But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.’

When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.

The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed one.’

“Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”

Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’

He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

“‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord. Or where will my resting place be?

But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”

Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.

You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds.

Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

“We tell you the good news: What God promised our ancestors

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

“Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad.

Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.

A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.