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All those who heard him were astonished and asked, “Isn’t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
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But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.
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So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.
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There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years.
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In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor.
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Peter stayed in Joppa for some time with a tanner named Simon.
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Cornelius Calls for Peter
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment.
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Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter.
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All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
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So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.
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One of them, named Agabus, stood up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world. (This happened during the reign of Claudius.)
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Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.
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They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,
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But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.
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Simon has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles.
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that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’—
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men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek.
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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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She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” At that moment the spirit left her.
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Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.
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There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
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But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law—settle the matter yourselves. I will not be a judge of such things.”
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Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures.
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On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
