<p class="bodytext">Paul looked directly<n id="1" /> at the council<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience<n id="3" /> before God to this day.&#8221;

Rather they had several points of disagreement<n id="1" /> with him about their own religion<n id="2" /> and about a man named Jesus<n id="3" /> who was dead, whom Paul claimed<n id="4" /> to be alive.

(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.

This same<n id="1" /> Moses they had rejected, saying, &#8216;<b><i>Who made you a ruler and judge?i>b>&#8217;<n id="2" /> God sent as both ruler and deliverer<n id="3" /> through the hand of the angel<n id="4" /> who appeared to him in the bush.

Paul said, &#8220;John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him,<n id="1" /> that is, in Jesus.&#8221;

A report<n id="1" /> about them came to the attention<n id="2" /> of the church in Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> and they sent Barnabas<n id="4" /> to Antioch.<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.

When<n id="1" /> they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him,<n id="2" /> and the witnesses laid their cloaks<n id="3" /> at the feet of a young man named Saul.

<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.

So now why are you putting God to the test<n id="1" /> by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke<n id="2" /> that neither our ancestors<n id="3" /> nor we have been able to bear?

A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem<n id="1" /> also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits.<n id="2" /> They<n id="3" /> were all<n id="4" /> being healed.p>

Even some of the provincial authorities<n id="1" /> who were his friends sent<n id="2" /> a message<n id="3" /> to him, urging him not to venture<n id="4" /> into the theater.

he said, &#8220;I will give you a hearing<n id="1" /> when your accusers arrive too.&#8221; Then<n id="2" /> he ordered that Paul<n id="3" /> be kept under guard in Herod&#8217;s palace.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the governor gestured for him to speak, Paul replied, &#8220;Because I know<n id="1" /> that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I confidently make my defense.<n id="2" />

and their bones<n id="1" /> were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money<n id="2" /> from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.p>

where he stayed<n id="1" /> for three months. Because the Jews had made<n id="2" /> a plot<n id="3" /> against him as he was intending<n id="4" /> to sail<n id="5" /> for Syria, he decided<n id="6" /> to return through Macedonia.<n id="7" />

So<n id="1" /> he got up<n id="2" /> and went. There<n id="3" /> he met<n id="4" /> an Ethiopian eunuch,<n id="5" /> a court official of Candace,<n id="6" /> queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He<n id="7" /> had come to Jerusalem to worship,<n id="8" />

But just as Paul was about to speak,<n id="1" /> Gallio said to the Jews, &#8220;If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy,<n id="2" /> I would have been justified in accepting the complaint<n id="3" /> of you Jews,<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Paul, after staying<n id="1" /> many more days in Corinth,<n id="2" /> said farewell to<n id="3" /> the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by<n id="4" /> Priscilla and Aquila.<n id="5" /> He<n id="6" /> had his hair cut off<n id="7" /> at Cenchrea<n id="8" /> because he had made a vow.<n id="9" />

If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint<n id="1" /> against someone, the courts are open<n id="2" /> and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another there.<n id="3" />