Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven

In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

David said about him: “‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.

Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin

The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people.

They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.

They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.

Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.

The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest.

Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with Stephen.

So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin.

To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.

They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’

After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David,

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.

But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.