Study Desk

So I immediately sent for you, and it was good of you to come. So now we are all in the presence of God to hear everything you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Peter began to speak: “Now I truly understand that God doesn’t show favoritism,

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the devil, because God was with him.

God raised up this man on the third day and caused him to be seen,

not by all the people, but by us whom God appointed as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.

For they heard them speaking in other tongues and declaring the greatness of God.

The apostles and the brothers and sisters who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call impure.’

If, then, God gave them the same gift that he also gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I possibly hinder God?”

When they heard this they became silent. And they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has given repentance resulting in life even to the Gentiles.”

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.

The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

But the word of God flourished and multiplied.

Arriving in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their assistant.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said: “Fellow Israelites, and you who fear God, listen!

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, made the people prosper during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm.