²¹ Then ^(A)I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.

² and asked him for letters ^(A)to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to ^(B)the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

²⁸ So the king took counsel and ^(A)made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. ^(B)Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” ²⁹ And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

¹⁴ But this I confess to you, that according to ^(A)the Way, which they call ^(B)a sect, ^(C)I worship ^(D)the God of our fathers, believing everything ^(E)laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

²³ About that time ^(A)there arose no little disturbance concerning ^(B)the Way.

^9 (A)But when some became stubborn and ^(B)continued in unbelief, speaking evil of ^(C)the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.^[a]

²⁵ He had been instructed in ^(A)the way of the Lord. And ^(B)being fervent in spirit,^[a] he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only ^(C)the baptism of John.