Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.

“Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing.

And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to the Pharaoh.

God Delivers Israel by Moses

“But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months.

Saul Persecutes the Church

Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time.

And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”

This was done three times. And the object was taken up into heaven again.

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has at any time entered my mouth.’

Now this was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.

Herod’s Violence to the Church

Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church.

And now, indeed, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

So they stayed there a long time with the disciples.

And after they had stayed there for a time, they were sent back with greetings from the brethren to the apostles.

For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

When they asked him to stay a longer time with them, he did not consent,