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Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas
Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city.
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Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.
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dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there.
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So there was great joy in that city.
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Simon the Sorcerer
Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,
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“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
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but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him.
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Peter’s Vision
About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
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“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was.
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They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
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On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.
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But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.
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The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles.
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The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.
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Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.
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But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day he and Barnabas left for Derbe.
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The Return to Antioch in Syria
They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,
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For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
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From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.
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On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.
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One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
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They brought them before the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar
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They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city.
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But other Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.
