and said in a loud voice, "Stand up straight on your feet!" The man jumped up and started walking around.

The whole group was silent as they heard Barnabas and Paul report all the miracles and wonders that God had performed through them among the Gentiles.

She did this for many days, until Paul became so upset that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" The spirit went out of her that very moment.

God was performing unusual miracles through Paul.

Even handkerchiefs and aprons he had used were taken to the sick, and their diseases were driven away, and the evil spirits would go out of them.

The many miracles and wonders that prove that I am an apostle were performed among you with much patience.

Does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do what the Law requires or because you hear the gospel and believe it?

At the same time God added his witness to theirs by performing all kinds of miracles and wonders and by distributing the gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

No, it is not Beelzebul, but God's Spirit, who gives me the power to drive out demons, which proves that the Kingdom of God has already come upon you.

But when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will be filled with power, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them.

There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.

The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge.

The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.

God revealed to these prophets that their work was not for their own benefit, but for yours, as they spoke about those things which you have now heard from the messengers who announced the Good News by the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things which even the angels would like to understand.

I hope to do so now. I would like to see you on my way to Spain, and be helped by you to go there, after I have enjoyed visiting you for a while.

And so Saul stayed with them and went all over Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.

He also talked and disputed with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to kill him.

Having been sent by the Holy Spirit, Barnabas and Saul went to Seleucia and sailed from there to the island of Cyprus.

When they arrived at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues. They had John Mark with them to help in the work.

They went on from Perga and arrived in Antioch in Pisidia, and on the Sabbath they went into the synagogue and sat down.

The apostles shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went on to Iconium.

When the apostles learned about it, they fled to the cities of Lystra and Derbe in Lycaonia and to the surrounding territory.

But when the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day he and Barnabas went to Derbe.

There they preached the message in Perga and then went to Attalia,

They traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia because the Holy Spirit did not let them preach the message in the province of Asia.

So they traveled right on through Mysia and went to Troas.

As soon as Paul had this vision, we got ready to leave for Macedonia, because we decided that God had called us to preach the Good News to the people there.

From there we went inland to Philippi, a city of the first district of Macedonia; it is also a Roman colony. We spent several days there.

As soon as night came, the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived, they went to the synagogue.

The men who were taking Paul went with him as far as Athens and then returned to Berea with instructions from Paul that Silas and Timothy should join him as soon as possible.

After this, Paul left Athens and went on to Corinth.

They arrived in Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He went into the synagogue and held discussions with the Jews.

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior of the province and arrived in Ephesus. There he found some disciples

He went through those regions and encouraged the people with many messages. Then he came to Achaia,

We sailed from Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and five days later we joined them in Troas, where we spent a week.

For I have an obligation to all peoples, to the civilized and to the savage, to the educated and to the ignorant.

I have complete confidence in the gospel; it is God's power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles.

You know that I did not hold back anything that would be of help to you as I preached and taught in public and in your homes.

And I have been made a servant of the church by God, who gave me this task to perform for your good. It is the task of fully proclaiming his message,

But the Lord stayed with me and gave me strength, so that I was able to proclaim the full message for all the Gentiles to hear; and I was rescued from being sentenced to death.