i><n id="1" /> <b><i>him in everything he tells youi>b>.<n id="2" />

Paul replied, &#8220;I pray to God that whether in a short or a long time<n id="1" /> not only you but also all those who are listening to me today could become such as I am, except for these chains.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then when Paul noticed<n id="1" /> that part of them were Sadducees<n id="2" /> and the others Pharisees,<n id="3" /> he shouted out in the council,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection<n id="5" /> of the dead!&#8221;

Then he fell<n id="1" /> to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, &#8220;Lord, do not hold this sin against them!&#8221;<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> he had said this, he died.<n id="4" />

Then Paul<n id="1" /> went back upstairs,<n id="2" /> and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them<n id="3" /> a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

Paul replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I did not realize,<n id="2" /> brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, &#8216;<b><i>You must not speak evil about a ruler of your peoplei>b>.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

But Festus,<n id="1" /> wanting to do the Jews a favor, asked Paul, &#8220;Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be tried<n id="2" /> before me there on these charges?&#8221;<n id="3" />

They took soundings<n id="1" /> and found the water was twenty fathoms<n id="2" /> deep; when they had sailed a little farther<n id="3" /> they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms<n id="4" /> deep.