And I spoke of Your testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed.

"Therefore whoever who will confess Me before men, I also will confess Him before My Father who is in heaven.

and requested from him letters [of authority] to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he should find any who were of the Way, both men or women, he might bring them, having been bound, to Jerusalem.

But when some became hardened and disbelieving, speaking evil against the Way before the multitude, he withdrew from them and separated the disciples, each day debating in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

Now there arose during that time a serious disturbance concerning the Way.

they who swear by the propitiation of Samaria, and who say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, Your god, O Beersheba, lives; and they shall fall, and shall not rise again.

And many will follow after their debaucheries, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

For [we] have found this man [to] be a plague, and [one] causing discord among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the Nazarenes sect,

For there must also be sects among you, in order that those who are approved may become recognized among you.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master, the [One] having bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall show us His way, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you murdered by hanging upon a cross.

saying, 'I am the God of your fathers--the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses was trembling and was not bold enough not look closely.

And he said, 'The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice from His mouth.

And God said again to Moses, Thus shall you say to the sons of Israel: The Lord God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is My name forever, and My memorial to all generations.

O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel our fathers, preserve these things in the thoughts of the heart of Your people forever, and direct their hearts toward You.

I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, how unceasingly I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day,

For Moses said to the fathers, 'The LORD our God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.

Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and his successors, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.

To Him all the prophets bear witness, [that] through His name, everyone believing in Him shall receive forgiveness of sins."

Therefore, having obtained help from God, until this day I stand, witnessing both to common [people] and great [people], saying nothing except the things which both the prophets and Moses spoke of as being about to happen,

"Do you believe the prophets, King Agrippa? I know that you believe."

And having appointed for him a day, many came to him at his house, to whom he was explaining and solemnly testifying to the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning till evening.

as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, who have been since the world began,

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."

You search the Scriptures, because you think [that] in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about Me.

I do not receive glory from men.

I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you have hoped.

But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them was revealing when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories which were to follow:

And I fell before his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "See [that you do] not! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

Now after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent to them, saying, "Men and brothers, if there is by you a word of encouragement for the people, speak."

Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, thus also you do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

The law and the prophets [were] until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone enters forcibly into it.

Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found the [One] about whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the Prophets--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets,