Lexicon :: Strong's G2258 - ēn

While he was going, they were gazing into heaven, and suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them.

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.

“For he was one of our number and shared in this ministry.”

When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place.

Now there were Jews staying in Jerusalem, devout people from every nation under heaven.

“God raised him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by death.

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer.

Now all the believers were together and held all things in common.

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.

So they seized them and took them into custody until the next day since it was already evening.

with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family.

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 this sign of healing had been performed on a man over forty years old.

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God boldly.

Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him

“At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home for three months.

“So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

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.

Even Simon himself believed. And after he was baptized, he followed Philip everywhere and was amazed as he observed the signs and great miracles that were being performed.

(They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem

Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,

and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,

so he does not open his mouth.

He was unable to see for three days and did not eat or drink.

Saul was coming and going with them in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.

There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years.

In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated Dorcas). She was always doing good works and acts of charity.

There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment.

The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

“how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the devil, because God was with him.

But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks[fn] also, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.

for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And large numbers of people were added to the Lord.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.

As soon as he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many had assembled and were praying.

At daylight, there was a great commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. Together they presented themselves before him. After winning over Blastus, who was in charge of the king’s bedroom, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king’s country.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, a close friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.