Lexicon :: Strong's G5037 - te

“So those servants went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests.[fn]

“They love the place of honor at banquets, the front seats in the synagogues,

Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and offered him a drink.

After the priests[fn] had assembled with the elders and agreed on a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a stick, offered him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down.”

They hurried off and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the manger.

“But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

“There will be violent earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

When daylight came, the elders[fn] of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought him before their Sanhedrin.

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends.[fn] Previously, they had been enemies.

“and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him.

After making a whip out of cords, he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables.

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”[fn]

A high wind arose, and the sea began to churn.

I wrote the first narrative, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

When they arrived, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying: Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters[fn] ​— ​the number of people who were together was about a hundred twenty ​— ​and said,

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them.

“Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

“Therefore, since he has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what should we do? ”

With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt[fn] generation! ”

Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles.

Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts,

and they recognized that he was the one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. So they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.

When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.

“For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on all of them.

Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers ​— ​multitudes of both men and women.

But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out, and said,

As[fn] the captain of the temple police and the chief priests heard these things, they were baffled about them, wondering what would come of this.

He said to them, “Men of Israel, be careful about what you’re about to do to these men.

Every day in the temple, and in various homes, they continued teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

So the word of God spread, the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly in number, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, seized him, and took him to the Sanhedrin.

“The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other? ’

Saul agreed with putting him to death.

On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

The crowds were all paying attention to what Philip said, as they listened and saw the signs he was performing.

But when they believed Philip, as he proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.

So, after they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

and was sitting in his chariot on his way home, reading the prophet Isaiah aloud.

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me? ” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

“But get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”