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He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

They all were continually united in prayer, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Now this man acquired a field with his unrighteous wages. He fell headfirst, his body burst open and his intestines spilled out.

beginning from the baptism of John until the day he was taken up from us—from among these, it is necessary that one become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

When this sound occurred, a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them: “Fellow Jews and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you and pay attention to my words.

“Brothers and sisters, I can confidently speak to you about the patriarch David: He is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants on his throne.

Seeing what was to come, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah: He was not abandoned in Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.

Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.

By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. So the faith that comes through Jesus has given him this perfect health in front of all of you.

In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets—that his Messiah would suffer.

Heaven must receive him until the time of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about through his holy prophets from the beginning.

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

The kings of the earth take their standand the rulers assemble togetheragainst the Lord and against his Messiah.

Now the entire group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but instead they held everything in common.

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property.

However, he kept back part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge, and brought a portion of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.