Acts 10:37

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,

News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

You are witnesses of these things.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

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.”

to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.

With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,

When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”

John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized;

Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);