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Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

…they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

“What shall we do with these men?” they asked. “It is clear to everyone living in Jerusalem that a remarkable miracle has occurred through them, and we cannot deny it.

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

On hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great fear came over all who heard what had happened.

About three hours later his wife also came in, unaware of what had happened.

When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.

“Men of Israel,” he said, “consider carefully what you are about to do to these men.

But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They disputed with Stephen,

They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?

So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”

“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.

Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.

He explained what had happened and sent them to Joppa.

…but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:

So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.

At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.

When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.

And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers

Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.

Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.

What then should we do? They will certainly hear that you have come.

Therefore do what we advise you. There are four men with us who have taken a vow.

The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.

Then I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ He told me. ‘There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’

You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’

On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”

A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside, and asked, “What do you need to tell me?”

The governor read the letter and asked what province Paul was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,

And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With authority from the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death, I cast my vote against them.

‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.

‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.

But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”

Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

…if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

…being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?

But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.

What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: