After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and attracted a following. That man also perished, and all his partisans were scattered.

Every day in the temple complex, and in various homes, they continued teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

Seven Chosen to Serve

In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; Isaac did the same with Jacob, and Jacob with the 12 patriarchs.

“As he was approaching the age of 40, he decided to visit his brothers, the Israelites.

The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he was approaching to look at it, the voice of the Lord came:

They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

God’s Real Tabernacle

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David.

“Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Saul the Persecutor

Saul agreed with putting him to death. On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.

The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the sound but seeing no one.

Then Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

He was unable to see for three days and did not eat or drink.

In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him so he can regain his sight.”

And after taking some food, he regained his strength.

Saul Proclaiming the Messiah

Saul was with the disciples in Damascus for some days.

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

but their plot became known to Saul. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,

Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that He had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

In those days she became sick and died. After washing her, they placed her in a room upstairs.

And Peter stayed on many days in Joppa with Simon, a leather tanner.

Peter’s Vision

The next day, as they were traveling and nearing the city, Peter went up to pray on the housetop about noon.