Study Desk

and made him our Leader and Savior. Then God gave him a place at his right side, so that the people of Israel would turn back to him and be forgiven.

We are here to tell you about all this, and so is the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to everyone who obeys God.

When the council members heard this, they became so angry that they wanted to kill the apostles.

So I advise you to stay away from these men. Leave them alone. If what they are planning is something of their own doing, it will fail.

So they talked some men into saying, "We heard Stephen say terrible things against Moses and God!"

God said to Abraham, "Every son in each family must be circumcised to show that you have kept your agreement with me." So when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him. Later, Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons.

and rescued him from all his troubles. God made him so wise that the Egyptian king Pharaoh thought highly of him. The king even made Joseph governor over Egypt and put him in charge of everything he owned.

He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them. He even made them leave their babies outside, so they would die.

One day he saw an Egyptian mistreating one of them. So he rescued the man and killed the Egyptian.

The next day Moses saw two of his own people fighting, and he tried to make them stop. He said, "Men, you are both Israelites. Why are you so cruel to each other?"

Instead, you carried the tent where the god Molech is worshiped, and you took along the star of your god Rephan. You made those idols and worshiped them. So now I will have you carried off beyond Babylonia."

Simon noticed that the Spirit was given only when the apostles placed their hands on the people. So he brought money

Simon said, "Please pray to the Lord, so that what you said won't happen to me."

So Philip left. An important Ethiopian official happened to be going along that road in his chariot. He was the chief treasurer for Candace, the Queen of Ethiopia. The official had gone to Jerusalem to worship

So Philip began at this place in the Scriptures and explained the good news about Jesus.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice that said, "Saul! Saul! Why are you so cruel to me?"

"Who are you?" Saul asked. "I am Jesus," the Lord answered. "I am the one you are so cruel to.

and he has seen a vision. He saw a man named Ananias coming to him and putting his hands on him, so that he could see again."

Everyone who heard Saul was amazed and said, "Isn't this the man who caused so much trouble for those people in Jerusalem who worship in the name of Jesus? Didn't he come here to arrest them and take them to the chief priests?"

He was always arguing with the Jews who spoke Greek, and so they tried to kill him.