Study Desk

Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphyl'ia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem;

So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: "Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.

Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

And as John was finishing his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

For David, after he had served the counsel of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;

So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

Now at Lystra there was a man sitting, who could not use his feet; he was a cripple from birth, who had never walked.

Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all that were in his house.

And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, with all his family.

Then he brought them up into his house, and set food before them; and he rejoiced with all his household that he had believed in God.

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and for three weeks he argued with them from the scriptures,

Then the brethren immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

for 'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your poets have said, 'For we are indeed his offspring.'

And he found a Jew named Aq'uila, a native of Pontus, lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them;