Lexicon :: Strong's G2228 - ē

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Fellow Israelites, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

After they had Peter and John stand before them, they began to question them: “By what power or in what name have you done this? ”

Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

For there was not a needy person among them because all those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the proceeds of what was sold,

Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than people.

“So in the present case, I tell you, stay away from these men and leave them alone. For if this plan or this work is of human origin, it will fail;

“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

“Heaven is my throne,

and the earth my footstool.

What sort of house will you build for me?

says the Lord,

or what will be my resting place?

The eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about ​— ​himself or someone else? ”

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner, but God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean.

“ ‘No, Lord! ’ I said. ‘For nothing impure or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.

“Since, then, we are God’s offspring, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.

As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or of a serious crime, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews.

so that even facecloths or aprons[fn] that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.

“I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.

“In every way I’ve shown you that it is necessary to help the weak by laboring like this and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party got up and argued vehemently, “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him? ”[fn]

I found out that the accusations were concerning questions of their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or imprisonment.

“They didn’t find me arguing with anyone or causing a disturbance among the crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or anywhere in the city.

“Or let these men here state what wrongdoing they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

When he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea. The next day, seated at the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought in.

“I answered them that it is not the Roman custom to give someone up[fn] before the accused faces the accusers and has an opportunity for a defense against the charges.

and when they had left they talked with each other and said, “This man is not doing anything to deserve death or imprisonment.”

But the centurion paid attention to the captain and the owner of the ship rather than to what Paul said.

They expected that he would begin to swell up or suddenly drop dead. After they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Then they said to him, “We haven’t received any letters about you from Judea. None of the brothers has come and reported or spoken anything evil about you.