Acts 10:1

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

and they sat and watched him there.

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”

The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,

However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.

They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.

“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”

Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”

When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.

Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;